Quotes about roots
roots people insecurity
...we have more faith in what we imitate than in what we originate. We cannot derive a sense of absolute certitude from anything which has its roots in us. The most poignant sense of insecurity comes from standing alone and we are not alone when we imitate. It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay. Bruce Lee
roots names style
Jeet Kune Do: it's just a name; don't fuss over it. There's no such thing as a style if you understand the roots of combat.
roots knowing life-worth-living
I hunt everywhere for a life worth living and a knowledge worth knowing. Having roots nowhere, I have everywhere to go. Elif Safak
roots house paint
When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots. Edward Ruscha
roots people unhappy
Most people don't relate to and can't generate concern for something they don't encounter personally or feel personally affected by. People have to have the palpable negatives in their lives dissected for them in ways that let them understand the root causes of unhealthy, unhappy conditions in their lives and then be allowed to really see and feel the positive alternatives. Edward Norton
roots incentives profit
The incentive for business is not, and cannot, be anything other than the root incentive for all business: they must profit.
roots evil selfishness
Selfishness is the root of great evil. Richard G. Scott
roots soul chuck
You know Chuck, Buddy, and Elvis paved the road. The roots are deep inside us, it's the rhythm in our soul. Brian Wilson
roots evil selfishness
It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact. If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of. Bram Stoker
roots mind grows
The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included. Bodhidharma
roots church natural
Let's start with the church. As you know, it's my background, it's a natural setting for me and it's definitely my roots. Aretha Franklin
roots verbs prose
Root out all the "to be" verbs in your prose and bludgeon them until dead. No "It was" or "they are" or "I am." Don't let it be, make it happen. Barbara Kingsolver
roots broken long
A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong--if there is any root to life -because nowadays the family is broken up, and people don't live in the same place for very long. Arthur Miller
roots brazil
Brazil is where I have to be, where I have my roots. Clarice Lispector
roots squares square-roots
Square root of a cosine? How is that ever going to be useful? Aprilynne Pike
roots use adults
This is certainly the raunchiest, if you use that word, raunchy. The roots of Jim Henson, though, was adult comedy. Brian Henson
roots
Money is the root of all good. Ayn Rand
roots feelings examination
A person with faith does not question its roots, for he knows that if he subjected it to the critical examination of his intellect, he would end up without faith. The same thing can be said of any feeling. You can analyze any feeling to death, but when you do that, you end up without feeling and without a meaninful life. Alexander Lowen
roots evil catholic
The root of the whole evil lay, particularly in Schonerer's opinion, in the fact that the directing body of the Catholic Church was not in Germany, and that for this very reason alone it was hostile to the interests of our nationality. Adolf Hitler
roots joy putting-yourself-out-there
It's always nervewracking to put yourself out there. But it's the root of joy. Ann Brashares
roots evil debugging
Premature optimization is the root of all evil. Donald Knuth
roots evil debugging
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
roots government abet
The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it Colin Powell
roots mind patterns
The mind is complicated and you can't trace the roots of its processes, but there is something about mathematical and algorithmic patterns that I like to recognize in things. Aleksandar Hemon
roots tree branches
Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce. Alfred Lord Tennyson
roots evil tears
But even in a telephone booth evil can seep out of the receiver and we must cover it with a mattress, and then tear it from its roots and bury it, bury it. Anne Sexton
roots secret bigs
It draws it's strength, this big secret, from the same root from which I draw my strength, both the good and the bad, because in the end, they cannot be separated. Anne Rice
roots bait watches
Whenever I watch the beginning of Jimmy Fallon, I feel like I should sue the Roots for bait and switch. Andy Kindler
roots stuff delight
Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff. Alison Bechdel
roots holy-prophet world
Refusal to accept the flow of the world is the root of all misery. Devdutt Pattanaik
roots history people
One of the ways of helping to destroy a people is to tell them they don't have a history that they have no roots. Desmond Tutu
roots impact people
What we try to do as Elders is help those who are trying to change their own societies and communities for the better. We hope that by supporting the good work that is being done, especially at the grass roots, we can help to alleviate the suffering of human beings. That is our core mission - to draw attention to the impact that conflict, injustice and poverty have on ordinary people.
roots religion care
God does not care what good you did, but why you did it. He does not grade the fruit but probes the core and tests the root. Angelus Silesius