Quotes about keep
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“There is no need for us to be satisfied with a rate of growth that keeps good men out of work and good capacity out of use.”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

Source: 1962, Address and Question and Answer Period at the Economic Club of New York

Men

“There's so many inside jokes because you spend so much time together. You spend fourteen hours a day together and you're together all the time and you're doing all these strange activities and there's strange scenes and lines so you just kind of end up with these really weird in-jokes that keep you going and give you belly laughs.”

Isabel Durant (1991) Australian actor and dancer

Source: Exclusive | Mako Mermaids | CAST Reunion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDGRc7z7zeA (July 2, 2020)

Time

“The world is your oyster if you’re unafraid to tell your own story and keep it universally appealing. But you have reason to be afraid of making live action children’s drama in Australia if the system is dismantled.”

Jonathan M. Shiff Australian television producer

Source: Interview with Jonathan Shiff https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/sa/screen-news/2018/06-18-international-tv-sales-snapshot-for-2017/part-4-interview-with-jonathan-shiff (18 June 2018)

Children, World, Making love, Universe

“I'm interested in truth, I like science. But truth's a menace, science is a public danger. As dangerous as it's been beneficent. … It's curious … to read what people in the time of Our Ford used to write about scientific progress. They seemed to imagine that it could go on indefinitely, regardless of everything else. Knowledge was the highest good, truth the supreme value; all the rest was secondary and subordinate. True, ideas were beginning to change even then. Our Ford himself did a great deal to shift the emphasise from truth and beauty to comfort and happiness. Mass production demanded the shift. Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't. And, of course, whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered. Still, in spite of everything, unrestricted scientific resarch was still permitted. People still went on talking about truth and beauty as though they were sovereign goods. Right up to the time of the Nine Years' War. That made them change their tune all right. What's the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when the anthrax bombs are popping all around you? That was when science first began to be controlled — after the Nine Years' War. People were ready to have even their appetites controlled then. Anything for a quiet life. We've gone on controlling ever since. It hasn't been very good for truth, of course. But it's been very good for happiness. One can't have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for.”

Aldous Huxley book Brave New World

Source: Brave New World (1932), Mustapha Mond, in Ch. 16

Life, War, Happiness, People

“55 years ago today, we were beaten, tear gassed, and trampled by horses. I thought I saw death. I thought I was going to die. I don't know how I made it back, but I know we cannot rest. We cannot become weary. We must keep pushing and pulling and find a way to get in the way.”

John Lewis (civil rights leader) (1940) American politician and civil rights leader

Source: Twitter https://twitter.com/repjohnlewis/status/1236392740717543424, (7 March 2020)

Death, Way, Tear, Horse

“We were beaten, we were tear-gassed. I thought I was going to die on this bridge. But somehow and some way, God almighty helped me here. We cannot give up now. We cannot give in. We must keep the faith, keep our eyes on the prize.”

John Lewis (civil rights leader) (1940) American politician and civil rights leader

Source: Twitter https://twitter.com/repjohnlewis/status/1234277472776183810, (1 March 2020)

God, Faith, Way, Tear

“Since a great part of those Learned Men, especially Physicians who have discerned the defects of the vulgar Philosophy, but are not yet come to understand and relish the Corpuscularian, have slid into the Doctrine of the Chymists; and since the Spagyrists are wont to pretend to make out all the Qualities of bodies from the Predominancy of some one of their three Hypostatical Principles, I suppose it may both keep my opinion from appearing too presumptuous, and (which is far more considerable) may make way for the fairer Reception of the Mechanical Hypothesis about Qualities, if I here intimate (though but briefly and in general) some of those defects, that I have observed in Chymists Explications of Qualities.”

Robert Boyle (1627–1691) English natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor

Source: Of the Imperfection of The Chymist's Doctrine of Qualities (1675)

Men, Making love, Way, Understanding

“Learn, then, that the service demanded is that unselfish service that gives everything and asks for nothing in return; and if you find that in you it is a necessity of your nature, not a choice but an overmastering impulse, then you may be sure that you are one of the men of the world who are taking the first steps towards the Path. (I need hardly say that when I say men I mean women too, but I cannot keep on saying "man and woman each time..)!”

