Accord Quotes
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Pay no heed to those who tell you that they have relinquished place and power of their own accord, and from their love of quiet. For almost always they have been brought to this retirement by their insufficiency and against their will.
Francesco Guicciardini
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Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord.
Albert Einstein
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Like the Cubists before them, the abstractionists felt a beautiful thing in perceiving how the medium can, of its own accord, carry one into the unknown, that is to the discovery of new structures. What an inspiration the medium is..
Mark Rothko
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When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
Oscar Wilde
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come to realise that thoughts come and go of their own accord; that you are not your thoughts. You can watch as they appear in your mind, seemingly from thin air, and watch again as they disappear, like a soap bubble bursting. You come to the profound understanding that thoughts and feelings (including negative ones) are transient. They come and they go, and ultimately, you have a choice about whether to act on them or not.
Mark Williams
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That little word 'we' I mistrust and here's why: No man of another can say, 'He is I.' Behind all agreement lies something amiss. All seeming accord cloaks a lurking abyss.
Albert Einstein
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I think his greatest fault is his failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done. This is a great weakness in any man.
William Howard Taft
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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
Nikolai Gogol
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It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.
Francis Bacon
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If I had to choose a motto for myself, I would take this one — pure, dure, sûre, Pure, hard, certain — in other words: unalterable. I would express by this the ideal of the Strong, that which nothing brings down, nothing corrupts, nothing changes; those on whom one can count, because their life is order and fidelity, in accord with the eternal.
Savitri Devi
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Results should not be too voluntarily aimed at or too busily thought of. They are sure to float up of their own accord from a long enough daily work at a given matter.
William James
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She went of her own accord,' answered the master; 'she has a right to go if she please. Trouble me no more about her. Hereafter she is only me sister in name: not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
Emily Bronte
