Endeavor Quotes - Page 37

• I make films as a business, not as a cultural endeavor.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Film

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• What I endeavor to do is shine a light on what happens at the court, both as a law clerk and then as a litigator litigating and winning major cases in front of the Supreme Court over and over and over again.

  Ted Cruz

  Winning, Light, Law

  Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. June 29, 2015.

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• I endeavor to shine a light on what's happening behind closed doors in the back-door deal making that so many Americans understand is going on but they don't quite understand how or why, but they know that our elected leaders are lying to us.

  Ted Cruz

  Lying, Light, Doors

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.

  Barbara Sher

  Dream, Wish, Humans

  Barbara Sher (1979). “Wishcraft: How to Get what You Really Want”

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• To look for total satisfaction in oneself is a futile endeavor. Since everything changes from moment to moment, where can self and where can satisfaction be found? Everybody is unhappy simply because of unfilled desire. Everybody is looking for something that isn't available.

  Ayya Khema

  Self, Unhappy, Desire

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• To be a biographer is a somewhat peculiar endeavor. It seems to me it requires not only the tact, patience, and thoroughness of a scholar but the stamina of a horse.

  Nancy Milford

  Horse, Peculiar, Scholar

  Nancy Milford (2001). “Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay”, p.11, Random House

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• I believe persistence is a major key to success in any great endeavor. I want to remind folks to PERSIST in whatever they are tackling at the moment!

  Andy Andrews

  Believe, Persistence, Keys

  "Andy Andrews: Inspirational Speaker, Best Selling Author and Patriot". Interview with Bonnie Bartel Latino, billco-outdoors.blogspot.com. September 3, 2013.

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• Comedians dissect jokes all the time. Comedians are beautiful structuralists. But ultimately it's an athletic endeavor.

  Stephen Colbert

  Beautiful, Athletic, Comedian

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• The wide open nature of any truly creative artistic endeavor is one of its most important virtues, and one of its harshest realities. Only the most determined, hardest working, capable and creative will make their way to earning a good living by their art.

  Mike Svob

  Art, Reality, Creative

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• We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.

  Henry Fielding

  Opposites, Vices, Virtue

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• A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sleep, Naps, Lectures

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.3045, e-artnow

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• Whether hunting is right or wrong, a spiritual experience, or an outlet for the killer instinct, one thing it is not is a sport. Sport is when individuals or teams compete against each other under equal circumstances to determine who is better at a given game or endeavor. Hunting will be a sport when deer, elk, bears, and ducks are... given 12-gauge shotguns. Bet we'd see a lot fewer drunk yahoos (live ones, anyway) in the woods if that happened.

  Richard Lerner

  Sports, Spiritual, Team

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• It's not whether the glass is half empty or half full, it's who is pouring the water. The key in business and success at any endeavor is doing your best to control your destiny. You can't always do it, but you have to take every opportunity you can to be as prepared as-and ahead of-the competition as you possibly can be.

  Mark Cuban

  Inspiration, Winning, Opportunity

  Mark Cuban (2011). “How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It”, p.88, Diversion Books

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• Love is the only endeavor in which knowing what you're doing is no help at all.

  Neil Lowe

  Love, Dream, Knowing

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• True Godliness doesn't turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it, and excites their endeavors to mend it. ...We have nothing that we can call our own; no, not our selves: for we are all but Tenants, and at Will, too, of the great Lord of our selves, and the rest of this great farm, the World that we live upon.

  William Penn

  Men, Self, World

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• His Majesty the King requires that the Royal Chancellery in all written documents endeavor to write in clear, plain Swedish.

  Charles XII of Sweden

  Kings, Writing, Majesty

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• She had the kind of eyes that predisposed you to supporting her every endeavor.

  John Green

  Hipster, Eye, Kind

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.21, Penguin

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• Now bring what we have into common stock, and communicate to everyone in need; we who hated and destroyed one another, and on account of their different tribe, now since the coming of Christ, live familiarly with them, and pray for our enemies, and endeavor to persuade those who hate us unjustly, to the end that they may become partakers of the same joyful hope of a reward from God the ruler of all.

  Justin Martyr

  Faith, Hate, Enemy

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• For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and whoever strives after it, is striving after something divine. True painting is only the image of the perfection of God, a shadow of the pencil with which he paints, a melody, a striving after harmony.

  Michelangelo

  Religious, Perfect, Soul

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• My confidence is placed in God who does not need our help for accomplishing his designs. Our single endeavor should be to give ourselves to the work and to be faithful to him, and not to spoil his work by our shortcomings.

  Isaac Jogues

  Faith, Inspiration, Giving

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• If we cannot be decent, let us endeavor to be graceful. If we can't be moral, at least we can avoid being vulgar.

  Langdon Elwyn Mitchell

  Ethics, Morality, Vulgar

  Langdon Elwyn Mitchell (1908). “The New York idea: a comedy in four acts”

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• A self-conscious society will therefore endeavor to limit sect forming by providing for the widest possible diffusion of secular knowledge.

  Edward Alsworth Ross

  Religious, Self, Liberty

  Edward Alsworth Ross (1920). “The Principles of Sociology”

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• No volleyball play can begin without a serve, and the serve is the only technique that is totally under your control. In other endeavors, you cannot succeed without believing in yourself, and that belief is completely under your control.

  Karch Kiraly

  Inspirational, Funny, Volleyball

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• Thoreau said: "I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor." That is not only an encouraging statement, it is also an empowering one. It means you can accomplish a lot by applying your brainpower and then moving forward with it.

  Donald Trump

  Encouragement, Moving, Mean

  Donald Trump (2010). “Think Like a Champion: An Informal Education In Business and Life”, p.20, Vanguard Press

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• In my 45-year career as an investment counselor, humility did show me the need for worldwide diversification to reduce risk. That career did help me to become more and more humble because statistics showed that when I advised a client to buy one stock to replace another, about one-third of the time the client would have done better to ignore my advice. In other endeavors, humility about how little I know has encouraged me to listen more carefully and more wisely.

  John Templeton

  Humble, Optimistic, Humility

  "Sir John Templeton: Mixing Science, Religion, and Humility" by T George Harris, sirjohntempleton.org. September 01, 2001.

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