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• A Socialist United States of Europe seems to me the only worth-while political objective today

  George Orwell

  Europe, Political, United States

  George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison (2001). “Orwell and politics: Animal farm in the context of essays, reviews and letters selected from the complete works of George Orwell”, Penguin Modern Classics

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• My objective is and has been for years to make the lightest and most compact flying machine that would carry me at 25 or 30 miles per hour for 10 minutes or a quarter of an hour. Current events show this is not at all an ambitious project. Want of an elementary knowledge of oil machines baulks me and causes much misdirected effort. I doubt my ability to acquire that knowledge, and feel like a fireman trying to hew out a donkey pump.

  Lawrence Hargrave

  Adventure, Years, Oil

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• I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Cameras, Way

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• The objective of two lovers is almost always the same; to find meaning in their individual lives and in their life together.

  Paul Pearsall

  Relationship, Two, Together

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• We live in a time of global transformation. The power on Earth no longer lies with the forces of imperialistic globalisation, but with those groups who are now connecting with the forces of transformation. It is not terror and violence, but trust and solidarity which will lead the new world. This is not just a wishful dream, but the objective reality of the coming epoch.

  Dieter Duhm

  Dream, Lying, Reality

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• All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression. To call this expression abstract seems to me often to confuse the issue. Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract . . . a realistic or non-objective approach makes no difference. The result is what counts.

  Richard Diebenkorn

  Mean, Artist, Expression

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• Yoga’s supreme objective is to awaken an exalted state of spiritual realization, yet the tradition also teaches you how to live and how to shape your life with a commanding sense of purpose, capacity, and meaning. In the end, yoga has less to do with what you can do with your body and more to do with the happiness that unfolds from realizing your full potential.

  Rod Stryker

  Spiritual, Yoga, Full Potential

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• It takes energy, mental toughness and spiritual reinforcement to successfully deal with life's opportunities, and to reach your objectives.

  Zig Ziglar

  Spiritual, Opportunity, Energy

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 13, 2014

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• Remember that your perception of the world is a reflection of your state of consciousness. You are not separate from it, and there is no objective world out there. Every moment,
  your consciousness creates the world that you inhabit.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Reflection, Perception, World

  Eckhart Tolle (2004). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.198, New World Library

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• Old Newtonian physics claimed that things have an objective reality separate from our perception of them. Quantum physics, and particularly Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, reveal that, as our perception of an object changes, the object itself literally changes.

  Marianne Williamson

  Reality, Uncertainty Principle, Perception

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• When an actor is completely absorbed by some profoundly moving objective so that he throws his whole being passionately into its execution, he reaches a state we call inspiration.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Moving, Inspiration, Actors

  Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “An Actor Prepares”, p.268, A&C Black

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• I try to be objective. I do not claim to be detached.

  C. Wright Mills

  Trying, Claims, Detached

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• Everything we do, our every objective, must be undertaken for the sake of... purity of heart... we must practice the reading of the Scripture, together with all the other virtuous activities... to hold our hearts free of the harm of every dangerous passion and in order to rise step by step to the high point of love.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Reading, Passion

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• Establish specific objectives, and move steadily toward them. A rudder won't control a drifting boat; it must be underway. Similarly, you need to be moving forward to gain control of your life.

  Richard G. Scott

  Moving, Control Of Your Life, Achievement

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• Manage by objectives. Tell people exactly what you want them to do and then get out of their way.

  Brian Tracy

  Humorous, People, Want

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Effective Leadership”, p.10, Jaico Publishing House

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• There is something which unites magic and applied science (technology) while separating them from the "wisdom" of earlier ages. For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline , and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wise, Reality, Men

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• Almost all of the stories in The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan are told in the first person, yet, depending on the angle and distance of the narrator, they exert different effects. The best are those in which the speaker never poses as an objective outsider. (...) Other stories are damaged by the urge to distance the narrator.

  Yiyun Li

  Football, Distance, Narrators

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• What is drawing? Not once in describing the shape of the mass did I shift my eyes from the model. Why? Because I wanted to be sure that nothing evaded my grasp of it... My objective is to test to what extent my hands already feel what my eyes see.

  Auguste Rodin

  Eye, Hands, Drawing

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• In India there was a sense of time that does not tick with modern clocks, just as there is a knowledge that is not gained through science and empirical experiments. In the modern West knowledge is of objective, finite particulars in historical time. India recognizes that kind of useful information: it calls it "lower knowledge." Higher knowledge (paravidya) proceeds differently, or rather it doesn't proceed at all but enters history full-blown on the morning of a new creation.

  Huston Smith

  Morning, Science, Historical

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• Strong families cultivate an attribute of effective communication. They talk out their problems, make plans together, and cooperate toward common objectives.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Strong, Communication, Together

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• If we keep a goal firmly in mind, we will know when we have reached it. This gives us a sense of accomplishment and the challenge of establishing fresh, new goals - always keeping the long-range objective in mind. If we can state our goals clearly, we will gain a purpose and meaning in all our actions.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Long, Generosity, Giving

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• Someone has said that planning is the place where man shows himself most like God. Nothing is more godlike than the planner, the thinker, the organizer. He is the one who draws the blueprint for success. He is the one who builds the roadway on which accomplishment will travel. It is likely that our greatest opportunity is to have a good set of definitely worked-out objectives that are fully believed in and about which firm determinations have been made.

  Sterling W Sill

  Determination, Men, Opportunity

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• Religion is like our appendix, a vestigial remnant from a primitive past. Perhaps in a few millennia the god of Abraham will invoke the same curious amusement as rain and sun gods do today. Or perhaps our god will simply be shelved along with Zeus and Jupiter. Some day. But until then, we suffer the consequences of a population that believes in the absence of evidence and, more curiously, rejects an objective reality that conflicts with beliefs easily proven false.

  Jeff Schweitzer

  Rain, Believe, Past

  "Pareidolia in Politics: The Face of Faith’s Corrupting Influence". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2015.

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• God's love is as objective as light. Because the sun in a sense is light, or the source of light rather than being lit, it really gives its light to the earth. And because the earth really receives light from the sun, it is really transformed every morning from darkness to light. Just as objectively, because God is love, God really gives love to us. And because we receive real life-changing love from God, we are really transformed from darkness to light.

  Peter Kreeft

  God, Morning, Real

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.20, Ignatius Press

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• You go ahead, stand still, or go backwards in life.
  Your objective should be to go ahead.

  Napoleon Hill

  Should, Backwards, Stills

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