Quotes about pro
proxy attentiveness understood
Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood. Tom Chatfield
prostitution process schizophrenic
How is it that we have sodomy protected under that due process but prostitution unprotected? It's schizophrenic. Tom Coburn
progress work-in-progress
I don't discuss works in progress ... Tom Clancy
problem solutions bossypants
Whatever the problem - be part of the solution Tina Fey
progress literature finance
Productivity-the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy-is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers. Tim Jackson
prophecy
You have to take Bible prophecy literally, just like everything else in the Bible. Tim LaHaye
productive-work focus busy
Focus on being productive instead of busy. Tim Ferriss
profound advice levels
Most of us are wiser than we may appear to be. … On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow one’s own advice. Sam Harris
promise ifs
If being recalled is the price for keeping one's promises, then so be it. Russell Pearce
promise proud done
One of the things I'm always proud of is 'Promises made, promises kept.' I've never ever not done what I've said I'm going to do.
procrastination caring unfinished-business
Unfinished business is our worst business. Perpetual procrastination must yield to perceptive preparation. Today we have a little more time to bless others-time to be kinder, more compassionate, quicker to thank and slower to scold, more generous in sharing, more gracious in caring. Russell M. Nelson
promise suffering progress
Suffering will always be there. You'll always have the poor. You have to own your own progress. It is true that because of the economy and the fear factor the president [Barack Obama] is able to execute a lot of promises that it would be difficult to deliver it not for the fear factor. It's funny. He's delivering on what he promised and we call it fear. Russell Simmons
programming adapted organisms
The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change. Ronald Fisher
progress language study
Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language. Roman Jakobson
promise mass fulfilled
History has shown that the masses have been quite receptive to the promises of authoritarians which are rarely if ever fulfilled, Ron Paul
procrastination thinking creative
I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done. Susan Orlean
problem desks treadmills
The biggest problem with working at a treadmill desk: the compulsion to announce constantly that you are working at a treadmill desk.
profound age active
The "times," "the age" what is that, but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times? Ralph Waldo Emerson
progress steps evolution
An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
progress routine evolution
The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive.
profound history causes
In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.
proud kind oddballs
I'd much rather be the oddball out than kind of create something of myself that I'm not proud of. Selena Gomez
problem should reflecting
In reflecting on our problems, we should include ourselves. Shunryu Suzuki
progress trying littles
After you have practiced for a while, you will realize that it is not possible to make rapid, extraordinary progress. Even though you try very hard, the progress you make is always little by little.
promise environmental care
We have to take care about nature as much as nature is taking care about us. Nature is very kind with us. And if you want to enjoy the gifts of nature and the promises of nature, we have to defer to nature and its needs, its rules, its norms. Shimon Peres
problem social solutions
Not only is privatizing Social Security not the solution to Social Security, it would exacerbate the problem. Shelley Berkley
problems-love etc love-of-money
The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us. Shelley Berman
promise breaking-promises
I like breaking the rules. Lexa Doig
progress cacophony wonder
The wonder is not that so much cacophony appears in our actual individual lives, but that there is any appearance of harmony and progression. Lewis Mumford
proud nannies states
If Singapore is a nanny state, then I am proud to have fostered one. Lee Kuan Yew
problem solve
As you solve one set of problems, new ones appear. That is part of the nature of life.
profession
Making movies is my profession. I like doing it a lot. Lawrence Bender
problem sometimes solutions
There are sometimes problems for which there is no immediate solution, and there are sometimes problems for which there is no solution, Lawrence Eagleburger