Aspiration Quotes - Page 33

• Fun is only real and sustainable if it feeds off the team's purpose and performance aspirations.

  John Katzenbach

  Teamwork, Fun, Educational

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• The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears. It reaches the height of its cherished aspirations. It falls to the level of its unchastened desires - and circumstances are the means by which the soul receives its own.

  James Allen

  Attitude, Fear, Fall

  James Allen (1923). “As a Man Thinketh”, p.9, New Line Publishing

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• The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture.

  Jeff Smith

  Art, Design Process, Culture

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• The measure of a society is not only what it does but the quality of its aspirations.

  Wade Davis

  Quality, Doe

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• I have seen competent leaders who stood in front of a platoon and all they saw was a platoon. But great leaders stand in front of a platoon and see it as 44 individuals, each of whom has aspirations, each of who wants to live, each of whom wants to do good.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Leadership, Want, Saws

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• The wealthiest place on the planet is the graveyard, because in the graveyard we will find inventions that we were never ever exposed to, ideas, dreams that never became a reality, hopes and aspirations that were never acted upon.

  Les Brown

  Dream, Reality, Ideas

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• The American dream. Those three short, simple words encompass the hopes and aspirations of all the peoples on earth. The words are not only short and simple. They are also fragile.

  Ross Perot

  Dream, Simple, Three

  Ross Perot (1992). “United We Stand: How We Can Take Back Our Country”

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• It is the moral element contained in it that alone gives value and dignity to a religion, and only in so far as its teachings serve to stimulate and purify our moral aspirations does it deserve to retain its ascendency over mankind.

  Felix Adler

  Teaching, Giving, Elements

  "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.

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• Even in this secular country, the threat posed by religious fundamentalists is never very far away. Every major religious text exhorts the same principles - that of unyielding obedience to a supernatural being, and renunciation of the intellect and personal aspirations.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Country, Religious, Supernatural Beings

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• When I wrote Chuky script, I was a student at UCLA, an undergraduate and my biggest aspiration for it was that I would get my foot in a door somewhere, that I would get an agent or something and it was just beyond my wildest dreams that this big-time producer, David Kirschner.

  David Kirschner

  Dream, Doors, Ucla

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• For my entire career, I wanted to be a director. When I was in the theater, it was very difficult to get directing jobs, and I fell into the acting by default. I got in the habit of accepting whatever came my way. Not things that I disagreed with, though. It's not like I had aspirations - well, I did have aspirations to play Hamlet, which I ended up doing.

  James Cromwell

  Jobs, Play, Careers

  "The Construction of James Cromwell". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 12, 2013.

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• There are self-made millionaires - their aspiration is first to make money. But the once that goal is achieved, they have to look for something and sometimes they become patrons of art or museums. And that is how the world should go.

  Tadao Ando

  Art, Museums, Self

  "Interview: Architect Tadao Ando on the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth". Interview with Peter Simek, www.dmagazine.com. October 23, 2012.

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• Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.

  Tom Peters

  Excellence, Next, Minutes

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• The power of the leader is given to him by the people, so he has a duty to engage and listen more attentively and carefully to the aspirations of the people.

  Ban Ki-moon

  People, Leader, Given

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I have been urging the leaders to listen to the aspirations and challenges of their own people, and engage in dialogue and take very bold measures. Normally, to their regret, these measures and bold reforms come too late, too little.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Regret, People, Leader

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• It is only natural that people's wishes and aspirations should be realized by the leaders of the region. As this wind of change blows, it is up to the leaders to seize this opportunity to look for the better future for their own people through bold reforms before it is too late, before the people are forced to take action.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Blow, Opportunity, Wind

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The most aggressive views governing this country speak a lot about inclusion. We still have some people in this country who don't really get that we all have the same agenda, aspirations, hopes, and fears. I want people to be free and to be able to express themselves, to find the best ways to say things so that people can digest them.

  Russell Simmons

  Country, Views, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The way to the organic, active peace of brotherhood leads through the hearts of peacemakers who will knit together, with patience and self-sacrifice, the shorn and tangled fibers of human aspirations, faith, and hopes, who will transcend the fears and dangers of an adventure of trust. The road to unity is the road of repentance.

  H. Richard Niebuhr

  Heart, Adventure, Sacrifice

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• Has nature connected itself together by no bond, allowed itself to be thus crippled, and split into the divine and human elements? Well! there are certain divine powers of a middle nature, through whom our aspirations are conveyed to the gods, and theirs to us. A celestial ladder, a ladder from heaven to earth.

  Walter Pater

  Heaven, Together, Elements

  Walter Pater (2006). “Marius the Epicurean: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.81, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I knew I wanted to be successful in some form or fashion. My first dreams and aspirations of being successful was probably that I wanted to be a successful drug dealer. I wanted to be Nino Brown. That was my first dream.

  Ja Rule

  Dream, Fashion, Successful

  "The Real World of Ja Rule". Interview with Zack Etheart, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 17, 2013.

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• I think the biggest thing that people fear when it comes to art becoming a business is those authentic, pure aspirations of art being compromised.

  Shepard Fairey

  Art, Thinking, People

  Interview with Iggy Pop, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2010.

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• Let's not build the policy around the abuse. That's not good policy. That's actually bad policy. Build the policy around the aspiration point. That's what we need to do when we're seeing abuse online.

  Kamala Harris

  Abuse, Needs, Online

  "The Lenny Interview: Kamala Harris, the Senate Hopeful, Going After Revenge Porn". Interview with Doreen St. Félix, www.elle.com. October 23, 2015.

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• We must move from ... the primacy of technology toward considerations of social justice and equity, from the dictates of organizational convenience toward the aspirations ofself realization and learning, from authoritarianism and dogmatism toward more participation, from uniformity and centralization toward diversity and pluralism, from the concept of work as hard and unavoidable, from life as nasty, brutish, and short toward work as purpose and self~fulfillment, a recognition of leisure as a valid activity in itself.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Moving, Technology, Justice

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• If you take the conflicts we are used to dealing with, race over the years in America, and you combine that with the desire or aspiration to political power or taking power from other people, which is what politics is all about, you end up with a lot more friction than you would normally see with just straight-ahead politics.

  Gwen Ifill

  Race, Years, America

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Despite my belief that somehow my work would get me where I wanted to be, there was still some kind of fathomless yearning. Yes, my career aspirations were always goading me. But partially, I think I tried to let those dreams replace or become the other yearning, to have that other form of value.

  Cris Mazza

  Dream, Thinking, Careers

  "'My discoveries weren't any more extensive or alarming than most people's. I just chose to look'". Interview with Antonia Crane, logger.believermag.com. November 5, 2013.

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