Ultimate Quotes - Page 20

• I plot as I go. Many novelists write an outline that has almost as many pages as their ultimate book. Others knock out a brief synopsis... Do what is comfortable. If you have to plot out every move your characters make, so be it. Just make sure there is a plausible purpose behind their machinations. A good reader can smell a phony plot a block away.

  Clive Cussler

  Block, Moving, Book

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• Wisdom is the ability to realize that everyone has their own dharma, everyone goes their own way. What works for you is not the ultimate good. Know that other people have different way.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wisdom, Buddhism, People

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• The ultimate intelligence of all things is your essence. Your mind is the universe. Your body is all things.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wisdom, Buddhism, Essence

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• Whenever you are in a perceptual field, it seems like it's ultimate. It's a self-wrapping consciousness. There doesn't seem or appear to be anything else other than the attention field that you're in.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Buddhism, Self

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• People on this planet are currently preparing to blow themselves up in ultimate thermonuclear wars. We are living among beings whose state of mind is destruction.

  Frederick Lenz

  War, Buddhism, Blow

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• If we immerse ourselves in the ultimate good, we will have this silly smile on our face or perhaps just inside our hearts. That is what illumination is.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Silly, Heart

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• I always think about which blood drive was going on in Georgia that day when that husband or mom or school teacher rolled up their sleeve and actually gave me a second chance at life. It's the ultimate gift of life, and I'm the one who was on the other end.

  Niki Taylor

  Mom, Teacher, Husband

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• My Soul to Keep is the ultimate love story with a black man and a black woman. I call it the ultimate love story. It's about an immortal. We're shooting for this Fall and that's been a six year development right there.

  Blair Underwood

  Fall, Men, Years

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• That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there.

  Alan Vega

  Halfway There, Long, Promise

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• The ultimate lesson of The Interpretation of Dreams: reality is for those who cannot sustain the dream.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Dream, Reality, Knowledge And Power

  Slavoj Žižek (2001). “Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?”, Verso Books

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• When we talk of flood control, we usually think of dams and deeper river channels, to impound the waters or hurry their run-off. Yet neither is the ultimate solution, simply because floods are caused by the flow of water downhill. If the hills are wooded, that flow is checked. If there is a swamp at the foot of the hills, the swamp sponges up most of the excess water, restores some of it to the underground water supply and feeds the remainder slowly into the streams. Strip the hills, drain the boglands, and you create flood conditions inevitably. Yet that is what we have been doing for years.

  Hal Borland

  Running, Thinking, Rivers

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• Labor is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission of emancipating the workers of the world from the thraldom of the ages is as certain of ultimate realization as is the setting of the sun.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Labour Movement, Realization, Organized Labor

  "An Ideal Labor Press". The Metal Worker, May 1904.

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• Disguise is central to God's way of dealing with us human beings. Not because God is playing games with us but because the God who is beyond our knowing makes himself known in the disguise of what we can know. The Christian word for this is revelation, and the ultimate revelation came by incarnation. ... God is the master of disguises, in order that we might see.

  Richard John Neuhaus

  Christian, Playing Games, Order

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• Christ, as the ultimate Imago Dei is alluded to in scripture as being without external beauty in the Classical sense, and should better be thought of as one who passed through all the slime and mire of a fallen and sinful creation in order to redeem it. His own body is to be remembered for the marks it bears-even in resurrection-of the scars of his sacrificial death. For the Christian, a theory of beauty might better begin at this point.

  John Walford

  Beauty, Christian, Order

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• Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Power, Destiny, Men

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• The ultimate story of success: When a nobody, who has never once in his entire life known the feeling of being remembered or respected, suddenly snaps and becomes a world dictator. On one hand it sounds just, but on the other, it illustrates the reason why a prosperity message has and needs its limitations.

  Criss Jami

  Hands, Feelings, Contentment

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.104, Criss Jami

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• Ultimate prosperity is one's value within. It takes a man of depth, morality, and charm to be envied yet without a sign of wealth or romance. A passion to prove such inner worth is his permission to achieve whatever he desires.

  Criss Jami

  Passion, Men, Romance

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.61, Criss Jami

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• I'm just trying to really take it one day at a time, because for me - and I know this sounds cliche, whatever - I achieved my ultimate goal, and nothing can really top that, you know?

  Nastia Liukin

  Goal, Trying, One Day

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• I think it's science and physics are just starting to learn from all these experiments. These experiments have been carried out hundreds and hundreds of times in all sorts of ways that no physicist really questions the end point. I think that these experiments are very clearly telling us that consciousness is limitless and the ultimate reality.

  Robert Lanza

  Reality, Thinking, Way

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• Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy.

  Seth Lloyd

  Memories, Space, Energy

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• The amount of information that can be stored by the ultimate laptop, 10 to the 31st bits, is much higher than the 10 to the 10th bits stored on current laptops.

  Seth Lloyd

  Information, Laptops, Currents

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• I guess winning an Oscar is the ultimate dream. A lot of amazing actors go their whole career without even being nominated. So that would definitely be a goal to reach. It's a difficult one, but I'm aiming for it!

  Taylor Lautner

  Dream, Winning, Careers

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• I had many boxing matches with my brother in the backyard when we were younger, and I guess while other people abhor boxing for its brutality, I also have to admire anyone who climbs into the ring to face up to what could be the ultimate defeat.

  Markus Zusak

  Brother, People, Boxing

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• Fox opposes a Syria peace plan because its modus operandi is to foment dissent in the form of a relentless and irrational contrarianism to Barack Obama and all things Democratic, to advance its ultimate objective of creating a deliberately misinformed body politic whose fear, anger, mistrust, and discontent is the manna upon which it sustains its parasitic succubus-like existence.

  Jon Stewart

  Creating, Body, Foxes

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• I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture.

  Tom Waits

  Song, Children, Men

  "Tom Waits gives the devil his due". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2009.

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