Short Lived Quotes

• Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

  Joseph Addison

  Passion, Admiration And Respect, Decay

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1778). “The Spectator”, p.26

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  Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

  Wayne Dyer

  Motivational, Graduation, Dream

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• The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

  Mark Twain

  Positive, Death, Spiritual

  "A Voice Crying In The Wilderness". Book by Edward Abbey, 1989.

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• Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

  Dion Boucicault

  Life, Inspiring, Death

  'London Assurance' (1841) act 2, sc. 1.

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• Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Motivational, Strength

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Begin doing what you want to do now.

  Marie Beynon Lyons Ray

  Short Life, Life Is Too Short, Procrastination

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  Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

  James Dean

  Life, Change, Positive

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Difference between motivation and inspiration - Motivation is external and short lived. Inspiration is internal and lifelong

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Motivation, Inspiration, Differences

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• One reason there are so many short-lived management fads is that their prescriptions were derived and advocated in precisely this way. So managers read about a fad and try it, find that it doesn't work, abandon the effort, and move on to the next thing. In reality, it is usually the case that the faddish prescription was indeed sound advice in certain circumstances, but actually was poor advice in other circumstances.

  Clayton Christensen

  Moving, Reality, Effort

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• Regaining favor with your worst enemy is a satisfactory but short lived relief.

  Joseph O. Shelby

  Hate, Worst Enemy, Relief

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• Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree, I have looked on our present state of liberty as a short-lived possession unless the mass of the people could be informed to a certain degree.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, People, Liberty

  Thomas Jefferson (2017). “LETTERS”, p.709, 右灰文化傳播有限公司可提供下載列印

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• Moments of crisis, like the shooting in Newtown, tend to produce brief spikes of popular interest in gun control. My research on media attention suggests these spikes are extremely short-lived, and that they may be decreasing in intensity.

  Ethan Zuckerman

  Gun, Media, Attention

  "Mourn, and take action on guns" by Ethan Zuckerman, www.cnn.com. December 16, 2012.

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• Do not give to the poor expecting to get their gratitude so that you can feel good about yourself. If you do, your giving will be thin and short-lived, and that is not what the poor need; it will only improvish them further. Give only if you have something you must give; give only if you are someone for whom giving is its own reward.

  Dorothy Day

  Gratitude, Giving, Feel Good

  "Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation". Book by Parker Palmer, pp. 48-49, 1999.

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• Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.

  Francis Quarles

  Plato, Prejudice, World

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• Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Respect, Passion

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1856). “The Spectator”, p.318

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• He makes His ministers a flame of fire. Am I ignitible? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of 'other things.' Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame. But flame is transient, often short lived. Canst thou bear this, my soul - short life? ... Make me thy fuel, Flame of God.

  Jim Elliot

  Short Life, Godly, Fire

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• The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.

  John Quincy Adams

  Government, Democracy, Age

  John Quincy Adams (1839). “The Jubilee of the Constitution: A Discourse Delivered at the Request of the New York Historical Society, in the City of New York, on Tuesday, the 30th of April, 1839; Being the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Inauguration of George Washington as President of the United States, on Thursday, the 30th of April, 1789 ...”, p.53

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• We go, in winter's biting wind, On many a short-lived winter day, With aching back but willing mind To dig and double dig the clay.

  Ruth Pitter

  Winter, Wind, Mind

  Ruth Pitter (1969). “Collected poems”

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• Any regeneration project that fails to put environmental and social benefits at its very heart is unlikely to achieve anything more than a very short-lived spasm of spurious prosperity

  Jonathon Porritt

  Future, Heart, Vision

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• And I didn't. That's why my career was very short-lived.

  Kitty Carlisle

  Careers

  "Kitty Carlisle Hart" by Michael Freedland, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2007.

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• Some argue that our success is short-lived and temporary. So, we now need to make efforts to constantly expand the player base by offering services and titles that can appeal, not only to those who have never played games, but also to those who play them hard.

  Satoru Iwata

  Player, Offering, Games

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• The sweetness of love is short-lived, but the pain endures.

  Thomas Malory

  Pain, Love Is, Endure

  Sir Thomas Malory (1962). “Le morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the legends of the Round Table”, Signet

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• As designers we have a great responsibility. I believe designers should eliminate the unnecessary. That means eliminating everything that is modish because this kind of thing is only short-lived.

  Dieter Rams

  Believe, Mean, Responsibility

  "Looks familiar? Apple classics and their 1960s ancestors" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2008.

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• The applause of the audience is short-lived. When calls resound for an encore, we are called to direct our attention to our Master.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Attention, Applause, Masters

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