Top 1200 Merely Existing Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

A play visibly represents pure existing.

Theory is good; but it doesn't prevent things from existing.

Existing outside of irony is so hard.

Great leaders don't play by the existing rules.

Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence.

The reason why it is so difficult for existing firms to capitalize on disruptive innovations is that their processes and their business model that make them good at the existing business actually make them bad at competing for the disruption. Companies in fact are specifically organized to under-invest in disruptive innovations! This is one reason why we often suggest that companies set up separate teams or groups to commercialize disruptive innovations. When disruptive innovations have to fight with other innovations for resources, they tend to lose out.

The war existing between the senses and reason.

the work of salvation, in its full sense, is (1) about whole human beings, not merely souls; (2) about the present, not simply the future; and (3) about what God does through us, not merely what God does in and for us.

You can best fight any existing evil from the inside.

I think of the world when I hurt, and keep on existing in the now

I am a scholar of stupidity, so thanks for existing.

Our goal is not to assume leadership of existing institutions, but rather to render them irrelevant. We don't want to take over the state or change its policies. We want to render its laws unenforceable. We don't want to take over corporations and make them more 'socially responsible.' We want to build a counter-economy of open-source information, neighborhood garage manufacturing, permaculture, encrypted currency and mutual banks, leaving the corporations to die on the vine along with the state. We do not hope to reform the existing order. We intend to serve as its grave-diggers.

I love existing in pre big bang conditions.

You never change people by fighting their existing reality.

God only acts and is, in existing beings or men.

When I say that I can write nothing but weird fiction, I am not trying to exalt that medium but am merely confessing my own weakness. The reason I can't write other kinds is not that I don't value & respect them, but merely that my slender set of endowments does not enable me to extract a compellingly acute personal sense of interest & drama from the natural phenomena of life.

We touch other people's lives simply by existing.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

There are some authors who contend that meanings and values are "nothing but defense mechanisms, reaction formations and sublimations." But as for myself, I would not be willing to live merely for the sake of my "defense mechanisms," nor would I be ready to die merely for the sake of my "reaction formations.

Life is a pre-existing condition.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.

The Anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order, and in the assertion that, without authority, there could not be worse violence than that of authority under existing conditions. They are mistaken only in thinking that Anarchy can be instituted by a revolution. "To establish Anarchy." "Anarchy will be instituted." But it will be instituted only by there being more and more people who do not require protection from governmental power, and by there being more and more people who will be ashamed of applying this power.

Existing is plagiarism.

It is too narrow an understanding of production which confines it merely to the making of things. Production includes not merely the making of things, but the bringing of them to the consumer. The merchant or storekeeper is thus as truly a producer as is the manufacturer, or farmer, and his stock or capital is as much devoted to production as is theirs.

Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery.

To live in the world but outside of existing conceptions of it.

In terms of existing, everything is equal.

My only crime is breathing and existing.

The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.

Modern multiple divorce is rooted in the fact that many are seeking in human relationships what human relationships can never give. Why do they have multiple divorce, instead of merely promiscuous affairs? Because they are seeking more than merely sexual relationship.

Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.

The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.

Deepen your existing spiritual commitment.

Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.

Progress cannot be generated when we are satisfied with existing situations.

The single fact of existing is already a true happiness.

We have to ensure we are aggressively enforcing existing laws.

Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

God is not merely good, but goodness; goodness is not merely divine, but God.

If you like your existing plan you get to keep it

Are You Living or Just Existing?" -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys

I make music to generate atmospheres, not to complement already existing ones.

The theory that thought is merely a movement in the brain is, in my opinion, nonsense; for if so, that theory itself would be merely a movement, an event among atoms, which may have speed and direction but of which it would be meaningless to use the words 'true' or 'false'.

There are two kinds of paradoxes. They are not so much the good and the bad, nor even the true and the false. Rather they are the fruitful and the barren; the paradoxes which produce life and the paradoxes that merely announce death. Nearly all modern paradoxes merely announce death.

Ultimately, love is only possible for humans insofar as they can achieve some comprehension of their place and their duties and their values and their significance within the whole of life, of society, of spirituality, of history, of nature. In all merely partial or fragmentary perspectives, there necessarily remain undigested irrational factors, surds that one is merely tolerating and not truly respecting as essential and integral to the whole of what we are.

If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing.

The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.

I guess I've been existing in my own head a lot.

To be loved means to be recognized as existing.

It becomes a cannibalization of your pre-existing economy

"Do not believe anything merely because you are told it is so, because others believe it, because it comes from Tradition, or because you have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect. Believe, take for your doctrine, and hold true to that, which, after serious investigation, seems to you to further the welfare of all beings."

Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.

If you're born a woman, you have a pre-existing condition.

I took and received campaign donations under the existing laws.

Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people.

(existing's tricky:but to live's a gift)

Deep within I'm shaken by the violence of existing for only you.

All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.

[T]o know means to reach the reality of existing things[.]