A Quote by Ellen Glasgow

irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision; it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.

Ellen Glasgow

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Ellen Glasgow
American - Novelist
April 22, 1873 - November 21, 1945

Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.

Alan Barth

An enlightened citizen is an indispensable ingredient of the infrastructure of democracy.

Barbara

Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand irony and has no ear for its whispering lacks of what might called the absolute beginning of the personal life. He lacks what at moments is indispensable for the personal life, lacks both the regeneration and rejuvenation, the cleaning baptism of irony that redeems the soul from having its life in finitude though living boldly and energetically in finitude.

Soren Kierkegaard

Most pastors have a hard time grasping a vision. But vision is the indispensable quality of a leader.

John C. Maxwell

The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.

Ralph Ellison

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

Karl Kraus

[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising the tumor of metaphysical belief. (130)

Stephen Batchelor

If you have to choose one critical ingredient of success, it's passion.

Carver Mead

I think being fit is an indispensable ingredient for holistic well-being.

Shakti Mohan

Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily dangerous. Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.

Alan Barth

Vigorous independent and critical media are indispensable in a democracy.

Geoff Mulgan

[T]he one indispensable ingredient of science fiction [is] a belief in a world being changed by man's intellect, a conviction that what was being written could really happen.

James Gunn

One essential ingredient for being an original in the day of copies is courageous vision.

Charles R. Swindoll

Our progress against malaria is impressive. But vigilance remains a critical ingredient to protect the health of all people.

Tom Frieden

There are three main areas of focus: vision, priorities and alignment. It is critical to articulate a clear vision - how do we add value based on what key competences? Some leaders fail to be clear enough or fail to update the vision based on changes in their industry and in the world.

Robert S. Kaplan

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