Undertakings Quotes - Page 7

• When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Women, Feminist, Doubt

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• One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.

  Dorothea Lange

  Photography, Cameras, Use

  Anne Whiston Spirn, Dorothea Lange (2009). “Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field”, University Of Chicago Press

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• One must shy away from questionable undertakings, even when they bear a high-sounding name.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Names, Ballet

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.443, Princeton University Press

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• [There is] a duty in refusing to cooperate in any undertaking that violates the Constitutional rights of the individual. This holds in particular for all inquisitions that are concerned with the private life and the political affiliations of the citizens.

  Albert Einstein

  War, Rights, Political

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• An undertaking of great magnitude and importance, the successful accomplishment of which, in so comparatively short a period, notwithstanding the unheard of unestimable difficulties and impediments which had to be encountered and surmounted, in an almost unexplored and uninhabited wilderness . . . evinced on your part a moral courage and an undaunted spirit and combination of science and management equally exciting our admiration and deserving our praise.

  John By

  Successful, Engineering, Accomplishment

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• We have seen too much defeatism, too much pessimism, too much of a negative approach. The answer is simple: if you want something very badly, you can achieve it. It may take patience, very hard work, a real struggle, and a long time; but it can be done. That much faith is a prerequisite of any undertaking.

  Margo Jones

  Real, Struggle, Hard Work

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• A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Pain, Mistake, Desire

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• Fear can be one of the most destructive emotions. It is, of course, also very important, in that fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgement of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings of our lives.

  Helen Mirren

  Stupid, Clouds, Evil

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• Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Government, Effort

  Marco Rubio's Conservative Political Action Conference speech, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 18, 2010.

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• Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization.

  Frederick Reines

  Leadership, Boys, Years

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• When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.

  Francois Rabelais

  Marriage, Judging

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• To fight for one's country, to offer one's very life to promote the well being of the United States, is truly a noble undertaking. But so is the vigilance of the citizen who carefully examines our leaders to see if political problems are being solved by wars simply because this seems to be the easiest solution.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Country, War, Fighting

  "An Interview With Walter Dean Myers About The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins". Interview with Richard F. Abrahamson and Linda M. Pavonetti, www.scholastic.com.

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• I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

  Golda Meir

  Inspirational, Leadership, Motivation

  "Way of Valor: A Biography of Golda Myerson". Book by Marie Syrkin, 1955.

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• No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Writing, Jigsaw Puzzles, Literature

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• The Hercules' was a monumental undertaking. It is the largest aircraft ever built... I put the sweat of my life into this thing.

  Howard Hughes

  Sweat, Aviator, Built

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• It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

  Eric Hoffer

  Failure, Expression, Land

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Softball

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.28, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still, because you are prepared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles.

  Giuseppe Garibaldi

  Fate, Men, Battle

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• It's a massive undertaking putting an album together... It's not light weight at all.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Light, Together, Weight

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• Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.

  Euripides

  Inspirational, Benefits, Joints

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1974). “The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides”

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• To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Sacrifice, Envy, Venture

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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• Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Ideas, Cash, Flow

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• Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

  Jessamyn West

  Friendship, Being Alone, Writing

  Jessamyn West (1973). “Hide and Seek: A Continuing Journey”, Harcourt

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• Looking back now across fifteen years I could see with great clarity the fear I had lived in, which must mean that in the interval I had succeeded in a very important undertaking: I must have made my escape from it.

  John Knowles

  Mean, Years, Important

  John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Life, Thinking, Generosity

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