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striving
«In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves»
«Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever searching and striving to become the best they possibly can. If we seek the average level we cannot hope to achieve a high level of success. Our only hope is to avoid being a failure.»
Author: A. Lou Vickery
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average, High Hopes, high level, level, level best, monument, partner, possibly, searching, stood, striving, The Monument, turn to
«I learned... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.»
Author: Brenda Ueland
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all the time, bolt, bolted, energetic, flowing, idleness, inspiration, kinetic, prime, primed, prime time, quietly, regularly, slowly, solitude, striving
«In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.»
Author: Edward de Bono
(Psychologist, Writer)
| Keywords:
accurately, appropriate, appropriated, appropriates, appropriating, cost, deal, flexible, flexibly, futures, high and low, low-cost, lower, lowered, lowering, lowers, plural, predict, predicting, Predicts, prepared, striving, various
«Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.»
«I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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«I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifest»
«Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where e»
Author: Dalai Lama
| About:
Mankind,
Perfection,
Possessions,
Power,
Progress,
World
| Keywords:
driven, e'en, external, increasingly, insatiable, materialistic, nowadays, possessions, reaching, striving, vast, zenith
«I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it in to existence or clearing the way for it»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
clearing, clearings, conceive, conceives, conceiving, existence, striving, strivings