The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist the Internet is wonderful are those who need it to give their life meaning.
The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas. Some skeptics insist that innovation is expensive. In the long run, innovation is cheap. Mediocrity is expensive—and autonomy can be the antidote. ” TOM KELLEY General Manager, IDEO
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.
To insist that I am not forgiven is a kind of inverse arrogance.
I have created the Raven in my own image over the years and insist that mine is the version of this personality that is correct - well, at least it is correct as far as I am concerned.
My parents always say I have really good legs. Ive worked really hard for them. They always insist that I show my legs.
If you insist, how can I resist?
Insist on your life, never imitate. . . do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
If you insist on being determined by the past that's your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts right now.
No need to continually insist upon your unshakable masculinity.
Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.
If you insist on wearing gloves, make sure they match your purse.
When people insist, as so many of them do, that of course we'll overcome the limits to growth and every other obstacle to our allegedly preordained destiny out there among the stars, all that means is that they have a single story wedged into their imagination so tightly that mere reality can't shake it loose.
But it is necessary to insist more strongly than usual that what I am putting before you is a model-the Bohr model atom-because later I shall take you to a profounder level of representation in which the electron instead of being confined to a particular locality is distributed in a sort of probability haze all over the atom.
You can be a career professional as a judge, a prosecutor, sometimes as a defense attorney, and never insist on fairness and justice. That's tragic and that's what we have to change.
I have to be honest in asking myself: Do I really want to know and do God's will? Or is it rather that I want God to do my will? Do I go to God with the assurance that I want only to know and do his will? Or do I rather first make my own plans and then insist that God make my dreams come true?
Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?
Some respected and beloved brethren insist that the forming and organising of churches is, according to God's will, the only means of finding blessing in the midst of that confusion which is acknowledged to exist.
If I had the power, I would insist on all oratorios being sung in the costume of the period, with the possible exception of The Creation.