Culmination Quotes

• My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.

  Hugh Leonard

  Life, Past, Moments

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• As is commonly said, ‘to start anything is simple; to develop it and bring it to a successful culmination takes great effort.’

  Haile Selassie

  Successful, Simple, Effort

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• Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Life, Time, Past

  "Is Civilization Progress?". Reader's Digest, July 1964.

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• A dream needs a powerful push to move into manifestation. You give it that power by making your dream as clear as possible in your mind, turning it into specific goal or goals, putting the goals into a time line and knowing what the culmination of that dream looks like.

  Meera Lester

  Dream, Powerful, Moving

  Meera Lester (2009). “365 Ways to Live Happy: Simple Ways to Find Joy Every Day”, p.113, Adams Media

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• This is the culmination of a lot of people's vision. I think this is just another step towards making Central Michigan football among the elite programs in the Mid-American Conference.

  Kevin Kelly

  Football, Thinking, People

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• Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Inspirational, Success, Failure

  "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 02, 2015.

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• Success is rarely the result of one swell swoop, but more often the culmination of many, many small victories.

  Joseph M. Marshall III

  Victory, Results, Small Victories

  Joseph M. Marshall III (2002). “The Lakota Way: Stories and Lessons for Living”, p.143, Penguin

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• All the different ways God has chosen to display his glory in creation and redemption seem to reach their culmination in the praises of his redeemed people. God governs the world with glory precisely that he might be admired, marvelled at, exalted and praised. The climax of his happiness is the delight he takes in the echoes of his excellence in the praises of the saints.

  John Piper

  Echoes, People, Excellence

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• The principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible.

  George Polya

  Knowledge, Math, Principles

  George Pólya (1948). “How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method”

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• Most educated people are aware that we are the outcome of nearly 4 billion years of Darwinian selection, but many tend to think that humans are somehow the culmination. Our sun, however, is less than halfway through its lifespan. It will not be humans who watch the sun’s demise, 6 billion years from now. Any creatures that then exist will be as different from us as we are from bacteria or amoebae.

  Martin Rees

  Science, Thinking, Years

  "The Catastrophist" by Christopher Hitchens, www.theatlantic.com. January 2010.

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• National pride is the culmination of a lifetime public relations campaign of psychological mind-control techniques.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Pride, Mind, Technique

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• Enlightenment is the culmination of self-knowledge, pure unadulterated knowledge. Not knowledge you can get from reading a book, it comes from perfecting your awareness, your mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Book, Reading, Self

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• There are ten thousand states of mind. The culmination of the states of mind you have gone through will create your next lifetime.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Gone, Next

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• I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience.

  Billy Joel

  Technology, Culture, Egotism

  Song: Running On Ice, Album: The Bridge, 1986

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• I'm always trying to be the best, on and off the pitch, is also very important. I've always taken things very seriously, since I was very young, and that's reflected in my career. Always being nominated, winning trophies for the club or individual awards, that's the culmination of many years of dedication, hard work and professionalism and that makes me very happy.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Taken, Hard Work, Winning

  Source: www.msn.com

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• I turned down a lot of easier opportunities in order to go for the things that I really and ultimately wanted to do. And what's really nice is that it's starting to work. I've been an actor for coming up on 14 years now and the level of activity that's taking place now is a culmination of a slow cooker approach to as opposed to a microwave.

  David Oyelowo

  Nice, Opportunity, Order

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• Daren Hardy's The Compound Effect is a culmination of success principles that is relevant to anyone who needs it! As a thought leader, he is making a significant contribution to our industry. A wonderful book!

  Stedman Graham

  Book, Leader, Principles

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• I'm attracted to good writing. When I read the page and I know what we're after and where we're headed, and I'm fortunate enough to respect that idea and am able to pitch myself toward that, that feels like the culmination of everything that I've spent my life trying to do, since I played that tree in that play in third grade.

  Dallas Roberts

  Writing, Ideas, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• Re-introducing Aquaman and getting him to a place like that and then ultimately having him headline a Justice League storyline that crosses over between his book and Justice League really is the culmination of where we've been going with the character since the beginning. His role in this will change the Justice League storyline, it will change him, and it will send them both in new directions.

  Geoff Johns

  Book, Character, League

  Source: www.ign.com

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• Life is a place where it is necessary to move gently. Whether it be in thought, speech, or action, the rhythm must be controlled; the law of harmony must be observed in all that one does. If there is anything that will bring satisfaction it is diving deep into Love, and then we shall realize that there is nothing which is not just; we shall never again say that anything is unjust. This is the point the wise reach, and they call it the culmination of wisdom.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Life, Wise, Moving

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• Laughter. Yes, laughter is the Zen attitude towards death and towards life too, because life and death are not separate. Whatsoever is your attitude towards life will be your attitude towards death, because death comes as the ultimate flowering of life. Life exists for death. Life exists through death. Without death there will be no life at all. Death is not the end but the culmination, the crescendo. Death is not the enemy it is the friend. It makes life possible.

  Rajneesh

  Death, Attitude, Laughter

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• The greatest mystery in life is not life itself, but death. Death is the culmination of life, the ultimate blossoming of life. In death the whole life is summed up, in death you arrive. Life is a pilgrimage towards death. From the very beginning, death is coming. From the moment of birth, death has started coming towards you, you have started moving towards death.

  Rajneesh

  Death, Moving, Blossoming

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• When you sit down to design something, it can be anything, a car, a toaster, a house, a tall building or a shoe, what you draw or what you design is really a culmination of everything that you've seen and done in your life previous to that point.

  Tinker Hatfield

  Shoes, Car, House

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• There is one thing that, when cultivated and regularly practiced, leads to deep spiritual intention, to peace, to mindfulness and clear comprehension, to vision and knowledge, to a happy life here and now, and to the culmination of wisdom and awakening. And what is that one thing? It is mindfulness centred on the body

  Gautama Buddha

  Spiritual, Happy Life, Vision

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• It's hard to say. Whenever you play with a group of people for a long time it influences the way that you play with others. They were all very defining in their own way and all affected the band in one way or another. I don't think they are so obvious in the music. The fact is that The Lawrence Arms is the culmination of a long search of trying to find people who play well as a unit.

  Chris McCaughan

  Thinking, Play, Long

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