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Never settle for the path of least resistance

You can't ruin Chrismukkah. It's got twice the resistance of any normal holiday.

The Iraqi national resistance will stand against the plan of provoking civil war in Iraq, and we are ready to fight to prevent it.

The union seemed amenable to giving the matter serious consideration, but indicated that there still existed fairly significant resistance from their membership. They wanted the opportunity to use this season to further vet the issue with their players before they would agree to take the step of implementing a mandatory visor rule.

Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character.

Procrastination is another form of resistance

The euro was well supported after IFO. We believe it can go up higher but prefer to buy it on dips. I expect euro/dollar to test the next resistance of $1.2323 today.

The great people at ESPN did not want to deal with this kind of reaction. The path of least resistance became for me to resign.

The index had crossed its 2,500 resistance quite easily (recently) and is bound to retrace as easily.

The dollar's gains were capped around the recent peak level of 119.39 yen, because this level is also a key resistance level on charts.

The dollar's gains today were capped around the recent peak level of 119.39 yen, because this level is also a key resistance level on charts.

The dollar met strong resistance due to selling by Japanese importers and speculators, and turned softer against the yen.

The (Colombian) government's ambitious eradication campaign, to date, has met with heavy resistance from traffickers and armed insurgents,

Aikido is the principle of non-resistance. Because it is non-resistant, it is victorious from the beginning. Those with evil intentions or contentious thoughts are instantly vanquished. Aikido is invincible because it contends with nothing.

If you cannot accept an external event immediately, then some kind of resistance will come up. And there may be some external events you cannot accept at all.

Resistance is weakness and fear masquerading as strength. What the ego sees as weakness is your Being in its purity, innocence, and power. What it sees as strength is weakness.

Surrender is the inner transition from resistance to acceptance, from no to yes.

The market showed great resistance at the level of 13,500 points and bounced back amid a technical correction after some stocks reached the low of their lows.

The markets are hanging on nicely, considering the massive gains yesterday, ... Clearly, if the market can hold onto its gains from yesterday, and through the weak durable goods report today, the path of least resistance is upside.

The major reason we are seeing antibiotic resistance is overuse of antibiotics in the population for illnesses that don't require antibiotics -- typically colds, sore throats, quote bronchitis unquote -- illnesses that would resolve by themselves because they are caused by viruses.

The market has met some resistance at this level. Investors are taking profit after the rally and the entire commodity complex including metals is down. It might drop to $70 and then people may come in to buy then.

The market has been poised to break out on the upside but there seems to be a lot of resistance to every rally.

The market has been in a lateral consolidation for the last six to eight weeks, and we're seeing a continuation of that. Having broken through some technical resistance levels, it is appropriate that there has been some profit-taking. But the general trend of the market remains positive longer-term.

The market has been going straight up and this cannot be sustainable. I think we are close to reaching some kind of resistance levels.

Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a power that grows in proportion to your resistance.

The line of least resistance is upward when you have all the liquidity in the market. But you've accomplished much of what you're going to accomplish for the year right now.

Resistance to tyranny is service to God.

... resistance to tyranny is man's highest ideal.

Animals have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance. There is something so very dreadful in tormenting those who have never harmed us, who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power.

If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.

I think religion might throw up a kind of resistance, but I think if one talks about conditioning we can all kind of understand that.

Most change initiatives either fail or fall far short of original (perhaps unrealistic) expectations. More often than not, resistance is cultural in nature, the result of what James O'Toole so aptly characterizes as "the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom."

So much of the work is intuitive. The resistance you detect is just that, a kind of evasion, a sense that too much analysis will inhibit creativity.

And dead an epoch of our existence, which in a world destined to humiliate us was moral light and resistance.

The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change.

Resistance to unwanted circumstances has the power to keep those circumstances alive and well for a very long time.

Hell is just resistance to life.

When resistance is gone, the demons are gone.

The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.

As human beings, we always have resistance against things that are different and there's always suspicion.

Dying doesn't cause suffering. Resistance to dying does.

The act of civil disobedience is the act of taking our anger and turning it into sacred rage. It is a personal and collective gesture of resistance and insistance.

Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.

We have lived through fear all our lives, and when you have gone through a whole lot of fear, sometimes all you can do is resist the fear, and resistance comes in the form of courage.

There is no movement without our own resistance.

Our hatred knows no bounds, and the war shall be to the death.

Our resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the cost of human life. Because that is what these drums beating over Iraq are really about. This is about business.

Things like rebellion and resistance to authority are absolutely as much a part of the human experience as love and cars are, and it's a part that doesn't get covered very much in pop music.

I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years.

Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt. We experince it as an energy field radiating from a work-in-potential... Its aim is to shove us away, distract us, prevent us from doing our work.

Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.

Resistance’s goal is not to wound or disable. Resistance aims to kill

Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.

Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance.

Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.

Resistance is implacable, intractable, indefatigable.

Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance.

Many pedestrians have been maimed or killed at the intersection of Resistance and Commerce.

We're wrong if we think we're the only ones struggling with Resistance. Everyone who has a body experiences Resistance.

Do we have to stare death in the face to make us stand up and confront Resistance?

Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.

As resistance works to keep us from becoming who we were born to be, equal and opposite powers are counterpoised against it. These are our allies and angels.

Resistance is greatest just before the finish line.

Don't prepare, do. Don't let Resistance sucker you into wasting months on background, foundation, planning. All that can come later.

Every sun casts a shadow, and genius's shadow is Resistance.

Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt.

To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.

We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.

Resistance really takes the shape, for me, in voices in my head telling me why I can't do something or why I should put it off for another day, procrastinate for another day.

All struggle, all resistance is -- must be -- concrete. And all struggle has a global resonance. If not here, then there. If not now, then soon. Elsewhere as well as here.

The new idea either finds a champion or it dies. No ordinary involvement with a new idea provides the energy required to cope with the indifference and resistance that change provokes.

Cause the profit system follows the path of least resistance and following the path of least resistance is what makes the river crooked. Hmmmm.

The poem in the head is always perfect. Resistance begins when you try to convert it into language.

In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation.

Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.

Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.

When Martin Luther was asked what we contribute to our salvation, he said, "Sin and resistance"

You can't grow strong without resistance.

I see disaster everywhere; I also […] see generosity and resistance everywhere.

It was not seen that woman's place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was attempted resistance to irresistible change.

I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.

Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art - the art of words.

The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.

There's a resistance for people to talk about things that make them feel guilty. When natural disasters happen, it's easier not to feel guilty about it.

Procrastination is what we often call 'resistance.

New ideas are not only the enemies of old ones; they also appear often in an extremely unacceptable form.

I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force.

The resistance to a new idea increases by the square of its importance.

The electrical matter consists of particles extremely subtile, since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and freedom as not to receive any perceptible resistance.

The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.

Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.

Philistine gives the notion of something particularly stiff-necked and perverse in the resistance to light and its children; and therein it specially suits our middle-class.

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.

The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.

Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.

Resistance is the secret of joy!

How can we overcome the resistance to innovation that plagues most organizations?