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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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• Humankind's constant effort to fix its shortcomings is what drives human history.

  Joel Garreau

  Effort, Evolution, Humans

  Joel Garreau (2005). “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human”, p.161, Broadway Books

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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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• 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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• I love directing; it felt right to me when I did 'Flying Lessons'. It's something I will do again. Really, you can always be working and developing. That's something that's kind of ever constant.

  Derek Magyar

  Flying, Lessons, Kind

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• Greater in battle
  than the man who would conquer
  a thousand-thousand men,
  is he who would conquer
  just one —
  himself.
  Better to conquer yourself
  than others.
  When you've trained yourself,
  living in constant self-control,
  neither a deva nor gandhabba,
  nor a Mara banded with Brahmas,
  could turn that triumph
  back into defeat.

  Gautama Buddha

  Men, Self, Battle

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• God knew we would make mistakes. Life is all about mistakes. It is constant change and growth. Our greatest challenges in life will one day be known to us as our greatest teachers.

  Betty Eadie

  Teacher, Mistake, Challenges

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• Our worlds needs more time to wonder and reflect but there is too much fast paced constant distraction.

  Fred Rogers

  Inspirational, Life, Our World

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• To part is the lot of all mankind. The world is a scene of constant leave-taking, and the hands that grasp in cordial greeting today, are doomed ere long to unite for the last time, when the quivering lips pronounce the word - Farewell

  R. M. Ballantyne

  Goodbye, Farewell, Hands

  R. M. Ballantyne (2016). “The Coral Island: Illustrated”, p.239, Jester House Publishing

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• When I ran for Presidency of the United States, I knew that this country faced serious challenges, but I could not realize - nor could any man realize who does not bear the burdens of this office - how heavy and constant would be those burdens

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Men, Office

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.539, Best Books on

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• The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Stupid, Practice, Religion

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• So there was a constant flow and a thin line there between reality and television and yes, much of what I was experiencing in my real life was also what was going on in the television show to the extent that I had to take writers advice and from the counselors around.

  Alan Thicke

  Real, Advice, Television

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• The finest singing, given a good voice to begin with, comes from the constant play of a fine mind upon the inner meaning of the music.

  Ernest Newman

  Play, Voice, Mind

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• 'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant dropping wears away stones . . . and little strokes fell great oaks, as Poor Richard says. . . .

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Done, Stones

  Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• Not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes; tolerance and opportunity, human dignity and justice.

  Barack Obama

  Opportunity, Justice, Pro Life

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.

  Eugene Field

  Kings, Fear, Play

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• To be free one needs constant and unrelenting vigilance over one's weaknesses. A vigilance which requires a moral energy most of us are incapable of manufacturing. We relax back into the moulds of habit. They are secure, they bind us and keep us contained at the expense of freedom. To break the moulds, to be heedless of the seductions of security is an impossible struggle, but one of the few that count. To be free is to learn, to test yourself constantly, to gamble.

  Robyn Davidson

  Inspirational, Freedom, Struggle

  Robyn Davidson (2012). “Tracks”, p.220, A&C Black

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• Tension means hurry, fear, doubt. Tension means a constant effort to protect, to be secure, to be safe. Tension means preparing for the tomorrow now, or for the afterlife - afraid tomorrow you will not be able to face the reality, so be prepared. Tension means the past that you have not lived really but only somehow bypassed; it hangs, it is a hangover, it surrounds you.

  Rajneesh

  Hangover, Mean, Past

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• I could never live without artwork. It's a constant inspiration.

  Narciso Rodriguez

  Inspiration, Artwork, Decor

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• How could politics be a science, if laws and forms of government had not a uniform influence upon society? Where would be the foundation of morals, if particular characters had no certain or determinate power to produce particular sentiments, and if these sentiments had no constant operation on actions?

  David Hume

  Character, Law, Government

  David Hume (1875). “Essays Moral, Political, and Literary”, p.73

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• Regarding Ronald Reagan: In point of fact, the image of Ronald Reagan, the man responsible for shaping that decade (the 1980s), should be carved into Mount Rushmore, minted into coins, and emblazoned in a place of honor in every school child's history text as a constant reminder of this great man's contributions to world freedom, national pride, and individual prosperity. With the truth, the term 'Reaganomics' will be used only as a term of endearment and respect.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Children, School, Pride

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• On the left-hand side of the field equation we may add the fundamental tensor guv, multiplied by a universal constant, -λ, at present unknown, without destroying the general covariance.

  Albert Einstein

  Hands, Left Hand, Add

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• Only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea on the memory of the crowd.

  Adolf Hitler

  Memories, Ideas, Crowds

  Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)”, p.197, eKitap Projesi

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