Definite Quotes

• I'm not trying to give any definite answer. What I'm trying to prove is that we have enough gaps, enough discrepancies, enough simple falsifications to conclude that probably this history was an invention of a later time.

  Garry Kasparov

  Simple, Giving, Trying

  Interview With Timothy Taylor, timothytaylor.ca. 2001.

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• Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

  W. Clement Stone

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude". Book by W. Clement Stone and Napoleon Hill (Chapter 2: You Can Change Your World), 1960.

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• Once you define exactly what your purpose is you won’t even have to try to figure out how to make money. The ideas will flow freely as if someone was whispering in your ear. Everything will come together beautifully.

  Bob Proctor

  Money, Ideas, Trying

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• Some lives drift here and there like reeds in a stream, depending on changing currents for their activity. Others are like swimmers knowing the depth of the water. Each stroke helps them onward to a definite objective.

  Margaret Sanger

  Knowing, Water, Depth

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• In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors.

  Helmut Newton

  California, House, Backyards

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• The four natural principles for success are: A clear goal, a definite plan, confidence, no fear of failure.

  Robin Sieger

  Clear Goals, Principles, Four

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• I operate according to a definite, unerring law...I know the outcome before I start.

  Roger McDonald

  Law, Outcomes, Knows

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• Poetry is a second translation of the soul's feeling; it must be rendered into thought, and thought must change its nebulous robe of semi-wording into definite language, before it reaches another heart. Music is a first translation of feeling, needing no second, but entering the heart direct.

  Frances Ridley Havergal

  Heart, Feelings, Soul

  Frances Ridley Havergal (1892). “Golden Thoughts from the Life and Works of Frances Ridley Havergal ...”

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• But I don't care what Megan Fox or Jessica Biel say: There are definite advantages to being the hottest girl on the planet. Number one was that I got paid for it. A lot.

  Meg Cabot

  Girl, Numbers, Care

  Meg Cabot (2010). “Airhead Book 3: Runaway”, p.73, Scholastic Inc.

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• There are definite advantages to single beds." He sat up abruptly and arranged her legs around his waist. "Makes cuddling mandatory.

  Cindy Gerard

  Cuddling, Legs, Bed

  Cindy Gerard (2007). “To the Brink”, p.329, Macmillan

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• Somewhere, within her, in a deep recess, crouched discontent. She began to lose confidence in the fullness of her life, the glow began to fade from her conception of it. As the days multiplied, her need of something, something vaguely familiar, but which she could not put a name to and hold for definite examination, became almost intolerable. She went through moments of overwhelming anguish. She felt shut in, trapped.

  Nella Larsen

  Names, Needs, Examination

  Nella Larsen (2014). “Quicksand & Passing”, p.55, Serpent's Tail

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• I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once, and cannot add up the sum. I am incapable of determining ultimate worth or worthlessness; I have no judgment about myself and my life. There is nothing I am quite sure about. I have no definite convictions - not about anything, really. I know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have been carried along. I exist on the foundation or something I do not know.

  Carl Jung

  Foundation, Add, Judgment

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• How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology? In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Art, Views

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.181, Open Road Media

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• Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.

  Ezra Pound

  Vacuums, Doe, Use

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• And yet and yet - the last secret of the tree of codes is that nothing can ever reach a definite conclusion. Nowhere as much as there do we feel possibilities shaken by the nearness of realization. The atmosphere becomes possibilities and we shall wander and make a thousand mistakes. We shall wander along yet not be able to understand.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Mistake, Tree, Atmosphere

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• Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

  Carl Jung

  Evil, Darkness, Understanding

  Carl Gustav Jung (1958). “Psyche and symbol: a selection from the writings of C. G. Jung”, Anchor Books

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• The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone.

  Arthur Miller

  Crucible, Devil, Stones

  Arthur Miller (2015). “The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.315, Penguin

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• There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

  Rebecca West

  Women, Talking, People

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Thinking Reed”, p.91, Open Road Media

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• Love is like a wind stirring the grass beneath trees on a black night,' he had said. 'You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life. If you try to be definite and sure about it and to live beneath the trees, where soft night winds blow, the long hot day of disappointment comes swiftly and the gritty dust from passing wagons gathers upon lips inflamed and made tender by kisses.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Disappointment, Kissing, Night

  Sherwood Anderson (2015). “Winesburg, Ohio”, p.181, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• This wasn't the person he'd thought he was, or would have chosen to be if he'd been free to choose, but there was something comforting and liberating about being an actual definite someone, rather than a collection of contradictory potential someones.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Comforting, Contradictory, Chosen

  Jonathan Franzen (2010). “Freedom: A Novel”, p.432, Macmillan

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• the 10,000hr rule is a definite key in success

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Keys

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• He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.

  David Hilbert

  Science, Mind, Problem

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• Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.29, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• There's a definite responsibility that comes with being famous. You shouldn't be able to just dress up and look pretty.

  Rashida Jones

  Responsibility, Dresses, Looks

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• The Archangel." I murmured. looking back over my shoulder at the ride, which had started its next ascent. "It means high-ranking angel." There was a definite smugness to his voice. "The higher up, the harder the fall.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Fall, Angel, Mean

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2009). “Hush, Hush”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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