Maximum Quotes - Page 3

• For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum

  Floyd Patterson

  Sports, Confidence, Train Hard

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• Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

  Germaine Greer

  Hate, Women, Memorable

  Germaine Greer (1970). “The female eunuch”, Macgibbon & Kee

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• If I am confirmed, I am confident that my colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee and I will maintain the focus on long-term price stability as monetary policy's greatest contribution to general economic prosperity and maximum employment.

  Ben Bernanke

  Long, Focus, Employment

  "Hearing Regarding Ben Bernanke's Nomination to Be Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve". www.washingtonpost.com. November 15, 2005.

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• It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

  Gerry Adams

  Maintaining The Status Quo, Battle, Challenging The Status Quo

  Gerry Adams (2007). “An Irish Eye”, Brandon Books

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• The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.

  Major Taylor

  Boys, Long, Today

  Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

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• Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Men, Racism, Hatred

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.86, Macmillan

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• I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.

  Michael Phelps

  Change, Swimming, World

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• I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

  Norman Mailer

  Secret, Mind, Literature

  Norman Mailer (2013). “An American Dream: A Novel”, p.153, Random House

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• I have always been very calm on the outside. I'm not too stressed now just because I'm in formula one. For me, tomorrow will be another day whether I finish first or last. I have to do the maximum and I cannot ask any more from myself.

  Fernando Alonso

  Stressed, Lasts, Firsts

  Interview with Richard Williams, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2005.

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• This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.

  Carroll Quigley

  Fear, Persistence, Evil

  Carroll Quigley (1966). “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time”, New York : Macmillan [c1966]

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• People often forget this - a vinyl album could only contain a maximum of 20 minutes per side!

  Ken Hensley

  People, Albums, Sides

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• The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.

  George Steiner

  Impact, Media, Vision

  George Steiner (1991). “Real Presences”, p.27, University of Chicago Press

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• Maybe its a case of one guitar feeling a certain way to the hands that makes one subsequently move differently over the strings, but my intent is always to wring the maximum emotional resonance out of the object in hand.

  Gary Lucas

  Moving, Emotional, Guitar

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• A straight line can readily be drawn among each of the two series of points corresponding to the maxima and minima, thus showing that there is a simple relation between the brightness of the variables and their periods.

  Henrietta Swan Leavitt

  Stars, Simple, Two

  "Periods of 25 Variable Stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud". Harvard College Observatory Circular, vol. 173, (pp. 1-3), 1912.

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• Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Marriage, Wedding, Opportunity

  Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903)

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• Trust and faith bring joy to life and help relationships grow to their maximum potential.

  Joyce Meyer

  Life, Relationship, Faith

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• Look to the nervous system as the key to maximum health.

  Galen

  Keys, Looks, Nervous

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• I absolutely believe that people, unless coached, never reach their maximum potential.

  Robert Nardelli

  Inspirational, Teamwork, Believe

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• The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and ones own biography remain untouched. New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions. It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity.

  William James

  Order, Space, Biographies

  William James (2015). “Pragmatism and the Conception of Thruth”, p.50, William James

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• Great design will not sell an inferior product, but it will enable a great product to achieve its maximum potential.

  Thomas Watson, Jr.

  Design, Achieve, Inferiors

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• I first would allow the guilty bankers to pay, you know, the ability to pay back anything over $100 million [of] personal wealth because I believe in a maximum wage of $100 million. And if they are unable to live on that amount of that amount then they should, you know, go to the reeducation camps and if that doesn't help, then being beheaded.

  Roseanne Barr

  Believe, Bankers, Pay

  "Roseanne Barr: Behead Bankers, Rich Who Won't Give Up Wealth". www.realclearpolitics.com. October 1, 2011.

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• Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maximum.

  Bruce Lee

  Power, Endurance, Speed

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• And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Years, Two, Needs

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• I wish our country could be a free and happy one. Every citizen need not go against their conscience and can find their own place by their virtue and talents; a simple and happy society, where the goodness of humanity is expanded to the maximum, and the evilness of humanity is constrained to the maximum; honesty, trust, kindness, and helping each other are everyday occurrences in life; there is not so much anger and anxiety, a pure smile on everyone’s face.

  Xu Zhiyong

  Country, Honesty, Kindness

  "The Trial of the Chinese Dream" by Evan Osnos, www.newyorker.com. January 17, 2014.

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• Art is a creation of a higher order than a copy of nature which is governed by chance.... By the elimination of all muddy colors, by the exclusive use of optical mixture of pure colors, by a methodical divisionism and a strict observation of the scientific theory of colors, the neo-impressionists insures a maximum of luminosity, of color intensity, and of harmony- a result that has never yet been obtained.

  Paul Signac

  Art, Order, Color

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