Annie Besant (1847–1933) British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator

Source: Initiation, The Perfecting of Man 1923, p. 29

Women, Men, World, Nature

“No lawmaker should be cashing in on their public service and selling their contacts and expertise to the highest bidder... don't think it should be legal at ALL to become a corporate lobbyist if you've served in Congress. Keeping it real, the elephant in the room with passing a lobbying ban on members requires a nearly-impossible discussion about congressional pay.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (1989) American politician

AOC Calls for Ban on Revolving Door as Study Shows Two-Thirds of Recently Departed Lawmakers Now K Street Lobbyists https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/05/30/aoc-calls-ban-revolving-door-study-shows-two-thirds-recently-departed-lawmakers-nowCommon Dreams, Eoin Higgins,] (30 May 2019) 2019

Thinking

“Look—I understand that many of my fellow Americans view the future with fear and trepidation. I understand they worry about their jobs. I understand like my dad, they lay in bed wondering, can I keep my health care, can I pay my mortgage. Thinking about their families, about what comes next. I promise you, I get it.But the answer is not to turn inward, to retreat into competing factions, distrusting those who don′t look like you or worship the way you do or don′t get their news from the same source as you do. We must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban, conservative versus liberal. We can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts.If we show a little tolerance and humility, and if we are willing to stand in the other person′s shoes—as my mom would say—just for a moment, stand in their shoes. Because here′s the thing about life: there′s no accounting for what fate will deal you.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

2021, January, Presidential Inaugural Address (2021)

Life, Fate, War, Health

“We are curious, we ask questions, we read and research and connect with others who know more than we do. Then we fumble to record the answers the best we can, and we discover that we understand things better because we try to write about them with candor and clarity. Questions just keep bubbling up all the time.”

Diana Pavlac Glyer (1956) British writer

Interview With Colin Duriez and Diana Glyer https://thecultivatingproject.com/interview-with-colin-duriez-and-diana-glyer/ (August 24, 2015)

Understanding, Question, Time, Reading

“The way I see it, it's a great thing to be the man who hit the most home runs, but it's a greater thing to be the man who did the most with the home runs he hit. So as long as there's a chance that maybe I can hammer out a little justice now and then, or a little opportunity here and there, I intend to do as I always have — keep swinging.”

Hank Aaron (1934) Retired American baseball player

Source: I Had a Hammer : The Hank Aaron Story (1990), Ch. 1

Justice, Way, Home, Chance

“There was no question that I was deeply afraid of what might happen to me if the "condition" continued. I was much more concerned about the possibility of a growing mental illness than a physical deterioration. I had studied enough psychology and had enough psychologist and psychiatrist friends to compound such fears. Moreover, I was afraid to discuss the matter with these friends. I was afraid that I would then be classified as their "patients," and lose the closeness that equality (normalcy) brings. Non-professional friends in business and community would be worse. I would be labeled a freak or psychotic, which could seriously affect my life and the lives of those close to me. Finally, it seemed to be something to keep from my family. It seemed unnecessary that they worry along with me.”

Robert Monroe (1915–1995) American founder of The Monroe Institute

Journeys Out of the Body (1971), Chapter 2. Search and Research

Life, Fear, Family, Communication

“Wish I was a millionaire
I'd play rock music and grow long hair
Tell you boys
about a new Rolls-Royce Pretty women would call on me
I'd give ‘em all the third degree
Give ‘em satin sheets
To keep ‘em off the streetsHallelujah, let me sock it to ya
Praise the Lord...”

Willis Allan Ramsey (1951) American singer-songwriter

Satin sheets

Women, Music, Boy

“Christians talk about the horror of sin, but they have overlooked something. They keep talking as if everyone were a great sinner, when the truth is that nowadays one is hardly up to it. There is very little sin in the depths of the malaise. The highest moment of a malaisian's life can be the moment when he manages to sin like a proper human”

Walker Percy book The Moviegoer

Look at us, Binx — my vagabond friends as good as cried out to me — we're sinning! We're succeeding! We're human after all!
The Moviegoer (1961)

Life, Truth

“Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, "But how can it be like that?"”

