The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.
I carry out my full duties as Deputy First Minister and accept I have tinnitus but appreciate the hearing that I do have and that it does not limit me in a professional or personal capacity.
I was so fanatical about trying to save wildlife... I was unable to accept that we couldn't solve this problem of thousands of years, of wherever humans operated, the environment deteriorated.
The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.
As CEO, I accept responsibility for the irregularities that have been found in diesel engines and have therefore requested the Supervisory Board to agree on terminating my function as CEO of the Volkswagen Group.
We have to accept the idea that Europe will be made on a two-speed basis, with a union based on solidarity and differentiation.
Missionaries labor diligently to teach and baptize those who accept the gospel. In the process, their own testimonies become deeply rooted.
I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise.
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern.
Don't divide the world into 'them' and 'us.' Avoid infatuation with or resentment of the press, the Congress, rivals, or opponents. Accept them as facts. They have their jobs and you have yours.
My old man used to say that I would argue the hind leg of a donkey. If I didn't agree with something, I wasn't prepared to accept it.
I refused to accept anything, doubted everything. So, doubting everything, I had to find something that had not existed before, something I had not thought of before. Any idea that came to me, the thing would be to turn it around and try to see it with another set of senses.
I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.
Never accept a drink from a urologist.
Things won't get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.
I'm a big old egotistical baby and that's okay. I can accept it.
As Elton John, my days on pop radio are over, and I know that and I accept it and I'm not unhappy about it.
In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.
