Constant Quotes - Page 10

• He who has a pure heart will never cease to pray; and he who will be constant in prayer, shall know what it is to have a pure heart.

  Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

  Spiritual, Religious, Prayer

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• The tendencies are considerably weaker in the natural sciences, which, for the past several centuries, have survived and flourished through such constant challenge, and therefore, at best, seek to encourage it. Serving the status quo in political and socioeconomic realms is a different matter.

  Noam Chomsky

  Past, Political, Challenges

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• That support has been so constant and gracious and loving. Michelle and I have never felt as if, at any stage, folks didn't have our backs. And as a consequence, I think that just spurred us on that much more to make us want to do the right thing, and do our best in the positions that we have.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Support, Want

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• Globalization combined with technology, combined with social media and constant information, have disrupted people's lives sometimes in very concrete ways; a manufacturing plant closes and suddenly an entire town no longer has what was the primary source of employment.

  Barack Obama

  Technology, Media, People

  Source: time.com

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• Open office plans, cell phones, constant notifications: these are all things that fight against sustained attention on a task. For some people and some tasks, that doesn’t matter. But for a lot of important work, it matters a lot.

  Kevin Drum

  Fighting, Phones, Cells

  "In Which I Respond to My Critics About the Bernie Revolution" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2016.

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• [My father] had this quirky thing of not believing in gravity. And giving me a constant headache about that one. He would say if I showed any interest in gravity, I was becoming a dupe of the system. He could see indications I was beginning to believe in it.

  Paul Laffoley

  Father, Believe, Giving

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• It's just a constant thing when the mind starts to wake up to itself.

  Byron Katie

  Mind, Wake Up

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• With respect to Russia, my principal approach to Russia has been constant since I first came into office. Russia is an important country. It is a military superpower. It has influence in the region and it has influence around the world.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Military, Russia

  Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel of Germany in a Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 17, 2016.

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• Democracy is about constant vigilance. It's not straightforward, there will always be setbacks and you get particular be it religious fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalism - a partly conservative approach and actually trying to put women in a more traditional role. And we have to resist that.

  Mary Robinson

  Christian, Religious, Trying

  Source: www.dailymaverick.co.za

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• You cannot be a party in stagnation. You have to have the constant reinvigoration of fresher ideas and the debate in terms of role of government and the rest is as ancient as - as old as America.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Party, Government, Ideas

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Life is going to be a constant peeling back of layers, a constant unlearning of what we've been taught or believe to be true. I think that I've come to terms with the fact that that's just going to happen for the whole duration of my life. I feel really good about being able to look myself in the face and say, "Oh, who are you now?" And that might change.

  Alicia Keys

  Believe, Thinking, Duration

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I think [song 'Can't Stop Workin'] it's the constant work; performing and traveling. It gets to be a bit of a strain. But if you pace yourself, which I've managed to do, you can go pretty well.

  Neil Young

  Song, Thinking, Pace

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• We have a natural constant craving for leadership. Democracy is always a fragile and imperfect achievement. Yet a distinct feeling of malaise in our political culture lingers. There is something missing from our public debates.

  Tim Soutphommasane

  Leadership, Achievement, Political

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• There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a philosophy of immortality as duplication. It dominates the relation with the self, with the past, not infrequently with the present, always with History and, even, with the European tradition.

  Umberto Eco

  Philosophy, Past, Self

  Umberto Eco (1986). “Faith in Fakes: Essays”, Harvill Secker

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• Complete and accurate surveillance as a means of control is probably a practical impossibility. What is much more likely is a loss of privacy and constant inconvenience as the wrong people gain access to information, as one wastes time convincing the inquisitors that one is in fact innocent, or as one struggles to untangle the errors of the errant machine.

  Victor C. Ferkiss

  Struggle, Mean, Loss

  Victor C. Ferkiss (1969). “Technological Man: The Myth and the Reality”

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• Since I've been in this industry, it's been a constant fight; "Oh, he's white, he's Cuban." "He's tryin' to do hip-hop and he's too Spanish, he's too English."You fight all these stereotypes through all these boundaries, and you find a way to tap-dance through all these different genres and cultures through music - that's what Rebelution is.

  Pitbull

  Fighting, White, Hip Hop

  Source: djbooth.net

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• And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and constant and all-absorbing aim, to exceed, if possible, not only us but all your ancestors in virtue; and know that to excel you in virtue only brings us shame, but that to be excelled by you is a source of happiness to us.

  Plato

  Plato, Justice, Lasts

  Plato (2015). “The Complete Plato”, p.166, Booklassic

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• This constant, unproductive preoccupation with all the things we have to do is the single largest consumer of time and energy.

  Kerry Gleeson

  Energy, Time Management, Preoccupation

  Kerry Gleeson (2003). “The Personal Efficiency Program: How to Get Organized to Do More Work in Less Time”, p.127, John Wiley & Sons

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• Willpower can produce short-term change, but it creates constant internal stress because you haven't dealt with the root cause.

  Rick Warren

  Stress, Roots, Overcoming Adversity

  Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.164, Zondervan

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• The human heart cries out for help; the human soul implores us for deliverance; but we do not heed their cries, for we neither hear nor understand. But the man who hears and understands we call mad, and flee from him. Thus the nights pass, and we live in unawareness; and the days greet us and embrace us. But we live in constant dread of day and night.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Night, Men

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• From now on, change will be the constant. The individuals best prepared to succeed are those who can learn, modify, and grow, regardless of age, experience, or ego.

  Danny Goodman

  Change, Ego, Age

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• I trust the mystery. I trust what comes in silence and what comes in nature where there's no diversion. I think the lack of stimulation allows us to hear and experience a deeper river that's constant, still, vibrant, and real. And the process of deep listening with attention and intention catalyzes and mobilizes exactly what's needed at that time.

  Angeles Arrien

  Real, Thinking, Rivers

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• Do good deeds properly, sincerely and moderately and know that your deeds will not make you enter Paradise, and that the most beloved deed to Allah's is the most regular and constant even though it were little.

  Muhammad

  Positive, God, Islamic

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• Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.

  D. Wayne Calloway

  Sports, Business, Sight

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• Characterization requires a constant back-and-forth between the exterior events of the story and the inner life of the character.

  David Corbett

  Character, Events, Stories

  David Corbett (2013). “The Art of Character: Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film, and TV”, p.41, Penguin

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