Richard Feynman book The Character of Physical Law

because you will get "down the drain", into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.
Concerning the apparent absurdities of quantum behavior.
Source: The Character of Physical Law (1965), chapter 6, “Probability and Uncertainty — the Quantum Mechanical View of Nature,” p. 129

“I appeal to you that every Christian you are in contact with around the world, make freedom of religion in North Korea an issue. Make the situation known, ask them to pray. Keep reminding so that something will happen.”

Lee Soon-ok (1947) activist, former political prisoner

Interview: Soon Ok Lee https://web.archive.org/web/20071012053528/http://asialink.org.uk/magazine/Interview_Soon_Ok_Lee.html (2003)

World, Making love, Religion, Freedom

“For the people of the world sleep is more profitable than to keep awake, for then they keep off worldly discourses during sleep.”

Sufyan al-Thawri (716–778) Muslim Scholar and founder of Thawri Madhhab

Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 29

People, World, Sleep

“[Nature] only keeps us alive by a complicated system of the most shameful illusions, falsifying beyond rectification life, death, and after-death. Having made us take part in this poor puzzling game of life, she has taken care that all the rules shall be unfavourable to us: the cards are marked, the dice are loaded, we are always swindled. Thus years of hard work; and self-denial are frequently lost by a slip or chance, but seldom or never saved by a chance. Our health may be ruined by a pin-prick, but never doubled by an accident. We fall seriously ill in a moment, and take weeks or months to recover; lose a limb by some sudden mishap, but never by a good hap regain it. We cannot reach even a low degree of wisdom or knowledge without long hard study, while to be ignorant and foolish is the easiest and most natural thing in the world for us. Our sorrows are real and enduring; our joys deceptive and transient; our prizes of victory are not to be compared with our forfeits of defeat.”

James Thomson (B.V.) (1834–1882) Scottish writer (1834-1882)

"The Speedy Extinction of Evil and Misery", part II, p. 62
Essays and Phantasies (1881)

Life, Death, Wisdom, Health

“Live day by day and always keep your head up high, transforming your heart every day.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Vivi giorno per giorno e avanza sempre a testa alta trasformando ogni giorno come desidera il tuo cuore.
Source: prevale.net

Heart

“Music keeps me alive.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) La musica mi tiene in vita.
Source: prevale.net

Music

“You are never too adults to ensure that you do not keep the child inside each of us.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Non si è mai troppo adulti per far sì che non si conservi il bambino che è dentro ognuno di noi.
Source: prevale.net

“If she couldn't keep you, she didn't deserve you.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Se non ha saputo tenerti con sé, non ti meritava.
Source: prevale.net

“I am not smarter than anybody else but I can out work you – and my key to success for you, or anybody else is make sure you are the first one in there every day and the last one to leave. Don’t ever take a lunch break or go to the bathroom, you keep working.”

Michael Bloomberg (1942) American businessman and politician, former mayor of New York City

Source: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2013/08/bloomberg-bathroom-break-success-quote.html

Making love, Success

“I'd like to get a lot done in a short period of time. ... Your head coach won’t be real patient. Trying to keep it in perspective? Yes. Real patient? No.”

Tom Crean (basketball coach) (1966) American college basketball coach

As quoted in "Crean on : rebuilding the tradition of Indiana basketball" by David Burkart in IUplanet Newsletter (7 October 2007) http://iuplanet.com/forum/indiana-basketball-news/20261-crean-rebuilding-tradition-indiana-basketball.html

Time

“It's hard to keep things moving. And that's always a big trick. I think for me, the key is setting really big goals. And, you know, with YouTube, I think we've had tremendous leadership, both with the founders and now with Salar, who's been running it.”

