Endeavor Quotes - Page 27

• The English invented cricket to make other human endeavors look interesting.

  Bill Bryson

  Interesting, Looks, Cricket

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• Persistence is important in every endeavor. Whether it's finishing your homework, completing school, working late to finish a project, or "finishing the drill" in sports, winners persist to the point of sacrifice in order to achieve their goals.

  Leon F. "Lee" Ellis

  Sports, School, Sacrifice

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• While prudence will endeavor to avoid this issue of war, bravery will prepare to meet it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Issues, Bravery

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• For scientific endeavor is a natural whole the parts of which mutually support one another in a way which, to be sure, no one can anticipate.

  Albert Einstein

  Support, Way, Natural

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• So avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won't do in your essays.
  What you do today is important, because you are sacrificing a day of your life for it.
  Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

  Mark Twain

  Tired, Sacrifice, Men

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• No effort is complete without prayer - without definite recognition that the best human endeavor is of no effect if it has not God's blessing behind it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Blessing, Effort

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• Meditation is really a non-doing. It is the only human endeavor I know of being where you already are.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Meditation, Humans, Knows

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• He that sees another in error and endeavors not to correct it, testifies himself to be in error.

  Pope Leo I

  Errors

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• Even if it is indifferent to human desires, as it seems to be; if human life is a passing episode, hardly noticeable in the vastness of cosmic processes; if there is no superhuman purpose, and no hope of ultimate salvation, it is better to know and acknowledge this truth than to endeavor, in futile self-assertion, to order the universe to be what we find comfortable.

  Bertrand Russell

  Order, Self, Desire

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• Our lives depend on recognizing that human cloning, like all forms of 'playing God,' is a moral, life-promoting endeavor.

  Alex Epstein

  Cloning, Moral, Form

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• God gave me the talent and I endeavor to give it back to Him with each new idea.

  Dino Kartsonakis

  Ideas, Giving, Talent

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• These days people are much more aware that mathematics is a communal endeavor: even the most brilliant idea gets meaning only from its relation to the whole.

  Dusa McDuff

  Ideas, People, Brilliant

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• However gemlike mathematical truths may be, research is but a human endeavor.

  H. David Burton

  Research, May, Mathematical

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• Endeavor to work as hard as possible to attain a new aim with each day that comes by. Don't go to bed until you have achieved something productive

  Aliko Dangote

  Bed, Each Day, Aim

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• Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the psychic predecessor of all real understanding. An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality, in mechanical work as in other endeavors.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Real, Acceptance, Keys

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• Businesses and other human endeavors are also systems. They, too, are bound by invisible fabrics of interrelated actions, which often take years to fully play out their effects on each other. Since we are part of that lacework ourselves, it's doubly hard to see the whole pattern of change. Instead we tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts of the system, and wonder why our deepest problems never seem to get resolved.

  Peter Senge

  Years, Play, Focus

  "The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization". Book by Peter Senge, 1990.

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• Sometimes I find myself at three o'clock in the morning painting something and throwing things around and seeing what works. I'd like to properly study fine art. I think it would be quite an interesting endeavor.

  Ben Schnetzer

  Art, Morning, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Anyone will succeed in whatever field of endeavor in life by acquiring the same virtues and character that boxing world champions do - dedication, perseverance, courage, extreme self-discipline and prayers

  Manny Pacquiao

  Perseverance, Prayer, Character

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• Whoever strenuously endeavors, him we can rescue.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Rescue

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• Education is a holistic endeavor that involves the whole person, including our bodies, in a process of formation that aims our desires, primes our imagination, and orients us to the world - all before we ever start 'thinking' about it

  James K. A. Smith

  Thinking, Imagination, Desire

  James K. A. Smith (2009). “Desiring the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies): Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation”, p.39, Baker Academic

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• Calvinism is the consistent endeavor to acknowledge the Creator as the Lord, working all things after the counsel of His will.

  J. I. Packer

  Lord, Calvinism, Consistent

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• If God exists then every good endeavor, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling can matter forever.

  Timothy Keller

  Forever, Matter, Calling

  Timothy Keller (2012). “Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work”, p.14, Penguin

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• To live in love is life's greatest challenge. It requires more sublety, flexibility, sensitivity, understanding, acceptance, tolerance, knowledge and strength than any other human endeavor.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Acceptance, Love Is, Understanding

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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• The larger the mass of collected things, the less will be their usefulness. Therefore, one should not only strive to assemble new goods from everywhere, but one must endeavor to put in the right order those that one already possesses.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Order, Strive, Should

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• I love to design. I am a commercial fashion designer. I always design jackets with two sleeves. I don't design jackets with three sleeves, or the layers and layers come off like little dolls from Russia. Fashion for me is a creative endeavor, but it is not art for me.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Art, Two

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