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• No-one gets an iron-clad guarantee of success. Certainly, factors like opportunity, luck and timing are important. But the backbone of success is usually found in old-fashioned, basic concepts like hard work, determination, good planning and perseverance.

  Mia Hamm

  Success, Sports, Perseverance

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• Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about. There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a generalization, because it depends on too many factors: size, modulation, the rest of the field, a certain consistency that color has with forms, and the statement you're trying to make.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Color, Consistency, Trying

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• Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor.

  Ellen Goodman

  People, Once Upon A Time, Machines

  Ellen Goodman (1990). “Making Sense”, Penguin Group USA

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• ...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a great many of the factors on which the achievements of our ends and welfare depend.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Ignorance, Achievement, Liberty

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• In the end, the overriding factor in whether or not you realize your dreams is going to be you. Not the world. YOU.

  Russell Simmons

  Dream, World, Realizing

  Twitter post from Jan 23, 2017

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• Focus on all four of your net worth factors: increasing your income, increasing your savings, increasing your investment returns, and decreasing your cost of living by simplifying your lifestyle.

  T. Harv Eker

  Motivational, Money, Cost Of Living

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Mar 29, 2015

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• The essence of knowledge is generalization. That fire can be produced by rubbing wood in a certain way is a knowledge derived by generalization from individual experiences; the statement means that rubbing wood in this way will always produce fire. The art of discovery is therefore the art of correct generalization. ... The separation of relevant from irrelevant factors is the beginning of knowledge.

  Hans Reichenbach

  Art, Knowledge, Mean

  Hans Reichenbach (1973). “The Rise of Scientific Philosophy”, p.5, Univ of California Press

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• In every section of the entire area where the word science may properly be applied, the limiting factor is a human one. We shall have rapid or slow advance in this direction or in that depending on the number of really first-class men who are engaged in the work in question. ... So in the last analysis, the future of science in this country will be determined by our basic educational policy.

  James Bryant Conant

  Country, Educational, Science

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• The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.

  William James

  Science, Mind, Progress

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.298, Courier Corporation

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• We have usually no knowledge that any one factor will exert its effects independently of all others that can be varied, or that its effects are particularly simply related to variations in these other factors.

  Ronald Fisher

  Science, Variation, Experiments

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• The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is very different from the psychology of a language which one accepts of one's free will.

  Edward Sapir

  Psychology, Different, Way

  Edward Sapir, Pierre Swiggers (2008). “General Linguistics”, p.277, Walter de Gruyter

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• The national Government sees in both Christian denominations the most important factor for the maintenance of our society.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Government, Religion

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• It's humbling to realise that the developmental gulf between a miniscule ant colony and our modern human civilisation is only a tiny fraction of the distance between a Type 0 and a Type III civilisation - a factor of 100 billion billion, in fact. Yet we have such a highly regarded view of ourselves, we believe a Type III civilisation would find us irresistible and would rush to make contact with us. The truth is, however, they may be as interested in communicating with humans as we are keen to communicate with ants.

  Michio Kaku

  Distance, Believe, Communication

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• Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Attitude, Finding Happiness

  "Why We Behave". Book by Maurice Cayem, p. 92, 2009.

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• Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Fundamentals, Firsts

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• The one who figures on victory at headquarters before even doing battle is the one who has the most strategic factors on his side.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Victory, Battle

  Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.56, Shambhala Publications

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• I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Believe, Food, Important

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• Today the strategies of many companies in the real estate industry are premised on low interest rates, an assumption that has resulted in the rapid expansion of the real estate securitization business. This trend could be regarded as a risk factor, as it exposes the real estate sector to at least three potential problems: first, interest rate hikes; second, revisions to securitization business accounting standards; and third, overheating in the real estate market.

  Akira Mori

  Business, Real, Risk

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• The future may be made up of many factors but where it truly lies is in the hearts and minds of men. Your dedication should not be confined for your own gain, but unleashes your passion for our beloved country as well as for the integrity and humanity of mankind.

  Li Ka-shing

  Country, Encouragement, Integrity

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• The subconscious mind is probably the most important factor in being a good golfer. It keeps distractions on the course from ruining a good round. You should practice, develop your swing, and do most of your thinking on the practice tee so that when you play in competition, you can hit the ball automatically.

  Wiffy Cox

  Golf, Thinking, Practice

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• What is [the role of money] in the search for meaning? Is our relationship to it one of the chief factors that keeps us in our prison, or could it also be a tool for breaking out, for awakening to a life filled with intensity of purpose?

  Jacob Needleman

  Roles, Tools, Purpose

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• If homosexuality is not caused by genetic factors...then that means it can be acquired... And if it can be acquired, shouldn't we be doing everything in our power to protect people from acquiring it? Shouldn't we lean to the side of protecting the children instead of affirming a scientific hypothesis that has no actual truthful foundation?

  Scott Lively

  Children, Mean, Gay

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• Success isn't winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can't control all of them. Success means doing as excellent a job as you can on that particular day. The people I admire most aren't necessarily the most wonderful athletes. I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.

  Aimee Mullins

  Softball, Sports, Jobs

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• Being gifted intellectually is only a small part of the equation of success. Concentrate on the factors you have control over: persistence, self-discipline, confidence. Far more failures are due to lack of will than lack of ability.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• What are the critical success factors of your job? What must you be absolutely, positively excellent at doing to be successful?

  Brian Tracy

  Softball, Sports, Jobs

  Brian Tracy (1998). “Mastering Your Time”, p.15, Jaico Publishing House

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