Lasting Quotes - Page 39

• We often praise 'the ability to multi-task.' While you can learn when you divide your attention, divided attention doesn't lead to aiding change in your brain maps [lasting changes].

  Norman Doidge

  Lasting Change, Brain, Attention

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• After the initial critical learning period of youth is over, the areas of the brain that need to be 'turned on' to allow enhanced, long lasting learning can only be activated when something important, surprising, or novel occurs, or if we make the effort to pay close attention.

  Norman Doidge

  Knowledge, Long, Effort

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• The storyteller is one who comes bearing a great and lasting gift.

  Edward Eggleston

  Storyteller

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• If you want to achieve widespread impact and lasting value, be bold.

  Howard Schultz

  Teaching, Learning, Impact

  Howard Schultz, Dori Jones Yang (1997). “Pour your heart into it: how Starbucks built a company one cup at a time”

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• ... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably a bitterly disappointed woman. A game of chess will cure such a conceit forever. The woman that knows the most, thinks the most, feels the most, is the most. Intellectual affection is the only lasting love. Love that has a game of chess in it can checkmate any man and solve the problem of life.

  Charles Dickens

  Growing Up, Women, Thinking

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• [S]ervants of darkness had no lasting joy in their service. In all of them the will for darkness was a perversion of the will for the light. In all but a few maniacs the satisfaction of the will for darkness was at all times countered by a revulsion which the unhappy spirit either dared not confess even to itself, or else rejected as cowardly and evil.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Light, Evil, Joy

  Olaf Stapledon (1974). “Darkness and the light”, Hyperion Pr

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• The scars from mental cruelty can be as deep and long-lasting as wounds from punches or slaps but are often not as
  obvious. In fact, even among women who have experienced violence from a partner, half or more report that the man's emotional abuse is what is causing them the greatest harm.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Men, Emotional, Long

  Lundy Bancroft (2003). “Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men”, p.32, Penguin

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• It has always seemed somewhat paradoxical to me that we must constantly have the Lord command us to do those things which are for our own good. The Lord has said, 'He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.' (Matt. 10:39.) We lose our life by serving and lifting others. By so doing we experience the only true and lasting happiness. Service is not something we endure on this earth so we can earn the right to live in the celestial kingdom. Service is the very fiber of which an exalted life in the celestial kingdom is made.

  Marion G. Romney

  Lasting Happiness, Earth, Kingdoms

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• I think we all mistake certain things for happiness. I think we mistake comfort for happiness and we mistake pleasure for happiness, and entertainment for happiness, when really these are just things we use as proxies for our happiness. We use them to cheer us up or try and achieve brief happiness, when really happiness is something much more profound and long lasting and exists within us.

  Simon Pegg

  Cheer, Mistake, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Simon Pegg from Aug 11, 2014

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• Our regular fitness programme means that the race lasting longer than others should not be a problem, but something you have to prepare for in Singapore is ensuring you always keep well-hydrated, as the heat and humidity can easily dehydrate you.

  Romain Grosjean

  Mean, Race, Heat And Humidity

  "Singapore GP: Romain Grosjean, Lotus - Q&A". Interview, www.crash.net. September 15, 2013.

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• Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Beauty, Female, Faces

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• As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity: And by a plain method of argument, as we are running the next generation into debt, we ought to do the work of it, otherwise we use them meanly and pitifully. In order to discover the line of our duty rightly, we should take our children in our hand, and fix our station a few years farther into life; that eminence will present a prospect, which a few present fears and prejudices conceal from our sight.

  Thomas Paine

  Family, Running, Children

  Thomas Paine (2006). “Common Sense: Addressed to the Inhabitants of America”, p.25, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Beauty vanishes; virtue is lasting.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beauty, Virtue

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• Love is richest, most genuine, and most long lasting when you focus on being yourself and doing everything you can to make it possible for the other person to be him- or herself.

  Mira Kirshenbaum

  Being Yourself, Love Is, Long

  Mira Kirshenbaum (2005). “Everything Happens for a Reason: Finding the True Meaning of the Events in Our Lives”, p.160, Harmony

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• The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Suffering, Positive Change, Trauma

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• Trying to change ourselves doesn't work in the long run because we're resisting our own energy. Self-improvemen t can have temporary results, but lasting transformation occurs only when we honor ourselves as the source of wisdom and compassion.

  Pema Chodron

  Running, Compassion, Self

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• If you raise your standards but don't really believe you can meet them, you've already sabotaged yourself. You won't even try; you'll be lacking the sense of certainty that allows you to tap the deepest capacity that's within you... Our beliefs are like unquestioned commands, telling us how things are, what's possible and impossible and what we can and can not do. They shape every action, every thought and every feeling that we experience. As a result, changing our belief systems is central to making any real and lasting change in our lives.

  Tony Robbins

  Real, Believe, Lasting Change

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Aug 20, 2012

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• Country music fans are extremely passionate and loyal. It seems that country artists have longer-lasting careers because the fans stick with the artists through thick and thin.

  Miranda Lambert

  Country, Artist, Careers

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• The two-party system has served America very well. We always have political movements one way or another but the evolution of a lasting third party probably will not happen.

  Dan Quayle

  Party, Two, America

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Marriage isn't about winning. It's about lasting.

  Mark Gorman

  Marriage, Winning, Positive Marriage

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• I do not need to establish a deep, lasting, time-consuming personal relationship with every student. What I must do is to be totally and nonselectively present to the student-to each student-as he addresses me. The time interval may be brief but the encounter is total.

  Nel Noddings

  Relationship, Education, Time

  Nel Noddings (1984). “Caring, a Feminine Approach to Ethics & Moral Education”, p.180, Univ of California Press

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• Whoever is acquainted with the cruel injustice and unjust subordination frequently manifested in the family, whoever sees matters of lasting and supreme importance relative to the beginning and continuance of the family determined by momentary fancy or unreasoning passion, cannot but desire the construction of a social fabric in which reason may rule with perfect justice.

  Charles Franklin Thwing

  Passion, Perfect, Justice

  Charles Franklin Thwing, Carrie Frances Butler Thwing (1886). “The Family: An Historical and Social Study”

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• Honesty is the best policy in international relations, interpersonal relations, labor, business, education, family and crime control because truth is the only thing that works and the only foundation on which lasting relations can build.

  Ramsey Clark

  Honesty, Foundation, Business Education

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• All ancient books which have once been called sacred by man, will have their lasting place in the history of mankind, and those who possess the courage, the perseverance, and the self-denial of the true miner, and of the true scholar, will find even in the darkest and dustiest shafts what they are seeking for,-real nuggets of thought, and precious jewels of faith and hope.

  Max Muller

  Perseverance, Real, Book

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• While it is all very well to distinguish happiness that is transient from that which is lasting, between ephemeral and genuine happiness, the only happiness it is meaningful to speak of when a person is dying from thirst is access to water.

  Dalai Lama

  Meaningful, Water, Dying

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