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Quotes About Existing

My adversaries were those with a traditional mind-set, the usual opponents of any idea "not invented here," those fearful that what I was trying to do threatened their existing programs and procurements.
~ Robert M. Gates
A case can be made out for both positions. What distances Keynes most obviously from the 'progressives' is his attitude to social justice. Keynes did not object (or object strongly) to the existing social order on the ground that it unfairly or unjustly distributed life-chances;
~ Robert Skidelsky
Architecture doesn't exist in isolation. It is, in effect, like joining an existing conversation. Architecture should be responsive to its context, purpose, and moment in time.
~ Robert Steinberg
I wouldn't say philosophy and theology are dead. Brain science doesn't invent new philosophies but it helps remind us which of our existing philosophies are more true.
~ David Brooks
To be successful today, you must touch base with reality. And the only reality that counts is what's already in the prospect's mind. To be creative, to create something that doesn't already exist in the mind, is becoming more and more difficult. If not impossible. The basic approach of positioning is not to create something new and different, but to manipulate what's already up there in the mind, to retie the connections that already exist.
~ Al Ries
Apostolic ministry is not just about founding new churches and movements; it is as much about the renewal of existing organizations, that is, helping the church retain its primal movemental nature and stay vibrant. And so it has ongoing relevance for established churches as well.
~ Alan Hirsch
The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.
~ William O. Douglas
Omaks võib nimetada alles seda, mis käes on.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
From a technical point of view, there seemed to me to be absolutely no reason why - with the existing technology - we couldn't do very high quality audio, because whereas the boom in digital graphics is ongoing, the boom in digital audio has already happened.
~ Thomas Dolby
A tapper sticks to existing routines. Whereas hoofing... a hoofer pushes the art form.
~ Savion Glover
With existing technology, we can enforce airport security without sacrificing our personal privacy.
~ Tom Udall
Despite claims by some to the contrary, we have heard numerous times in hearings and briefings by experts that existing technologies do not fully or effectively detect nuclear material.
~ John Linder
Sometimes an ethnographic inquiry will lead to new ways to use an existing technology or will generate new technologies.
~ Katie Hafner
Generally speaking, by the way, that is the moral of the opponents of violence in politics: they renounce violence when it comes to introducing changes in what already exists, but in defense of the existing order they will not stop at the most ruthless acts.
~ Leon Trotsky
God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
~ Giordano Bruno
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
~ Albert Einstein
La scoperta dell'energia atomica non ha creato un nuovo problema, ha solo reso più urgente la necessità di risolverne uno già esistente
~ Albert Einstein
For much the same reasons, arguments about the so-called redistribution of wealth are mistaken in assuming that the existing distribution is somehow the natural state of things, from which any deviation is unnatural, and hence morally undesirable.
~ Duncan J. Watts
The best of times is now.
~ Oprah Winfrey
We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we're learning from them.
~ Miguel de Icaza
A comprehensive marketing plan involves both online and offline efforts to use and broaden your existing platform to promote your book.
~ M. J. Rose
God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.
~ Millard Fillmore
I cannot imagine myself fitting into the existing curriculum. I am too self-willed for that and have had my own very definite ideas for a long time, very different from the existing ways, as to how architecture is to be taught.
~ Walter Gropius
There is a natural tendency for investors to devote a significant majority of their time to finding new ideas. After all, uncovering great companies selling at great prices is the lifeblood of successful investing. But in the never-ending quest for the next great idea, investors often give short shrift to their existing investments.
~ Whitney Tilson