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• It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.

  Aristotle

  Life, Archer, Purpose

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• Life means to have something definite to do-a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty. Human life, by its very nature, has to be dedicated to something.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Life, Mean, Emptiness

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• He had no plans, no definite intentions, except to kiss her lips again, to hold her in his arms.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Kissing, Arms, Lips

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Flappers and Philosophers”, p.210, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• In the spirit of faith let us begin each day, and we shall be sure to " redeem the time " which it brings to us, by changing it into something definite and eternal. There is a deep meaning in this phrase of the apostle, to redeem time. We redeem time, and do not merely use it. We transform it into eternity by living it aright.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Time, Phrases, Use

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• First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Money

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• He who does not at some time, with definite determination consent to the terribleness of life, or even exalt in it, never takes possession of the inexpressible fullness of the power of our existence.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Life, Determination, Doe

  "Selected Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke, 1960.

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• All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Evolution, Vague, Knows

  Charles Sanders Peirce, Kenneth Laine Ketner (1992). “Reasoning and the logic of things: the Cambridge conferences lectures of 1898”, Harvard Univ Pr

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• We are the accidental result of an unplanned process ... the fragile result of an enormous concatenation of improbabilities, not the predictable product of any definite process.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Science, Evolution, Process

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• I have worked to free shape from its ground, and then to work the shape so that it has a definite relationship to the space around it; so that it has a clarity and a measure within itself of its parts (angles, curves, edges and mass); and so that, with color and tonality, the shape finds its own space and always demands its freedom and separateness.

  Ellsworth Kelly

  Curves, Color, Space

  Madeleine Grynsztejn, Ellsworth Kelly, Julian Myers, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2002). “Ellsworth Kelly in San Francisco”, p.9, Univ of California Press

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• Your automatic creative mechanism is teleological. That is, it operates in terms of goals and end results. Once you give it a definite goal to achieve, you can depend upon its automatic guidance system to take you to that goal much better than "you" ever could by conscious thought. "You" supply the goal by thinking in terms of end results. Your automatic mechanism then supplies the means whereby.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Mean, Thinking, Giving

  Maxwell Maltz (1960). “Psychocybernetics”

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• Anarchism is no patent solution for all human problems, no Utopia of a perfect social order, as it has often been called, since on principle it rejects all absolute schemes and concepts. It does not believe in any absolute truth, or in definite final goals for human development, but in an unlimited perfectibility of social arrangements and human conditions which are always straining after higher forms of expression, and to which for this reason one can assign no definite terminus nor set any fixed goal.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Believe, Expression, Order

  Rudolf Rocker (2004). “Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice”, p.15, AK Press

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• Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.

  Napoleon Hill

  Think And Grow Rich, Action, Ends

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “Your Magic Power to be Rich!”, p.62, Penguin

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• If you don’t have a plan, you will fail, and you can quote me.”  You need a definite plan, it should be written down, and it should dictate, with military precision, the moves that you will be taking.  Napoleon Hill said, “First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality.

  Napoleon Hill

  Military, Moving, Reality

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• Any man is educated who knows where to get knowledge when he needs it, and how to organize that knowledge into definite plans of action.

  Napoleon Hill

  Men, Needs, Action

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.67, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Death was too definite an object to be wished for or avoided.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Avoided, Objects

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850). “The Scarlet Letter”, p.213

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• The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with bass notes or dark lake with treble.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Dark, Lakes, Color

  Wassily Kandinsky (1955). “Concerning the spiritual in art, and painting in particular: 1912”

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• Body', 'soul', and 'spirit' may designate phenomenal domains which can be detached as themes for definite investigations; within certain limits their ontological indefiniteness may not be important. When, however, we come to the question of man's Being, this is not something we can simply compute by adding together those kinds of Being which body, soul, and spirit respectively possess--kinds of being whose nature has not as yet been determined. And even if we should attempt such an ontological procedure, some idea of the Being of the whole must be presupposed.

  Martin Heidegger

  Men, Ideas, Soul

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• The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

  James Madison

  Government, United States, Charity

  James Madison (1836). “The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: As Recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. Together with the Journal of the Federal Convention, Luther Martin's Letter, Yates's Minutes, Congressional Opinions, Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of '98-'99, and Other Illustrations of the Constitution”, p.431

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• When I was about 17 or 18, I finally admitted to myself that I wasn't going to change. I didn't know what the consequences would be, but I had the definite feeling that it was going to wreck my Disney career

  Tommy Kirk

  Careers, Feelings, Would Be

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• A model is a good model if first it interprets a wide range of observations in terms of a simple and elegant model, and second if the model makes definite predictions that can be tested, and possibly falsified, by observation.

  Stephen Hawking

  Simple, Firsts, Predictions

  "Audio: Stephen Hawking’s Best Quotes" by Adam Mann, www.wired.com. January 8, 2012.

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• I project a definite innocence. A lot of that is just the way I grew up.

  River Phoenix

  Way, Innocence, Grew Up

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Well - Patriotism has its laws. And it also is a perfectly definite one, there are not vaguenesses about it. It commands that the brother over the border shall be sharply watched and brought to book every time he does us a hurt or offends us with an insult.

  Mark Twain

  Hurt, Brother, Book

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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• Only in the steady and constant application of force lies the very first prerequisite for success. This persistence, however, can always and only arise from a definite spiritual conviction. Any violence which does not spring from a firm, spiritual base, will be wavering and uncertain.

  Adolf Hitler

  Spiritual, Religious, Spring

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The secret of making something work in your lives is first of all, the deep desire to make it work; then the faith and belief that it can work; then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

  Eileen Caddy

  Inspirational, Believe, Work Out

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• The more clear and definite you make your picture then,and the more you dwell upon it, bringing out all its delightful details, the stronger your desire will be, and the stronger your desire, the easier it will be to hold your mind fixed upon the picture of what you want.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Mind, Vision, Desire

  Wallace D. Wattles, General Press (2016). “The Science of Getting Rich”, p.27, GENERAL PRESS

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