Constant Quotes - Page 39

• Eating healthy is a constant battle. I love chips. I'm a huge pasta fan.

  Hayden Panettiere

  Healthy, Battle, Pasta

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• In business, there's a constant focus on developing strategies, reviewing executive performance against those strategies each year, engaging with opposing or different points of view, and having intellectual dialogue.

  Jeff Raikes

  Views, Years, Focus

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• The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.

  George Saunders

  Pain, Kindness, Law

  George Saunders (2012). “The Brain-Dead Megaphone”, p.55, A&C Black

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• The one thing that I love about the live audience is the energy level. Like, from the minute of cast introductions, it's just constant energy being traded back and forth. When you do something funny, the audience laughs; when you're being serious, you can, like, feel the tension going through the audience.

  Jonathan Sadowski

  Laughing, Energy, Levels

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• Not one is constant, but everything is changing.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Change

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.26, Advaita Ashrama

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• The body and mind are continually changing, and are, in fact, only names of series of changeful phenomena, like rivers whose waters are in a constant state of flux, yet presenting the appearance of unbroken streams. Every particle in this body is continually changing; no one has the same body for many minutes together, and yet we think of it as the same body.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Change, Thinking, Names

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.25, Advaita Ashrama

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• For a country boy, poor as I was, whose constant worry was to be able to have enough to eat, the Army guaranteed one's survival.

  Mo Yan

  Country, Army, Boys

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• Entropy is Janus-faced. Its upside surprises are redemptive and favorable to freedom. It is freedom of choice. But the carrier itself requires constant vigilance against entropic noise. Order is not spontaneous, but it is a necessary condition for all the surprises of freedom and opportunity.

  George Gilder

  Opportunity, Order, Choices

  George Gilder (2013). “Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World”, p.84, Regnery Publishing

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• The devil is in constant conspiracy against a preacher who really prays, for it has been said that what a minister is in his prayer closet is what he is, no more, no less.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Prayer, Devil

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• As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial.

  Criss Jami

  Feelings, Relaxation, Excellence

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.130, Criss Jami

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• I write about adversity, I praise adversity, not to be pessimistic, but rather to strengthen myself. The more familiar that you are with it, the less likely you are to have a breakdown when it occurs. You become more reflective of its purpose, you understand God's reason for it, and are then able to make the best of everything that you are handed. The darkness is only frightening after constant sunshine.

  Criss Jami

  Fear, Writing, Adversity

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.110, Criss Jami

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• In the age of technology there is constant access to vast amounts of information. The basket overflows; people get overwhelmed; the eye of the storm is not so much what goes on in the world, it is the confusion of how to think, feel, digest, and react to what goes on.

  Criss Jami

  Fear, Eye, Technology

  Criss Jami (2012). “Venus in Arms”, p.22, Criss Jami

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• One of the nice things about being a private company is operating without the intensity of public glare. It's hard to grow a company under a microscope of constant second guessing.

  Sarah Lacy

  Nice, Guessing, Intensity

  "The Irony of the Social Media Era: It Was Created By the World’s Least Social People" by Sarah Lacy, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2012.

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• It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.

  Alexei Sayle

  Parent, Political

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• You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty. I don't want to live any other way.

  Tom Waits

  Writing, Self, Order

  "Tom Waits: 'I'm a night-owl reporter' - a classic interview from the vaults". Interview with Richard Cromelin, www.theguardian.com. August 7, 2012.

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• Go for the impossible. I always tried to find my own limits. So far I did not find them, so my universe is in constant expansion.

  Paulo Coelho

  Expansion, Limits, Impossible

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 03, 2011

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• If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.

  Twyla Tharp

  Art, Love You, Maintenance

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• The corollary of constant change is ignorance. This is not often talked about: we computer experts barely know what we're doing. We're good at fussing and figuring out. We function well in a sea of unknowns. Our experience has only prepared us to deal with confusion. A programmer who denies this is probably lying, or else is densely unaware of himself.

  Ellen Ullman

  Lying, Ignorance, Sea

  Ellen Ullman (2012). “Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents”, p.110, Macmillan

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• Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change. A company that stands still will soon be forgotten. Trying to provoke positive change is a principle we've embedded across the Virgin family for more than four decades.

  Richard Branson

  Change, Trying, Stories

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• They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.

  Camille Paglia

  Civilization, Savages, Fragility

  Camille Paglia (2017). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.261, Vintage

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• One of my themes is that there is good and evil in everyone. I was not out to make these guys heroes. I really don't believe in heroes. The best of people have a dark side and it's a constant struggle for the better side to survive and to thrive.

  William Friedkin

  Believe, Struggle, Hero

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• On the surface it seems that the present moment is only one of many, many moments. Each day of your life appears to consist of thousands of moments where different things happen. Yet if you look more deeply, is there not only one moment, ever? Is life ever not this moment? This one moment, now, is the only thing you can never escape from. The one constant factor in your life. No matter what happens. No matter how much your life changes. One thing is certain. Its always now. Since there is no escape from the now, why not welcome it, become friendly with it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Life Changing, Friendly, Different

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.39, New World Library

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• We must learn to cast off our anxieties because we have so many of them. The world destroys spiritual life by generating constant anxiety. Jesus said that the life of the gospel is choked out by the cares of this world. We know this to be true yet we are more chained and tethered to the world than ever before in the human race.

  John Ortberg

  Spiritual, Jesus, Race

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• In ancient China, the Taoists taught that a constant inner smile, a smile to oneself, insured health, happiness and longevity. Why? Smiling to yourself is like basking in love: you become your own best friend. Living with an inner smile is to live in harmony with yourself.

  Mantak Chia

  Love, Inspirational, Best Friend

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• While I'm optimistic about the direction the world is headed, generally, I think there is a need for constant vigilance and pressure on repressive governments.

  Jimmy Wales

  Optimistic, Thinking, Government

  "Q&A: Jimmy Wales Reflects on a Decade of Wikipedia". Wired.co.uk Interview, www.wired.com. January 11, 2011.

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