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Letter "D" » denial
«Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd»
«The first step in the risk management process is to acknowledge the reality of risk. Denial is a common tactic that substitutes deliberate ignorance for thoughtful planning.»
Author: Charles Tremper
| About:
Reality,
Risk
| Keywords:
acknowledge, deliberate, denial, management, planning, step in, tactic, thoughtful
«People who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others have idled, have perservered while others gave up in despair, and have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose.»
Author: Grenville Kleiser
| Keywords:
attained, denial, idled, industry, practiced, self-denial, singleness, worked
«Self-acceptance comes from meeting life's challenges vigorously. Don't numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.»
Author: J. Donald Walters
| Keywords:
acceptance, Challenges, confronting, courageously, denial, difficulties, escape, exclude, excludes, excluding, meeting, numb, numbed, numbing, numbs, self acceptance, Trials, vigorously, walls
«The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.»
Author: Thornton T. Munger
(Scientist)
| Keywords:
broaden, broadened, broadening, Broadens, cultivates, denial, forethought, fosters, saving, self-denial, self taught, trains
«People who use their erudition to write for a learned minority... don't seem to me favored by fortune but rather to be pitied for their continuous self-torture. They add, change, remove, lay aside, take up, rephrase, show to their friends, keep for nine years and are never satisfied. And their futile reward, a word of praise from a handful of people, they win at such a cost -- so many late nights, such loss of sleep, sweetest of all things, and so much sweat and anguish... their health deteriorates, their looks are destroyed, they suffer partial or total blindness, poverty, ill-will, denial of pleasure, premature old age and early death.»
Author: Desiderius Erasmus
(Editor, Humanist, Priest)
| Keywords:
anguish, blindness, continuous, denial, denial of, deteriorates, erudition, favored, futile, handful, ill health, ill will, lay aside, nights, partial, pitied, premature, rephrase, self-torture, sleep late, sweetest, take up, torture
«There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
denial, permanently, resolute, self-denial, stranger
«Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Self-denial
| Keywords:
denial, forego, foregoes, foregoing, foregone, propensity, self-denial
«Self denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Self-denial
| Keywords:
Body of, denial, leprous, self-denial, shining, sore, The Shining
«The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one man to govern others»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
confers, declaration, Declaration of, Declaration of Independence, denial, denial of, dogma, infamous, The Declaration of Independence
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