Guarding Quotations

Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action.

We have a responsibility to stand watch over one another, we are watchers, all of us, watchers, guarding against the darkness.

We are all bodies of water, guarding the mystery of our depths, but some of us have more to guard than others.

-- and it occurred to me that people who don't talk about themselves are limiting their own potential. They think they're guarding themselves for some sort of abstract dange, but they're actually allowing other people to decide who they are and what they're like.

A sense of being part of the great all-inclusive life prompts us to reflect on our own place and on how we ought to live. Guarding others' lives, the ecology and the earth is the same as protecting one's own life. By like token, wounding them is the same thing as wounding oneself. Consequently, it is the duty of each of us to participate as members of the life community in the evolution of the universe. We can do this by guarding earth's ecological system.

It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it.

Charonte are guarding a Dimme? Is the world coming to an end and I missed the memo? (Stryker)

Greatness is not guarding yourself from people. Greatness is being accepted by the people

Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby.

He had been content with daily labour and rough animal enjoyments, 'till Catherine crossed his path. Shame at her scorn, and hope of her approval, were his first prompts to higher pursuits; and, instead of guarding him from one and winning him to the other, his endeavors to raise himself had produced just the contrary result.

A rich woman seems to have all her banknotes about her, guarding her virtue, like a cuirass, in the lining of her corset.

During courtship, guarding each other's purity and refraining from intimacy are the acts of lovemaking.

In science, the whole system builds on people looking at other people's results and building on top of them. In witchcraft, somebody had a small secret and guarded it - but never allowed others to really understand it and build on it. Traditional software is like witchcraft. In history, witchcraft just died out. The same will happen in software. When problems get serious enough, you can't have one person or one company guarding their secrets. You have to have everybody share in the knowledge.

We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnable, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.

[When you're on fire] it feels like nobody's out there, you're playing by yourself. You don't care how good a defender is guarding you.

You build something but you cant live in the house because you sit around guarding it.

LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.