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Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.

William Feather

Self Confidence, People, Delay

William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires rigid determination and almost mindless self-abnegation. One other factor is difficult to predetermine: without a certain admixture of hysteria - sometimes masking as self-obsession, sometimes even counterfeiting incipient madness - performers, at once acrobats, artists, and animals, make little public impression.

Lincoln Kirstein

Dance, Determination, Artist

Lincoln Kirstein (1970). “Four Centuries of Ballet: Fifty Masterworks”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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...the world is a giant community now. This excuse of distance, time, doesn't work...We're all so connected. We can't spend every second of our lives worrying about another family miles away but we somehow have to factor it in where we can.

Ralph Fiennes

Distance, Helping Others, Worry

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Fitness will be a major factor in the first race and I think that will play into the hands of drivers who have been racing recently, rather than people like me who haven't raced properly for a decade. I'am not one of the favourites to start with.

Nigel Mansell

Sports, Athlete, Thinking

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As for the presence of large NGF [nerve growth factor] sources in snake venom and male genital organs, they may be conceived as instances of bizarre evolutionary gene expression.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

Science, Expression, Snakes

"The Saga of the Nerve Growth Factor: Preliminary Studies, Discovery, Further Development".

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In addition to the leadership of the Party, a decisive factor is our population of 600 million. More people mean a greater ferment of ideas, more enthusiasm and more energy. Never before have the masses of the people been so inspired, so militant and so daring as at present.

Mao Zedong

Party, Mean, Ideas

Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.25, Lulu.com

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Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as well as for many other non-communicable diseases.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

Cancer, Osteoporosis, Smoking

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Being engaged in some way for the good of the community, whatever that community, is a factor in a meaningful life. We long to belong, and belonging and caring anchors our sense of place in the universe.

Patricia Churchland

Meaningful, Atheist, Caring

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The only constant factor in life is our feelings and attitudes toward life. One of the few things that we have total control over is our own attitude.

Jim Rohn

Attitude, Feelings, Life Is

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How can we love days that are filled with sorrow? We can't-at least not in the moment. I don't think my mother was suggesting that we suppress discouragement or deny the reality of pain. I don't think she was suggesting that we smother unpleasant truths beneath a cloak of pretended happiness. But I do believe that the way we react to adversity can be a major factor in how happy and successful we can be in life.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Mother, Pain, Believe

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We have the can-do factor, and us doing what we do I think inspires people to just try that little bit harder, whether they are able-bodied or disabled.

Lee Pearson

Athlete, Thinking, People

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There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that you are somehow above normality. I think that is a mistake to start believing that. But, at the same time, it is important to be confident.

Damon Hill

Sports, Mistake, Believe

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Of these three essential factors, space might be said to be one with which biogeography is primarily concerned. However space necessarily interplays with time and form, therefore the three factors are as one of biogeographic concern.

Leon Croizat

Science, Space, Essentials

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We do not draw conclusions with our eyes, but with our reasoning powers, and if the whole of the rest of living nature proclaims with one accord from all sides the evolution of the world of organisms, we cannot assume that the process stopped short of Man. But it follows also that the factors which brought about the development of Man from his Simian ancestry must be the same as those which have brought about the whole of evolution.

August Weismann

Nature, Eye, Science

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A chance is what you take before you think about it. A calculated risk is what you take after you have evaluated all possible factors and have determined that risk

Craig Elliott

Adventure, Thinking, Risk

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The determining factor of my existence is no longer my past.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

Christian, Jesus, Past

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Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power of a thorough consecration, the ability of self-littleness, an absolute losing of one's self in God's glory and an ever present and insatiable yearning and seeking after all the fullness of God.

Edward McKendree Bounds

Prayer, Educational, Self

Edward McKendree Bounds (1907). “Preacher and Prayer”

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To strive in prayer means to struggle through those hindrances which would restrain or even prevent us entirely from continuing in persevering prayer. It means to be so watchful at all times that we can notice when we become slothful in prayer and that we go to the Spirit of prayer to have this remedied. In this struggle, too, the decisive factor is the Spirit of prayer.

Ole Hallesby

Prayer, Struggle, Mean

Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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In Hong Kong, Dallas, or at home —and regardless of whether or not I have been to bed — breakfast is a personal ritual that can only be properly observed alone, and in a spirit of genuine excess. The food factor should always be massive: four Bloody Marys, two grapefruits, a pot of coffee, Rangoon crepes, a half pound of either sausage, bacon, or corned beef hash with diced chilies , a Spanish omelette or eggs Benedict, a quart of milk, a chopped lemon for random seasoning, and something like a slice of Key lime pie, two margaritas, and six lines of the best cocaine for dessert.

Hunter S. Thompson

Coffee, Eggs, Two

"Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson".

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Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.

Bill Shoemaker

Success, Congratulations, Athlete

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The single most important factor in determining America's success in the 21st century will be maintaining our ability to be an innovative and creative society.

Ron Kind

Success, Congratulations, America

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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

Edsger Dijkstra

Congratulations, Luxury, Elegance

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The fatigue was there, but some people understood that putting it aside was the single most important factor in succeeding.

Seth Godin

Perseverance, Determination, People

Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.62, Penguin

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It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear.

Rutherford B. Hayes

Country, Patriotic, People

Fourth State of the Union Address, December 6, 1880.

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The essential factor of military success is speed, that is taking advantage of others' unpreparedness or lack of foresight, their failure to catch up, going by routes they do not expect, attacking where they are not on guard. This you cannot accomplish with hesitation.

Sun Tzu

Art, Military, War

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