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• As I express my gratitude, I become more deeply aware of it. And the greater my awareness, the greater my need to express it. What happens here is a spiraling ascent, a process of growth in ever expanding circles around a steady center.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Gratitude, Circles, Growth

  David Steindl-Rast (1984). “Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer: An Approach to Life in Fullness”, p.49, Paulist Press

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• Trunk steady knocking/ Floating through the sky, Mary Poppins.

  Riff Raff

  Sky, Floating, Trunks

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• Sometimes I have taken photographs and just felt so excited that I could barely hold the camera steady, and the photo was boring.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Taken, Cameras, Sometimes

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• It is known that the taste--whatever it is--is improved exactly as we improve our judgment, by extending our knowledge, by a steady attention to our object, and by frequent exercise.

  Edmund Burke

  Exercise, Attention, Taste

  Edmund Burke (1792). “The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].”, p.87

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• Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Inspirational, Stay Strong, Motivation

  Frankenstein Letter 1 (1818)

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• There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.

  Publilius Syrus

  Wise, Men, Self

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• President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our nation during a time of crisis, provided steady leadership and restored people's faith in the presidency and in government.

  Mark Udall

  Leadership, Country, Integrity

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• Integration proceeds by just the opposite route: a deliberate heightening of every organic function; a release of impulses from circumstances that irrationally thwarted them; richer and more complex patterns of activity; an esthetic heightening of anticipated realizations; a steady lengthening of the future; a faith in cosmic perspectives.

  Lewis Mumford

  Love, Faith, Opposites

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• Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Way

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2061, Manonmani Publishers

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• Like it or not - and often we don't - power is a pervasive phenomenon. From midnight decisions in the Oval Office that risk the lives of young Americans to quarrels over the kitchen table, power is part of every human equation. Yes, it can be - and often is - abused, in business as in all arenas of endeavor. But it can also be used to do great good for great numbers. And as a career-building tool, the slow and steady (and subtle) amassing of power is the surest road to success.

  Tom Peters

  Business, Power, Numbers

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times”, p.43, Vintage

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• And step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Time, Men, Gains

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Narrative and Legendary Poems, Complete Volume I., the Works of Whittier”, p.102, tredition

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• I pull back, gasping for breath. Reeling. His breath is ragged, and I place my hands on his cheeks to steady him. "Is this okay?" I whisper. "Are you okay?" His reply is anguished. Honest. "I love you."

  Stephanie Perkins

  Love, Hands, Honest

  Stephanie Perkins (2014). “Lola and the Boy Next Door”, p.191, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• A single assembly will never be a steady guardian of the laws, if Machiavel is right, when he says, Men are never good but through necessity: on the contrary, when good and evil are left to their choice, they will not fail to throw every thing into disorder and confusion. Hunger and poverty may make men industrious, but laws only can make them good; for, if men were so of themselves, there would be no occasion for laws; but, as the case is far otherwise, they are absolutely necessary.

  John Adams

  Men, Law, Hunger And Poverty

  John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 4: Novanglus, Thoughts on Government, Defence of the Constitution I”, p.304, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The power of applying attention, steady and undissipated, to a single object, is the sure mark of superior genius.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Focus, Attention, Genius

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• I have a car. I have a steady job. I have a business, and I have to make serious decisions.

  Avril Lavigne

  Motivational, Jobs, Car

  Exclusive Avril Lavigne Interview, Slide 5, www.seventeen.com. April 18, 2011.

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• Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Spiritual, Determination, Realization

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• The things that have acquired unity are these: Heaven by unity has become clear; Earth by unity has become steady; The Spirit by unity has become spiritual; The Valley by unity has become full; All things by unity have come into existence.

  Laozi

  Spiritual, Hurt, Heaven

  Laozi (1959). “Tao Tê Ching”

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• The foods that are recommended today are as palatable as a steady diet of wet blotters.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Humor, Loss

  Groucho Marx (2008). “Memoirs Of A Mangy Lover”, p.33, Da Capo Press

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• After the film it was raining, a light steady rain. Ruthless neon on the wet streets like busted candy.

  Denis Johnson

  Rain, Light, Neon

  Denis Johnson (2010). “Nobody Move: A Novel”, p.25, Macmillan

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• The fundamental problem with golf is that every so often, no matter how lacking you may be in the essential virtues required of a steady player, the odds are that one day you will hit the ball straight, hard, and out of sight. This is the essential frustration of this excruciating sport. For when you've done it once, you make the fundamental error of asking yourself why you can't do this all the time. The answer to this question is simple: the first time was a fluke.

  Colin Falconer

  Sports, Golf, Frustration

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• Steady, patient, persevering thinking will generally surmount every obstacle in search of truth.

  Nathanael Emmons

  Thinking, Patient, Obstacles

  Nathanael Emmons (1842). “Works: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.22

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• We must be steady enough in ourselves, to be open and to let the winds of life blow through us, to be our breath, our inspiration . . .

  Mary Caroline Richards

  Inspiration, Blow, Wind

  Mary Caroline Richards (2011). “Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person”, p.12, Wesleyan University Press

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• I have learned to be steady in my course of love, or fear, or loneliness, rather than impulsive in its wasting, either lyrically or emotionally.

  Rosanne Cash

  Loneliness, I Have Learned, Impulsive

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• I was never too interested in high school. I mean, I never went to a dance, I never went out on a date, I never went steady. It became pretty awful for me. Except, of course, I could go see bands, and that was the kick. I used to go to Cleveland just to see any band. So I was in love a lot of the time, but mostly with guys in bands that I had never met. For me, knowing that Brian Jones was out there, and later that Iggy Pop was out there, made it kind of hard for me to get too interested in the guys that were around me. I had, uh, bigger things in mind.

  Chrissie Hynde

  School, Mean, Knowing

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• Keep moving. Don't stop. But don't rush. Don't race around. Sure and steady gets you there every time.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Time, Moving, Race

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