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

  Roger McDonald

  Law, Outcomes, Knows

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• If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out.

  Jean Kerr

  Funny Inspirational, Food, Loss

  Jean Kerr (1959). “Please Don't Eat the Daisies”

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• God forgives not capriciously, but with wise, definite, Divine pre arrangement; forgives universally, on the grounds of atonement and on the condition of repentance and faith.

  Richard Salter Storrs

  Forgiveness, Wise, Forgiving

  Richard Salter Storrs (1875). “Conditions of Success in Preaching Without Notes: Three Lectures Delivered Before the Students of the Union Theological Seminary, New York, Januray 13, 20, 27: 1875; with an Appendix”, p.114

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• There is no hope of success for the person who does not have a central purpose, or definite goal at which to aim.

  Napoleon Hill

  Hope, Goal, Doe

  Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles (2012). “Get Rich Collection”, p.92, Penguin

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• There is a definite link between gratitude and spirituality.

  Elaine L. Jack

  Gratitude, Links, Spirituality

  Elaine L. Jack (1992). “Eye to Eye, Heart to Heart”, Shadow Mountain

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• What really matters for success, character, happiness and life long achievements is a definite set of emotional skills - your EQ - not just purely cognitive abilities that are measured by conventional IQ tests.

  Daniel Goleman

  Leadership, Character, Emotional

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• Coitus is random, children are definite.

  Thomas Keneally

  Children

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• The trouble with integers is that we have examined only the very small ones. Maybe all the exciting stuff happens at really big numbers, ones we can't even begin to think about in any very definite way. Our brains have evolved to get us out of the rain, find where the berries are, and keep us from getting killed. Our brains did not evolve to help us grasp really large numbers or to look at things in a hundred thousand dimensions.

  Ronald Graham

  Rain, Math, Thinking

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• All definite knowledge - so I should contend - belongs to science; all dogma as to what surpasses definite knowledge belongs to theology. But between theology and science there is a No Man's Land, exposed to attack by both sides; this No Man's Land is philosophy.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Knowledge, Men

  Bertrand Russell (2008). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• It was then that my religious consciousness emerged to flower years afterward into definite forms of religious dancing in which there is no sense of division between spirit and flesh, religion and art.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Dance, Religious, Art

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• My monochrome pictures are not my definite works, but the preparation for my works. They are the leftovers from the creative processes, the ashes. My pictures, after all, are only the title-deeds to my property which I have to produce when I am asked to prove that I am a proprietor.

  Yves Klein

  Creative, Preparation, Titles

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• From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played a definite recognizable role in the tragedy of the French revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th Century. And now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their head and have become the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.

  Winston Churchill

  America, Hair, Order

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• A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.

  Brian Tracy

  Confidence, Giving, Focus

  Brian Tracy (1998). “The Gift of Self-Confidence”, p.19, Jaico Publishing House

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• Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining. It is an applied science, a systematized collection of laws applied to bring about a definite end. It takes up the laws of psychology, applicable to the unfolding of the whole consciousness of man on every plane, in every world, and applies those rationally in a particular case. This rational application of the laws of unfolding consciousness acts exactly on the same principles that you see applied around you every day in other departments of science.

  Annie Besant

  Success, Yoga, Men

  Annie Besant (2017). “The Nature and Practice of Yoga”, BookRix

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• I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety. I am ready to try this for the next ten thousand years, and exhaust it. How sweet to think of! my extremities well charred, and my intellectual part too, so that there is no danger of worm or rot for a long while. My breath is sweet to me. O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Thanksgiving, Running, Sweet

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.373, Penguin

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• But human deciding what to eat without professional guidance - something they have been doing with notable success since coming down out of the trees - is seriously unprofitable if you're a food company, a definite career loser if you're nutritionist, and just plain boring if you're a newspaper editor or reporter.

  Michael Pollan

  Editors, Careers, Tree

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.17, Penguin

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• Eric was incensed, to use a good entry from my word of the day Calender. In fact his eyes were almost throwing sparks he was so angry. "This woman has been mine, and she will be mine" he said in tones so definite I thought about checking my rear end for a brand.

  Charlaine Harris

  Eye, Eric, Use

  Charlaine Harris (2006). “Definitely Dead: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.69, Penguin

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• We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone.

  Pablo Picasso

  Running, Gone, Sand

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