Larry Page (1973) American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur

Larry Page Q&A Zeitgeist Americas 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=4Mzlp6mIaC4#t=748s, at the annual Zeitgeist conference in Arizona. Published on October 16, 2012. Answering the question asked by Larry Aidem http://www.linkedin.com/pub/larry-aidem/42/229/6b7: "And I'm just curious what you do both at Google and also in the way you've managed the YouTube acquisition, which I think you could look at as one of the most successful examples of somebody buying something and not screwing it up. What's consciously done to keep that ethos, both at the Google level and then at YouTube?"

Thinking

“The questions that keep us up at night are the questions which drive us during the day.”

Isaac Mashman (2000) businessman, speaker

Question, Night

“Spiritual discourse always keeps the soul free from self-esteem, for it gives every part of the soul a sense of light, so that it no longer needs the praise of men.”

Diadochos of Photiki (400–486) Byzantine saint

§ 11
On Spiritual Knowledge and Discrimination (480 AD)

Men, Soul, Sense, Light

“I’d rather be myself authentically than have to keep up with a persona.”

Lauren Jauregui (1996) Cuban-American singer and songwriter

[Sony's Lost In Music Tech and Music Pop-Up Space in New York City — Episode 2: Lauren Jauregui, https://www.sony.com/en_us/lost-in-music.html#_weeklyonlineshow, Sony, November 23, 2018]

“It's customary, at times like this, to say a few words. A man shouldn't die with no understanding of why he's been murdered. I do not pride myself on my eloquence, and so I will keep this simple.”

Matthew Stover book Heroes Die

The Acts of Caine, Heroes Die (The Acts of Caine: Act of Violence) (1998)
Heroes Die (1998)

Understanding, Time

“It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.”

Daniel Kahneman (1934) Israeli-American psychologist

Positive

“Evolution’s the gift that keeps on giving.”

Ron English (1959) American artist

Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)

“With a comedy, you can easily take away the humor. So it’s very important to keep the pacing of it going, and to keep the lighthearted nature of it going. I think in many ways, a comedy is more difficult than drama”

Anne Dudley (1956) English composer and pop musician

“The Hustle” Composer Anne Dudley On Her Creative Process And Storytelling Through Music: BUST Interview https://bust.com/movies/196048-anne-dudley-thehustle-interview.html (2019)

Way, Nature, Thinking

“He willeth that we love Him sweetly and trust in Him meekly and mightily. And this shewed He in these gracious words: I keep thee full surely.”

Julian of Norwich (1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress

Summations, Chapter 61

Love, Making love

“Still you can't keep doing the coulda and the woulda and the shoulda. And if there's one thing I know it's this. Doesn't matter how smart you are, or even how careful or lucky, there's some mistakes you just keep making over and over.”

Tim Winton (1960) Australian writer

Part III, Ch.4 - p.238, 239
The Shepherd's Hut (2018)

Making love

“Revenge is the philosophy of dictators and mob bosses... used to keep others in line with threats of economic ruin, violence, or worse.”

David Cay Johnston (1948) Investigative journalist and author

It's Even Worse Than You Think (2018)

Revenge

“Conservatism means we take the things that we know work and we keep and maintain them. If you want to try something new... you're careful... you're cautious... you're skeptical of it.”

David Cay Johnston (1948) Investigative journalist and author

David Cay Johnston; How The One Percent Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (Jun 23, 2009)

“I don’t mean to be desperate or pretend that I’m not torn
But I don’t want to let go of the things that keep me warm”

James Blunt (1974) English singer-songwriter

"Cold", written by James Blunt, Cleo Tighe, Steve Robson
Song lyrics, Once Upon a Mind (2019)

“We should not believe so much in cultures and forget about God’s role in our lives. We should always keep in mind that all good relationships and families are built on principles of love and trustworthiness.”

Michael A. Blume (1946) American nuncio

Want strong and happy marriage? This bishop gave BEST marriage advice ever! https://www.tuko.co.ke/230842-want-strong-happy-marriage-this-bishop-gave-best-marriage-advice-photo.html ()

Love, God, Making love, Family

“We should keep in mind that in this country there is a general discrimination against minorities and the poorest workers. It is a widespread mentality which can also affect this tragedy. The fact that the rich are better off than the poor, having saved their own land, is a serious matter which the government must address.”

