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• A life best lived is a life by design. Not by accident, and not by just walking through the day careening from wall to wall and managing to survive. That's okay. But if you can start giving your life dimensions and design and color and objectives and purpose, the results can be staggering.

  Jim Rohn

  Wall, Color, Giving

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• Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not
  simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some
  sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can
  understand.

  John Polkinghorne

  World, Structure, Quantum

  "Divine Action". Interview with Lyndon F. Harris, "Cross Currents", Volume 48, Issue 1, www.aril.org. Spring 1998.

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• Language is capable of becoming the objective repository of vast accumulations of meaning and experience, which it can then preserve in time and transmit to following generations.

  Peter L. Berger

  Generations, Becoming, Language

  Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann (2011). “The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge”, p.59, Open Road Media

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• Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida's most important objective - to trigger revolutions.

  Gijs de Vries

  Important, Als, Revolution

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• Everything that is, was, and will be, eternally IS, even the countless forms, which are finite and perishable only in their objective, not in their ideal Form.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Objectivity, Form, Finite

  H. P. Blavatsky (2008). “The Origins of Self-Consciousness in The Secret Doctrine”, p.71, Theosophy Trust Books

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• Build wealth as a by product of your business success. If wealth is your only objective in business, you will probably fail.

  J. Paul Getty

  Business Success, Wealth, Failing

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• We must never underestimate our opponents; nor should we forget that the closer we come to reaching our objectives, the more vicious and forthright will their opposition become.

  Tommy Douglas

  Opponents, Underestimate, Forget

  Tommy Douglas' address at the Provincial Convention, July 16, 1952.

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• The one object of fifty years of abstract art is to present art-as-art and as nothing else, to make it into the one thing it is only, separating and defining it more and more, making it purer and emptier, more absolute and more exclusive - non-objective, non-representational, non-figurative, non-imagist, non-expressionist, non-subjective. the only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.

  Ad Reinhardt

  Art, Years, Fifty

  Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.53, Univ of California Press

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• A Seed for Contemplation:
  Creative people who cherish the gift of life often slip into the secret chambers of the creative mind. Their solutions are well-rounded, more sensible than those of people who rely solely upon reason as their mainstay. Gratitude unseals fountains of creativity, because a grateful person is relaxed. This allows him to take stock of his circumstances with an objective mind. A creative person often gets three-dimensional answers to his problems. -.

  Harold Klemp

  Gratitude, Grateful, Creativity

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• Scientists who do deny their politics—who claim to be objective and unemotional about gender while living in a world where even boats and automobiles are identified by sex—are fooling both themselves and the public at large.

  Anne Fausto-Sterling

  Sex, World, Boat

  Anne Fausto-Sterling (1992). “Myths of Gender: Biological Theories about Women and Men”, p.12, Basic Books

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• If we want proof of God's love for us, then we must look first at the Cross where God offered up His Son as a sacrifice for our sins. Calvary is the one objective, absolute, irrefutable proof of God's love for us.

  Jerry Bridges

  Son, Sacrifice, Looks

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.143, NavPress

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• If we can find short-term incentives that are consistent with our long-term objectives, it is much easier to make the right decisions in the moment.

  Tom Rath

  Long, Decision, Incentives

  Tom Rath, James K. Harter, Jim Harter (2010). “Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share.

  Celia Green

  Mean, People, Prejudice

  Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton

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• The objective of the Classical Art of Riding is to train the horse not only to be brilliant in the movements and the exercises of the High School but also to be quiet, supple and obedient and by his smooth movements to make riding a true pleasure

  Alois Podhajsky

  Art, Horse, School

  Alois Podhajsky (2013). “The Complete Training of Horse and Rider”, p.25, Doubleday

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• An organization must always remember that its objective is not getting
  people to listen to speeches by experts, but getting them to speak for
  themselves.

  Guy Debord

  Organization, People, Experts

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• God grant, if we must have two eyes, that they may be both clear ones, one the eye of faith wholly fixed on Christ, the other the eye of obedience equally and wholly fixed on the same objective!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Eye, Two, May

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• Allah does not withhold to withhold. Remaking the heart was the objective. To remake it, He sometimes breaks it first.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Heart, Islam, Doe

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• In the visual arts, for example, the semiological approach to graphics provides a rigorous analysis of the visual means used by the artist. It defines the basic properties and laws governing the arts and suggests objective criteria for art criticism.

  Jacques Bertin

  Art, Mean, Law

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• Health is not an objective condition which can be understood by the methods of natural science alone. It is rather a condition related to the mental attitude by which the individual has to value what is essential for his life.

  Ivan Illich

  Attitude, Health, Essentials

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• Most corporate mission statements are worthless. They consist largely of pious platitudes such as: "We will hold ourselves to the highest standards of professionalism and ethical behavior." They often formulate necessities as objectives; for example, "to achieve sufficient profit." This is like a person saying his mission is to breathe sufficiently.

  Russell L. Ackoff

  Risk, Example, Management

  Russell L. Ackoff (1986). “Management in Small Doses”, Wiley

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• They have a choice as a club. They don't have to sell. Maybe Southampton's objectives have changed. They were looking to be a Champions League club, I believe. They obviously wanted to change... I don't have sympathy, no.

  Brendan Rodgers

  Football, Believe, Champions League

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• I want to make rockets 100 times, if not 1,000 times better. The ultimate objective is to make humanity a multiplanet species. Thirty years from now, there'll be a base on the moon and on Mars, and people will be going back and forth on SpaceX rockets.

  Elon Musk

  Future, Moon, Years

  "Elon Musk is betting his fortune on a mission beyond earth's orbit" by Carl Hoffman, www.wired.com. May 22, 2007.

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• Guerrilla war is a test of wills. Obama's actual objectives - rollback in Iraq, containment in Syria - are not unreasonable. But they require commitment and determination. In other words, will. You can't just make one speech declaring war, then disappear and go fundraising.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Determination, War, Commitment

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• Somebody was saying to Picasso that he ought to make pictures of things the way they are-objective pictures. He mumbled that he wasn't quite sure what that would be. The person who was bullying him produced a photograph of his wife from his wallet and said, "There, you see, that is a picture of how she really is." Picasso looked at it and said, "She is rather small, isn't she? And flat?"

  Gregory Bateson

  Bullying, Wife, Perspective

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• There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values.

  David Myers

  Attitude, Reality, Views

  David G. Myers (1993). “Psicología social”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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