Spurs Quotes - Page 12

• [Research] suggests that what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating on automatic pilot, and the way we think and act – and how well we think and act on the spur of the moment – are a lot more susceptible to outside influences than we realize.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Thinking, Research, Spur Of The Moment

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• I have a different idea of elegance. I don't dress like a fop, it's true, but my moral grooming is impeccable. I never appear in public with a soiled conscience, a tarnished honor, threadbare scruples, or an insult that I haven't washed away. I'm always immaculately clean, adorned with independence and frankness. I may not cut a stylish figure, but I hold my soul erect. I wear my deeds as ribbons, my wit is sharper then the finest mustache, and when I walk among men I make truths ring like spurs.

  Edmond Rostand

  Cutting, Men, Ideas

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  Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

  Edmund Burke

  Encouraging, Encouragement, Mind

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• I'm not going anywhere. You can print that wherever you want to. I'm here and I'm a Spur for life.

  Tim Duncan

  Want, Print

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• Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Justice, Soul, Publicity

  establishment in France. Collected in John Bowring (ed) Works (1838-43), vol.4.

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• Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

  Harold W. Dodds

  Insecurity, Force, Insecurity And Fear

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• The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?

  Jules Verne

  Distance, Circles, League

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)”, p.165, Jules Verne

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