Max Rodrigues French fencer

Pakistan: some Christians denied aid unless they convert to Islam https://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=7460 (September 6, 2010)

Country

“In society, we do horrible things to one another because we don't see the person it affects. We don't see their face. We don't see them as people. Which was the whole reason the hood was built in the first place, to keep the victims of apartheid out of sight and out of mind. Because if white people ever saw black people as human, they would see that slavery is unconscionable. We live in a world where we don't see the ramifications of what we do to others, because we don't live with them. It would be a whole lot harder for an investment banker to rip off people with subprime mortgages if he actually had to live with the people he was ripping off. If we could see one another's pain and empathize with one another, it would never be worth it to us to commit the crimes in the first place.”

Trevor Noah book Born a Crime

page 222
Born a Crime

Pain, People, World, Personality

“Technically, it’s about getting the basic forms and proportions right for your goal. It’s NOT about details. Details are easy and definitely keep designs alive onscreen, but if the basic forms are not natural, believable and convincing, no amount of details is going to make much difference. And when in doubt, study Mother Nature.”

Chris Walas (1955) American special effects artist and film director

TALKING WITH CREATURE EFFECTS LEGEND CHRIS WALAS…OR AS I KNOW HIM, UNCLE CHRIS https://www.starwars.com/news/talking-with-creature-effects-legend-chris-walas-or-as-i-know-him-uncle-chris (March 1, 2016)

Making love, Nature, Study

“If you want your enemy to trust you in the future, keep the promises you made during bargaining.”

Attila (406–453) King of the Hunnic Empire

Turkish Wikipedia
https://quotestats.com/topic/attila-hun-quotes/

Future

“The stories, they get misconstrued as the facts aren’t really facts and the fictions aren’t really fictions. Sometimes, the people telling the stories aren’t who they appear to be. Sometimes, the voices sound the same and you never really know where they’re coming from. And sometimes, the same person just keeps telling the same story, over and over until he’s sick in the head.”

Jason Tanamor (1975) Filipino-American Author and Writer

Source: Novels, Anonymous (2013), Chapter 19

People, Appearance, Personality

“Germany and England have undertaken all steps to avoid a European war. ... [W]e have lost control and the landslide has begun, As a political leader I am not abandoning my hope and my attempts to keep the peace as long as my démarche in Vienna has not been rejected.”

Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg (1856–1921) German chancellor during World War I

Speech to the Prussian Ministry of State (30 July 1914), quoted in Konrad H. Jarauschl, ‘The Illusion of Limited War: Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg's Calculated Risk, July 1914’, Central European History, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Mar., 1969), p. 69

War, Peace, Hope

“If we succeed not only in keeping France itself quiet, but also in having it plead for peace in Petersburg, this turn of events will weaken the Franco-Russian alliance.”

Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg (1856–1921) German chancellor during World War I

Letter to Rödern (15 July 1914), quoted in Konrad H. Jarauschl, ‘The Illusion of Limited War: Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg's Calculated Risk, July 1914’, Central European History, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Mar., 1969), p. 62

Peace

“Political friendships are political business transactions and in political, as in economic life, business transactions are most easily and reliably concluded between strong parties The weakling always goes to the wall. A people that lacks a genuine sacrificial spirit or believes that it is not rich enough to keep its armaments in order thereby only betrays that it is played out. I beg you to bear one idea in mind through every difficulty. If anyone should threaten our homestead, we must be ready to the last man.”

Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg (1856–1921) German chancellor during World War I

Speech to the Reichstag introducing the Military Bill (April 1913), quoted in W. M. Knight-Patterson, Germany from Defeat to Conquest, 1913–1933 (1945), p. 28

Life, Friendship, People, Idea

“We must keep France in check through a cautious policy towards Russia and England. Naturally this does not please our chauvinists and is unpopular. But I see no alternative for Germany in the near future.”

Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg (1856–1921) German chancellor during World War I

Letter to Eisendecher (23 March 1913), quoted in Konrad H. Jarauschl, ‘The Illusion of Limited War: Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg's Calculated Risk, July 1914’, Central European History, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Mar., 1969), p. 53

Nature, Future

“I think the rewards for moral courage are promotion. ... Any institution gets the behavior it rewards. Now if the institution gets rotten, you can have a problem with this. It's happened to institutions, it's happened to corporations. It's why you have to be very alert to this to keep your personal and managerial integrity.”

James Mattis (1950) 26th and current United States Secretary of Defense; United States Marine Corps general

Interview with David Brooks on C-SPAN (9 June 2019), time code 48:00 https://www.c-span.org/video/?463748-1/defense-secretary-jim-mattis-discusses-military-career-leadership

Behavior, Courage, Problem, Thinking

“You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.”

Marian Wright Edelman (1939) American children's rights activist

“To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.”

Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism

Health, Strong

“True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.”

Baltasar Gracián (1601–1658) Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher

Life, Friendship, Evil, Friendship

“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”

Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece

People, Powerful

“No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.”

Sam Rayburn (1882–1961) lawmaker from Bonham, Texas

Personality

“Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.”

Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece

Silence, Parting, Peaceful

“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.”

Edward Everett Hale (1822–1909) American author and Unitarian clergyman

Success, Motivational, Success, Inspirational

“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.”

Jim Elliot (1927–1956) Martyred Christian missionary to Ecuador

Fools

“And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.”

Michelle Obama (1964) lawyer, writer, wife of Barack Obama and former First Lady of the United States

Love, Wisdom, Courage, Patience

“Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.”

Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet

Love, Life, Wisdom, Pain

“I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.”

Judy Collins (1939) American singer and songwriter

Love, People, World, Faith

“I am already seeing the crisis reformatting into some artistic statements, there will be plays, maybe films. Definitely theatrical performances. As strange as it sounds, I think that these difficult times have changed arts people, especially in theater and film, who were never fond of social subjects and always tried to keep their distance. And now they jumped right into it because of this difficult situation. And I think there will be only more of that.”

Chulpan Khamatova (1975) Russian actress

As quoted in "“Fostering Leadership”: online talk with Chulpan Khamatova" in Vladimir Potanin Foundation (7 August 2020) https://www.fondpotanin.ru/en/press/news/fostering-leadership-online-talk-with-chulpan-khamatova/

People, Art, Thinking, Change

“If you have faith and keep moving on, things will eventually fall in place.”

Tina Dabi (1993) Indian Administrative Service Officer

Quoted in Indian Express https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/life-positive/if-you-have-faith-and-keep-moving-on-things-will-eventually-fall-in-place-tina-dabi-6178516/

Faith

“Valuable people are in constant extinction. When you can find one, keep it in your heart.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Persone di valore sono in continua estinzione. Quando riesci a trovarne una, custodiscila nel cuore.
Source: prevale.net

People, Heart

“Sometimes, when loneliness seems about to crush everything, the only way to resist is to keep on loving.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Love has always passed me by

Love, Way, Loneliness

“Start from scratch, stay patient, make a difference, and keep on improving.”

Vladimer Botsvadze

“It's not over. We keep going and we're going to continue to go forward.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

Quoted by * 2020-12-12
Trump tells 'Fox & Friends' election challenges 'not over' ahead of Electoral College vote
Ronn Blitzner
Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-fox-and-friends-election-challenges-not-over-electoral-college-vote
2020, December 2020

“A soldier is a man who knows he's being lead to his death but keeps going because it's an order.”

Suraj Sani (1996) Nigerian writer, Spoken word artist

Source: Quotes from Roses in The desert, P. 31.

Death

“We keep appealing to the authorities to do what is needed, and we pray to God because He is the optimal security that we have. We can’t depend on human security!”

