Overcoming Quotes - Page 12

• I think what was special about 'Music by Prudence' was the classic story of the title subject's life path - from being an outcast in her society because she was disabled, to someone who picked herself from that despair and elevated herself within that community, and now that society accepting her as much as they formerly rejected her. People identified with that journey, overcoming an obstacle, but still triumphing.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Journey, Thinking, People

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I think if we work together, if we overcome the divisiveness that sometimes sets Americans against one another, and instead we make some big goals, there's nothing in my opinion that America can't do.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, America, Goal

  "Transcript of the Second Debate". www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.

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• Power and speed aren't enough to overcome someone who is strategic, who knows what you'll do before you do it and can turn it on you; someone who is mentally engaged and combines the whole package.

  Conor McGregor

  Speed, Enough, Turns

  "Conor McGregor On The Truth In Trash Talk, Custom Suits And His Knitting Circle". Interview with Joel Balsam, www.askmen.com.

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• Mao challenged the idea that economic planning would dissolve conflicts of interest among the people. He saw it dialectically - conflicts between intellectuals and manual workers, between the city and the countryside, stratification in the party and society. He said it was necessary to struggle to overcome these differences whether it takes 100 or 500 years.

  Harry Magdoff

  Struggle, Party, Years

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• There have been a lot of hip-hop artists who have made a difference to people's lives, spreading the message of the struggle and representing for those who have overcome adversity.

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad

  Struggle, Adversity, Artist

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• I love when I get stories of young women that have overcome things such as birth defects that they've been hated on for or even just their own body confidence stories.

  Ariel Winter

  Birth Defects, Stories, Body

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I'd love to get ideas on overcoming jet lag.

  William Gurstelle

  Ideas, Lag, Jet

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• Where the states are dead set on suppressing political opposition, it's very hard to overcome that.

  Jill Stein

  Political, States, Suppressing

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• Difficulties can't be eliminated from life. Individuals will always have them, countries will always have them...The only thing is to accept them, if possible overcome them, otherwise to come to terms with them. It's all right to fight, yes, but only when it's possible.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country, Fighting, Individual

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• As I always say, I do not wish you an easy time, but I wish you that whatever difficulty you may have, you will overcome it.

  Indira Gandhi

  Wish, May, Easy

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• We have consciousness and rational powers but unless you're willing to spend the time to gain control of yourself, gain control of your emotions, to think deeply about what you want in a year or two, or where you want your business to be, you're going to be swept away by every new event that occurs in the course of the day or the week and the small amount of time that you plan, that you address to conscious planning, is never enough to overcome the constant tide of emotions and new things happening.

  Robert Greene

  Thinking, Years, Two

  Source: dilanka.cc

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• I am a community social psychologist and a lot of my work deals with social work and helping people overcoming addiction and trauma.

  Chath Piersath

  Overcoming Addiction, People, Community

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Many people have overcome that home situation simply by having at least one caring adult, whether a teacher, mentor or religious leader.

  James Redford

  Teacher, Religious, Home

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• The point with Buddhism is that it doesn't just tell you to be good, it tells you how. It doesn't just say, "Don't be angry," it shows us the methods to help us not to be angry. It gives techniques for everything that it advises us to cultivate, and all the negative qualities we need to overcome and transform.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Buddhism, Giving, Quality

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• Buddhism helps us to overcome our endless ego grasping mind to open up to something so much more spacious and genuinely meaningful.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Meaningful, Buddhism, Ego

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• I don't claim to know a lot about Mexico, but I did talk to quite a number of left Mexican intelectuals, and they all said the same thing. That there's a lot of popular, kind of, concern and activism, but it is very fragmented. That the groups have very specific, narrow agendas and they don't interact and cooperate with one another. Ok, that's something you have to overcome to build a mass popular movement. And that's, media can help, but they also benefit from it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Media, Numbers, Mexican

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• When we turn our gaze to the inside, it becomes difficult to locate this familiar sense of self. To overcome that fear we need to feel special in some way.

  Roger Housden

  Self, Special, Needs

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• What we need to recognize, less than 1 percent of the people organized around issues that are already supported by conservatives and liberals, and there are a lot of them that aren't publicized, back home, can overcome corporate forces in Washington.

  Ralph Nader

  Home, Issues, People

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• In America, we have struggled too much, too long as a country trying to overcome racism and sexism and homophobia. We cannot go back to a more discriminatory society.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, America, Long

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• All of the barriers to innovation in the energy sector are arguments for a big commitment to public investment. Only the public sector can make the kind of long-term, common investments that we need to overcome those barriers to innovation.

  Ted Nordhaus

  Commitment, Long, Innovation

  "The Death of Environmentalism?: Questions for Ted Nordhaus and Michael Schellenberger (and Newt Gingrich!)". The Amazon Book Review Interview, www.amazonbookreview.com. November 29, 2007.

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• You could almost say that throughout human history there are people who can either foresee consequences or who are capable of looking for information and predicting the consequences will happen, but the vast majority of people won't respond to climate change until their city is underwater, food supply is disrupted or everyone around them is dying of zoonotic disease. It's almost like someone dealing with an addiction, like you hope that the person can overcome the addiction before the addiction kills them.

  Moby

  Cities, People, Addiction

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I noticed that when I was on Prozac my relationship with the landscape improved. I actually stopped thinking about myself for a minute or two, because most of the thoughts one has about oneself are involved with desire or loneliness or isolation or strategies to overcome them.

  Leonard Cohen

  Loneliness, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wanted to look right. I remember a review - a very positive one - in The New York Times that said I was so good in the role [Earl Mills] that I "even managed to overcome a terrible red wig." I wanted to write her and tell her about the agony I'd gone through with the perm, but I thought better of it.

  Brent Spiner

  New York, Writing, Agony

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There were some ups and downs. But it is about how you overcome those ups and downs.

  David Wilkerson

  Ups & Downs

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• We're not really brought up in a culture where we believe we're meant to be happy, that peace is our birthright. It's not what we're taught; quite the opposite, actually. With all the expectations and the negative stories going on in the world, we have a lot to overcome.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Believe, Opposites, Expectations

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