Quotes About Resistance

THE GIRL WAS TWENTY-THREE POUNDS OF NO! NO, BED! NO, SLEEP! No, no, no!

Resisting the pull of temptation, just as we fight the pull of gravity. And when we finally fall, it's always such a surprise.

We're all struggling to stay upright, Maura thought. Resisting the pull of temptation, just as we fight the pull of gravity. And when we finally fall, it's always such a surprise.

We're all struggling to stay upright, Maura thought. Resisting the pull of temptation, just as we fight the pull of gravity. And when we finally fall, it's always such a surprise. The

Those flawed in their nature have no control over themselves.

That's usually the case. Identify someone with a problem, and you'll be identifying someone who resists the suggestion that he has one. That's self-deception—the problem of not knowing and resisting the possibility that one has a problem.

when our hearts are at war, we not only invite failure, we invest in it.

As the mindset changes, so does the behavior, without having to prescribe the change. And where certain behaviors still need to be stipulated, the suggestions won't be systematically resisted. For these reasons, mindset change facilitates sustainable behavior change.

In fact, what obscures vision and exposes people to more risk is not an outward mindset, which stays fully alive to and aware of others, but an inward one, which turns its attention away from others while simultaneously provoking resistance.

A related reason why people resist making the most important move is that they think an outward mindset will make them soft when hard behavior is required. But this is a misunderstanding. As we've said, an outward mindset doesn't make people soft; it just makes them open, curious, and aware. Similarly, an inward mindset doesn't make people hard. In fact, people whose mindsets are inward often engage in behaviors that are softer than would actually be helpful.

Pleasure always means not to think about anything, to forget suffering even where it is shown. Basically it is helplessness. It is flight; not, as is asserted, flight from a wretched reality, but from the last remaining thought of resistance.

Never? That's a hard word when it comes to whisky.

Crawling out of the flophouse I saw the mayor stealing my junk I doth protest, citizen's arrest Now my body's in his trunk Where's the shadow government when you need it? Where's the shadow government? It's a bad, bad world!

The Third World War will not be unleashed by the great powers; it will break out first in the zones of famine and oppression.

I still can't manage to keep a journal, and people have been telling me to since the fourth grade.

I'm a person who does not like to journal; I don't like to sit down and write... I don't even like sending emails.

As a jumper, I try to defy gravity as long as I can. But no matter how far I jump, I'll always hit the earth eventually.

I have a fondness for junk food - it still calls me, sometimes.

I'm like the drunk in the bar who wants just one more for the road.

Oh, I try to stay as far away from karaoke as humanly possible!

As my blog editor knows all too well, I wasn't all that keen to enter the blogosphere world.

The biggest challenge I faced when I started playing in the 90s was my immediate family members were not very keen that I get into sport, leave alone cricket.

I mean he's a very famous director... they're not going to put their... and he's very tough, he doesn't like interference at all, so he kept them at bay.

In sales, a referral is the key to the door of resistance.