Ignatius Ayau Kaigama (1958) Nigerian Catholic archbishop

Archbp. Kaigama calls on Gvt and Intl Community to protect Nigerians https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2020-12/nigeria-kidnappings-scholars-priests-lawlessness-appeal-kaigama.html (18 December 2020)

God, Optimism, Dependency

“Is exactly in the difficult moments that you have to clench your teeth so as not to give up the grip that keeps you alive.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) È proprio nei momenti difficili che devi stringere i denti per non mollare la presa che ti tiene in vita.
Source: prevale.net

“Is the harmony that keeps the daily harmony between two people alive.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) È la sintonia a tenere in vita la quotidiana armonia tra due persone.
Source: prevale.net

People

“Being a music producer is a mission. It does not mean creating music to keep up with the times, but creating songs to convey emotions.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Essere un produttore musicale è una missione. Non vuol dire creare musica per stare al passo con i tempi, ma ideare canzoni per trasmettere emozioni.
Source: prevale.net

Music, Time

“What keeps your dreams alive is the hope of realizing them.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Ciò che mantiene vivi i tuoi sogni, è la speranza di poterli realizzare.
Source: prevale.net

Dreams, Hope

“They’re trying to keep the populists of both left and right apart with cultural issues, and they’re doing it to insulate themselves from any combination or constituency that can come after their power, perks and wealth. They’re dividing and conquering.”

Thaddeus McCotter (1965) American politician

Exclusive — Thaddeus McCotter: Elites’ Greatest Fear Is Left-Right Populist Unity https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2021/07/27/exclusive-thaddeus-mccotter-elites-greatest-fear-is-left-right-populist-unity/ (27 July 2021)

Wealth

“If she couldn't keep you, she didn't deserve you.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Se non ha saputo tenerti con sé, non ti meritava.

“Valuable people are in constant extinction. When you can find one, keep it in your heart.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

People, Heart

“The function of the Church’s doctrine of original sin ... is to keep alive the beam in my eye ... God keeps alive the beam in my eye by making that beam a living Cross, a beam on which there hangs a murdered victim.”

James Alison (1959) Christian theologian, priest

Source: The Joy of Being Wrong, p. 261.

God

“You don’t tear up the room because there’s a sweet spot for the microphones, and you can’t deviate very far from that or else the engineer gets mad. You have to act with your whole body, but keep it right in the zone.”

Dee Bradley Baker (1962) American voice actor

Denver’s “Clone Wars,” “Phineas and Ferb” voice actor on working (from home) through a pandemic https://theknow.denverpost.com/2020/08/21/dee-bradley-baker-interview/243747/ (August 21, 2020)

Tear, Madness

“Keep in mind, as a student of history, as I’m sure you are, never has Afghanistan been a united country, not in all of its history. Not in all of its history.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

2021, July 2021, Remarks by President Biden on the Drawdown of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan

History, Country

“Well, I remember!
I remember, don't worry
How could I ever forget?
It's the first time, the last time we ever met
But, I know the reason why you keep your silence up,
No you don't fool me.
The hurt doesn't show
But the pain still grows
It's no stranger to you and me.”

Phil Collins (1951) English musician, songwriter and actor

"In the Air Tonight"
Face Value (1981)

Pain, Fools, Silence, Time

“Once I'm committed to a role, I will go very deep into it, even when I'm not at work. I'll keep on studying the script, maybe 40 or 50 times. I might call a scriptwriter at three in the morning to say I've thought of something new.”

Tony Leung (1962) Hong Kong actor

"'It never gets any easier'" in The Guardian (23 February 2004) https://www.theguardian.com/film/2004/feb/23/1

Study, Time

“If you have a problem and you're also successful, everyone does whatever they can to keep it going. I see that a lot.”

Mary Elizabeth Winstead (1984) American actress and singer

"Mary Elizabeth Winstead: from scream queen to alcoholic in Smashed" in The Guardian (29 November 2012) https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/nov/29/mary-elizabeth-winstead-scream-queen-alcoholic-smashed

Problem, Success

“I don't even want people to say I'm the godfather of Chinese rock music. I would like to say I'm the grandson of Chinese rock music. I want to keep doing something, I don't want to sit there and tell people what you should do. I don't like that.”

Cui Jian (1961) Chinese rock musician of Korean descent

"Rocker Cui Jian Says his Music Hasn't Changed but China Has" in Voice of America (30 December 2015) https://www.voanews.com/east-asia/rocker-cui-jian-says-his-music-hasnt-changed-china-has

People, Music

“If people are criticising your work, take it in the right spirit and try to find out what is wrong. I made a lot of mistakes on my first film and told myself not to do it again. Remember that you’re not making a film to keep it in a box, it’s for the people.”

