Breakthrough Quotes - Page 12

• I am a competitive person with myself. I always find new goals to achieve, new challenges to breakthrough, and I try and do something new every day. And I'm highly competitive with myself.

  Hilary Swank

  Goal, Challenges, Trying

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Everything has to be understood in opposition to something else. For some dang reason, the ego prefers to make one side better than the other, so we choose. And we decide males are better than females, America is better than Canada, Democrats are better than Republicans. And for most people, once this decision is made, it is amazing the amount of blindness they become capable of. They really don't see what's right in front of them. Once you see this, it's an amazing breakthrough, and that is the starting place for moving away from dualistic thinking.

  Richard Rohr

  Moving, Thinking, America

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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• Our media, which is like a planetary nervous system, are far more sensitive to breakdowns than to breakthroughs. They filter out our creativity and successes, considering them less newsworthy than violence, war, and dissent. When we read newspapers and watch television news, we feel closer to a death in the social body than to an awakening.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  War, Creativity, Media

  Barbara Marx Hubbard (2015). “Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential”, p.18, New World Library

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• This is what happens with a breakthrough.  The first ones through the door often get bruised if not broken.  Eventually, with a little political acumen and racial sensitivity and a lot of hard work, a smooth new place can emerge.

  Gwen Ifill

  Hard Work, Doors, Broken

  Gwen Ifill (2009). “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama”, p.17, Anchor

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• I've got a mission to help people improve and massively change their lives and create breakthroughs, so I'm always looking for them and I'm the first guinea pig.

  Tony Robbins

  Pigs, People, Firsts

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• There are just moments when all the stars are aligned for breakthrough products.

  John Sculley

  Stars, Moments, Products

  "Ex-CEO John Sculley On Apple’s Innovation ‘Lull’". Interview with Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 17, 2013.

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• I am impressed with the innovation in the wireless marketplace. The Blackberry, the iPhone, the Pre, and other smart devices are breakthrough technologies that have helped revolutionize the wireless space.

  Julius Genachowski

  Smart, Technology, Iphone

  "Conversation: Julius Genachowski on Net Neutrality". Interview with Thessaly La Force, www.newyorker.com. September 23, 2009.

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• I took a long view in order to not destroy the core Galvin-defined principles imbued in Motorola, such as constant respect for people, its instincts for breakthrough innovation, and continuous renewal in thinking and process rigor.

  Christopher Galvin

  Thinking, Views, Order

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• When I experience something or feel something, that's kind of transferred to the audience. There's a lot of great breakthrough moments that come out of that.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Kind, Moments, Feels

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America's system of higher education must remain the world's leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers.

  Alan Greenspan

  Teaching, Economic Value, America

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• Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment.

  R. D. Laing

  Enlightenment, Psychological, Breakdown

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• There is not ultimate breakthrough; what we find in the development of a creative life is an open-ended series of provisional breakthroughs. In this journey there is no endpoint, because it is the journey into the soul.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Journey, Creative, Soul

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.11, Penguin

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• Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic.

  Terence McKenna

  Creating, Ego, Psychedelic

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• We have a strong military deployment in Iraq and Afghanistan. In countries like Syria, we need a diplomatic breakthrough to end the war. In Libya, the country must first of all be stabilized to stop IS. This means supporting the Libyan government, including in terms of security. We don't want to repeat the mistakes of the past in that country. The situation is extremely dangerous and the next days could be decisive.

  Paolo Gentiloni

  Country, Strong, Mistake

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• For anyone that's ever had a musical breakthrough in their career, it's always followed by the departure period right after.

  Questlove

  Careers, Musical, Departure

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think as far as straight actors playing gay roles, "Brokeback Mountain" was a big breakthrough. I'm pretty sure when they were casting that movie that - I think the story is, like you know, 10 to 15 other actors turned it down.

  James Franco

  Gay, Thinking, Brokeback Mountain

  "James Franco: The Method Of 'Milk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 27, 2009.

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• Hemingway is a baby when he turns up in Paris, but he's an ambitious baby. And he has the talent. And he's there to stage his breakthrough. So many of the expats who were there at that time were there to do precisely that. It was an ambition-fueled town.

  Lesley M. M. Blume

  Baby, Ambition, Paris

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I have spent forty-five years teasing out the universal principles of success that are necessary to create massive breakthroughs. I am committed to teaching and disseminating those around the world. I also believe that most transformational leaders are focusing too much on outer techniques and overlooking the important inner qualities of beingness and presence that are required to create real and lasting transformation in the world.

  Jack Canfield

  Real, Teaching, Believe

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• Look at South Africa, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East. They still have many problems, setbacks as well as breakthroughs, but basically changes have happened that were considered unthinkable a decade ago.

  Dalai Lama

  Unions, Middle East, Looks

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I had my breakthrough at 6 years old and received the Lord, Jesus Christ. I was so swept up in the spirit, I told my parents I had future plans to enter the priesthood.

  Jonathan Cain

  Jesus, Years, Parent

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• When I was 18, I went to a Baptist church with my girlfriend, and had a breakthrough when a pastor laid hands on me on an altar call. I wept that evening and realized how numb I had become with God and how He was calling to me for restoration. I received that blessing and went on to raising my three children in a Lutheran Church in the Bay Area as a member of Journey.

  Jonathan Cain

  Girlfriend, Children, Blessing

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Skepticism about the potential to achieve the kinds of breakthroughs we need has been a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  Ted Nordhaus

  Self, Needs, Kind

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• That's the best part of the game, to see the smiles on their faces and the breakthroughs they have as individuals.

  Russell Westbrook

  Games, Faces, Individual

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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• We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments. When you're headed for a breakthrough moment, it's kind of scary because you say, 'If I break through then I have to make great change in my life.'

  Dane Cook

  Break Through, Scary, Kind

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• The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.

  Peter Singer

  World, Internet, Steam Engines

  "The unknown promise of internet freedom". www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2010.

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