Ultimate Quotes - Page 4

• Before I had children I always wondered whether their births would be, for me, like the ultimate in gym class failures. And I discovered instead... that I'd finally found my sport.

  Joyce Maynard

  Sports, Children, Class

  Joyce Maynard (1988). “Domestic affairs: enduring the pleasures of motherhood and family life”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Crowdsourcing is the ultimate disruptor of distribution because in a most Zen-like fashion, the content is controlled by everyone and no one at the same time.

  Jay Samit

  Fashion, Crowdsourcing, Distribution

  Jay Samit (2015). “Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation”, p.205, Macmillan

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• The anniversary of Hiroshima, should be a day of somber reflection, not only on the terrible events of that day in 1945, but also on what they revealed: that humans, in their dedicated quest to extend their capacities for destruction, had finally found a way to approach the ultimate limit.

  Noam Chomsky

  Reflection, Terrible Events, Quests

  Noam Chomsky (2015). “Because We Say So”, p.55, City Lights Books

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• Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does.

  James Hilton

  Thinking, Doe, Cost

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• God allows and at times causes us to go through the kinds of circumstances that strip away all falsehood and leave us with our real selves. God's ultimate intent is not to leave us faithless, but to leave us faith-full. There are few things as exhilarating as going through the fire and finding that you had the resilience to make it through. All of us wonder at times whether we have what it takes. God wants to bring us to a place where we have no doubt of the work He has done within us.

  Erwin McManus

  Real, Fire, Self

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2006). “Uprising: A Revolution of the Soul”, p.210, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Are you willing to take the Big Leap to your ultimate level of success in love, money, and creative contribution?

  Gay Hendricks

  Creative, Levels, Bigs

  Gay Hendricks, PhD (2009). “The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• We [should not] make the mistake of thinking that marriage will provide the ultimate satisfaction for which we all hunger. To assume so would be to be guilty of blasphemy. Only God satisfies the hungry heart. Marriage is but one of the channels He uses to enable us to taste how deeply satisfying His thirst-quenching grace can be.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Marriage, God, Christian

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• Your ultimate goal in life is to become your best self.  Your immediate goal is to get on the path that will lead you there.

  David Viscott

  Self, Goal, Path

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• Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.

  Tommy Chong

  Hitting, Comedy, Jazz

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

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• My number one rule is to keep that camera rolling. Even if it's shaky or slightly out of focus, I don't give a rip. Even if a big old alligator is chewing me up I want to go down and go, 'Crikey!' just before I die. That would be the ultimate for me.

  Steve Irwin

  Rip, Numbers, Giving

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• To be inspired is the ultimate antidote to existential despair.

  Jason Silva

  Despair, Inspired, Existential

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• Death is not necessarily what gives meaning to life LIFE gives meaning to life, and what we do with life, which is to create knowledge like music, art, science To this end, I believe intelligent life might be evolution's secret weapon: the ultimate hack that might help us transcend entropy.

  Jason Silva

  Art, Believe, Intelligent

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• Science is incapable of supplying answers to ultimate questions about why things exist and what their purpose is.

  Nicola Cabibbo

  Purpose, Answers, Ultimate Questions

  Interview with Professor Nicola Cabibbo by John L. Allen, Jr., www.natcath.org. July 18, 2005.

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• The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as well as choices unexpectedly forced on them by things beyond their control.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Queens, Heart, Character

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• And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one.

  Eyvind Johnson

  Believe, Justice For All, Goal

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• Slavery is the ultimate and greatest evil. For it is based on a denial of the dignity of the human soul.

  Arthur Bryant

  Evil, Soul, Denial

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• Let us have a Universal Mind that loves and protects all creation and helps all things grow and develop. To unify mind and body and become one with the Universe is the ultimate purpose of our study.

  Koichi Tohei

  Mind, Purpose, Body

  "Ki Sayings". Book by Koichi Tohei, Chapter 1: "Our Motto", ki-moscow.narod.ru. 2003.

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• Judo should be free as art and science from any external influences, political, national, racial, and financial or any other organized interest. And all things connected with it should be directed to its ultimate object, the benefit of Humanity.

  Kano Jigoro

  Art, Political, Humanity

  Budokwai Bulletin, April 1947.

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• The climbing of earths heights, in itself, means little. That men and women want and try to climb them means everything. For it is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that we are never so much human as when we are striving for what is beyond our grasp, and that there is no battle worth the winning save that against our own ignorance and fear.

  James Ramsey Ullman

  Ignorance, Mean, Men

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• Detachment is the ultimate pleasure.

  Saraha

  Detachment, Pleasure

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• Words taken literally or held as ultimate truth can keep us stagnant and stuck, holding on to old ideologies. I now know that everything I need is already contained within me and is completely aceessible if I allow myself to open up to what I sense is true for me...and the same is true for you.

  Anita Moorjani

  Taken, Needs, Holding On

  FaceBook post by Anita Moorjani from May 30, 2013

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• If in God's loving plan you have to bow before what appears to be a frowning providence, you can be sure that He's got your ultimate happiness at heart. He's working to free you from your worries, not by giving freedom from trouble, but by arranging circumstances so that as you go through them you'll experience the truth that He is everything He says He is

  Elyse Fitzpatrick

  Heart, Giving, Worry

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• If any value is deeply evolutionarily familiar, it is reproductive success. If any value is truly unnatural, if there is one thing that humans (and all other species in nature) are decisively not designed for, it is voluntary childlessness. All living organisms in nature, including humans, are evolutionarily designed to reproduce. Reproductive success is the ultimate end of all biological existence.

  Satoshi Kanazawa

  Ends, Existence, Familiar

  "The Intelligence Paradox". Book by Satoshi Kanazawa, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2012.

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• I'll know when I find the ultimate sound.

  Sonny Rollins

  Sound, Knows

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• Forgiveness is the ultimate preventive medicine, as well as the greatest healer.

  Marianne Williamson

  Medicine, Wells, Healer

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