Rima Das (1982) Indian Assamese film maker

Film Companion Article - Rima Das Gives Tips On Zero Budget Filmmaking - 4 November 2017 https://www.filmcompanion.in/interviews/bollywood-interview/rima-das-gives-tips-on-zero-budget-filmmaking/ - Archive https://web.archive.org/web/20210728182917/https://www.filmcompanion.in/interviews/bollywood-interview/rima-das-gives-tips-on-zero-budget-filmmaking/

People, Box

“There is no correlation between having the ability to punish and being right. More often than not, the wrong people get punished. And the punishers use their power to keep from being accountable.”

Sarah Schulman (1958) American writer

Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair (2016)

People

“But there is that feeling. And there’s always another challenge, and that keeps us humble. Life knocks you off your pedestal.”

Pema Chödron (1936) American philosopher

How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind (2008)

Life, Feeling

“The basic unit of writing practice is the timed exercise.
1. Keep your hand moving.
2. Don't cross out.
3. Don't worry about spelling, punctuation, grammar.
4. Lose control.
5. Don't think. Don't get logical.
6. Go for the jugular.
[…] That is the discipline: to continue to sit.”

Natalie Goldberg book Writing Down the Bones

Essay, "First thoughts". p.8, 9
Writing Down the Bones (1986)

Exercises, Thinking, Time

“On my way, maybe I am looking for the destination, I am walking towards my destination by taking steps, I do not know how far, I am walking towards my destination, I do not see the way, I start thinking in the middle of the road, I keep my spirits in my life, maybe I can get my destination.”

Shabdon Ka Jahan

Life, Way, Thinking

“The moment I understood that what's been keeping my success back is thinking that I'm still young, I grew up not in body shape but mind.”

Edykasawuli7

Thinking, Success

“I love cooking and learning more every day in cooking. I look at food as I would languages or art and my vocabulary and palate keep expanding. I continue to do pastry and have been doing savory all along and it's a beautiful marriage.”

Elizabeth Falkner (1966) American television chef

discussing her interest in both pastry and savory cooking Justluxe Article - Interview by Sara Cardoza - Top Chef Interviews: Elizabeth Falkner https://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/dining/feature-1844413.php - October 2012 - Archive https://web.archive.org/web/20211003105247/https://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/dining/feature-1844413.php

Love, Marriage, Food, Beauty

“The first thing a psychologist learns is to keep her mouth shut around laymen.”

James Blish (1921–1975) American author

Source: …And All the Stars a Stage (1971; [serialized in 1960]), Chapter 13 (p. 180)

Learning

“Common sense is the great thing in all this. You eat what you find through a minimum requirement keeps your body healthy. Each individual and each group finds for itself the diet which suits its purposes, climate, tradition and background.”

Benjamin Creme (1922–2016) artist, author, esotericist

Source: The Reappearance of the Christ and the Masters of Wisdom (1980)

Sense

“Oh darling, let's stay up all night
Drinking whisky, telling stories, I can keep you satisfied
Oh darling, let's stay up all night
Drinking whisky, telling stories, I can keep you satisfied
Oh darling, let's stay up all night
Drinking whisky, telling stories, I can keep you satisfied”

Example (musician) (1982) English rapper and singer

"Whisky Story" (song, 2015) ("Whisky Story" on YouTube (Official video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQceqbA7kFI Non-album singles, As lead artist

Drink, Night

“When the lights go out
come and hunt me down,
keep me in your line of sight
Be my predator, I'll give in to ya
Take a taste, do what you like
Show me how to love ya
Show me how to get you high
Show me how to love ya
I just wanna rock you right”

Example (musician) (1982) English rapper and singer

"Show me how to Love" (song), feat. Hayla ("Show me how to Love" on YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLTcHyuKAb0 Mixtapes, Bangers & Ballads (2018)

Love, Light