Reaching Quotes - Page 29

• You have to want weight-loss success so badly that no mountain, river, or ocean could keep you from reaching your goals. If you have that drive, passion, and commitment, there is no way you won’t get there.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Ocean, Commitment, Passion

  Jennifer Hudson (2012). “I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down”, p.104, Penguin

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• Dream big; at least you will have the joy of reaching for the stars instead of living in a box filled with unopened gifts.

  David Robinson

  Motivational, Dream, Stars

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• Global military spending levels constitute an unconscionable use of resources and remain at an all-time high, reaching a total of USD 1.75 trillion in 2012, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Military, Levels, Use

  "UN Expert Urges States to Cut Military Spending and Invest More in Human Development". www.ohchr.org. April 14, 2014.

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• just sitting does not involve reaching some understanding. It is the subtle activity of allowing all things to be completely at rest just as they are, not poking one's head into the workings of the world.

  John Daido Loori

  Understanding, Doe, Sitting

  John Daido Loori (2010). “The Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza (Large Print 16pt)”, p.10, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We are born in innocence. ... Corruption comes later. The first fear is a corruption, the first reaching for something that defies us. The first nuance of difference, the first need to feel better than the different one, more loved, stronger, richer, more blessed -- these are corruptions.

  Laura Z. Hobson

  Blessed, Feel Better, Differences

  Laura Z. Hobson (2011). “Gentleman's Agreement”, p.106, Open Road Media

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• We need many more intrepid women who set out to expand both their and our concepts of the world. We need them in writing just as we need them in politics. We need that sense of adventure, of reaching wider, delving deeper, pushing further afield, whether that field be geographical, intellectual, political, personal, or all of these and more. Enough with decorousness. Let us risk preconceptions and treasured philosophies, bodies and souls. Let us be big and bawdy and full of courage. Let's go.

  Lesley Hazleton

  Philosophy, Writing, Adventure

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• I already had the sense that I was someone who was more spiritual than specifically religious. ... I'm really interested in those things that are more far-reaching than culture, nationality, race, religion.

  Emma Watson

  Spiritual, Religious, Race

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Honestly, on so many levels, I feel like motherhood has prepared me even better for directing than film school because all it is is troubleshooting and dealing with different personalities and emotions and trying to make everybody happy and at the end of the day reaching your own personal goals and agendas.

  Christine Swanson

  School, Motherhood, Goal

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I believe in helping the planet survive, and that includes reaching out to help some of the disappearing creatures whose habitats we're destroying. It's up to us to somehow reverse that trend. I don't know how we'll achieve it, but we need to.

  Morgan Freeman

  Believe, Needs, Habitat

  "Morgan Freeman–born to be Morgan". Interview with Kam Williams, www.philasun.com. April 11, 2011.

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• Compelling spectacles are not to reach a niche market, it could be for reaching a niche marketing but on a grand scale. This is for grand marketing.

  Robert Greene

  Marketing, Niche, Scales

  Source: www.josephbushnell.com

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• Such a person needs meditation more than anyone else because they are headed for a crisis. If stress and anxiety are so great that you can't even imagine a calm clear mind, that indicates you are reaching your coping limits, and need to begin something like meditation just for the stress reduction benefits.

  Deepak Chopra

  Stress, Meditation, Anxiety

  "Questions About Meditation You Were Too Embarrassed To Ask, Explained By Deepak Chopra". Interview with Whitney Jefferson, www.buzzfeed.com. August 7, 2014.

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• Key to the societal significance of tomorrow's leaders is the way they embrace the totality of leadership, not just including 'my organization' but reaching beyond the walls as well.

  Frances Hesselbein

  Wall, Keys, Organization

  Frances Hesselbein (2002). “Hesselbein on Leadership”, p.9, John Wiley & Sons

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• Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

  Bodhidharma

  Suffering, Way, Existence

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.51, Macmillan

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• All of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their fullest extent. ... And every life must be chalked up at least a partial failure when it does not succeed in reaching its inherent destiny.

  Smiley Blanton

  Destiny, Succeed, Doe

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• The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end of religion. 'Religion' means here the division between sacred and secular concerns, other-worldliness, man's reaching toward God in a way which projects his own thoughts.

  David Edward Kirk

  Mean, Men, Division

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• While thinking when sober, our success at reaching our goals by using the First Baltic Front troops, the Memel operation, it can't be disregarded, that the troops not only honorably accomplished their powerful strategic operation, but also an infusion of victory for the Soviet armed forces and an entrance into the final stages of the war.

  Ivan Bagramyan

  Powerful, War, Thinking

  "A Photo Album About A Soviet Marshal". Book by Ivan Bagramyan, 1987.

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• Mastering an art is like reaching the top of the passion mountain.... at the top the passion dies out! So keep learning.

  Siddharth Katragadda

  Art, Passion, Mountain

  "The Other Wife: A Novel in Verse". Book by by Siddharth Katragadda, 2003.

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• Reaching deep into the heart of the reader, Cindy Woodsmall pens a beautifully lyrical story in her debut novel When the Heart Cries.

  Tamera Alexander

  Heart, Stories, Cry

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• I wrote 'Reaching for the Moon' because I wanted to tell kids that all of us have a moon, a dream, that we can strive for. Even if you don't attain it, you can at least reach for it.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Dream, Kids, Moon

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• We all have different timetables in reaching and realizing that being in healthy partnership is better than being on our own.

  Hill Harper

  Healthy, Different, Realizing

  "On Love: Building meaningful relationships in black community". Online chat, www.washingtonpost.com. November 30, 2009.

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• Reaching toward perfection in any one thing should lift us higher in all things; it should beget a habit of application and thoroughness.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Perfection, Effort, Habit

  Julia McNair Wright (1895). “Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household”

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• women, when describing their roles in their organizations, usually referred to themselves as being in the middle of things. Not at the top, but in the center; not reaching down, but reaching out.

  Sally Helgesen

  Organization, Roles, Middle

  Sally Helgesen (2011). “The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership”, p.45, Crown Business

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• So many of us are reaching out, hoping someone out there will grab our hands and remind us we are not as alone as we fear.

  Roxane Gay

  Hands, Reach Out, Hoping Someone

  Roxane Gay (2014). “Bad Feminist: Essays”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping away the sentimentality which makes Mother's Day and Best American Mother Contests, the truth is that women suffer all the effects of a minority.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Mother, Race, Profound

  Pearl S. Buck (1941). “Of Men and Women”

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• Reaching out takes nothing more than a smile.

  Ron Kaufman

  Service Culture, Culture, Reach Out

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