Endeavor Quotes - Page 5

• I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.

  Elie Wiesel

  Believe, Serious, Mysticism

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• Our vision is to create an exceptional lifestyle offering worthy of Tamarack's incredible surroundings. All of our partners involved in this development are committed to delivering the highest level of quality and luxury possible. We are excited to have Fairmont join us in this endeavor.

  Andre Agassi

  Offering, Luxury, Vision

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• Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Inspirational, Humor, Government

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• The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.

  Alan Greenspan

  Happiness, Careers, Leaving

  "Remarks by Chairman Alan Greenspan". Alan Greenspan's commencement address at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, www.federalreserve.gov. June 10, 1999.

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• Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Business, Goal, Advertising

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• I often think that the reason capitalism hasn't completely destroyed everything is that a huge amount of anti-capitalist endeavor goes on, from labors of love, nurture, friendship, and barter to gift economies and different kinds of exchanges, not just one alternate model but a whole host of other ways in which we engage with each other and with the world that aren't financial and debt-based.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Thinking, Debt, Goes On

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The most important thing for workers to understand is that you have to make yourself indispensable. You must make money for your employer or make his life easier, preferably both. Also, you have to learn as much as you can about your chosen endeavor.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Important, Making Money, Easier

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• I don't teach literature from my perspective as 'Joyce Carol Oates.' I try to teach fiction from the perspective of each writer. If I'm teaching a story by Hemingway, my endeavor is to present the story that Hemingway wrote in its fullest realization.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Teaching, Perspective, Trying

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• My science teachers always encouraged their classes to 'go out and discover something' because all scientific endeavors depend on observation and experimentation. Through such pursuits, anyone can find something new to science, and if it's truly novel, the entire edifice of science might have to be restructured.

  Greg Graffin

  Teacher, Class, Might

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• The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Self, Care, Narrative

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• Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.

  William S. Burroughs

  Goal, Suffering, Facts

  William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg (1982). “Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957”, Full Court Pr

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• Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmie that he can? Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Race, Mind

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden”, p.343, Collector's Library

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• We are bound first to imform ourselves concerning so great a matter as the revolt of millions of people- what they are struggling for, what they are struggling against, and how the struggle stands- from day to day...as best you can; and second, to spread this knowledge among others, and endeavor to do what little you can to awaken the consciousness and sympathy of others.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Struggle, People, Littles

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• Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives. The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility—these three forces are the very nerve of education.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Responsibility, Imagination, Feelings

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• Love is about bottomless empathy, born out of the heart’s revelation that another person is every bit as real as you are. And this is why love, as I understand it, is always specific. Trying to love all of humanity may be a worthy endeavor, but, in a funny way, it keeps the focus on the self, on the self’s own moral or spiritual well-being. Whereas, to love a specific person, and to identify with his or her struggles and joys as if they were your own, you have to surrender some of your self.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Spiritual, Real, Struggle

  Jonathan Franzen (2012). “Farther Away: Essays”, p.9, Macmillan

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• Listen to me: everything you think you know, every relationship you've ever taken for granted, every plan or possibility you've ever hatched, every conceit or endeavor you've ever concocted, can be stripped from you in an instant. Sooner or later, it will happen. So prepare yourself. Be ready not to be ready. Be ready to be brought to your knees and beaten to dust. Because no stable foundation, no act of will, no force of cautious habit will save you from this fact: nothing is indestructible.

  Jonathan Evison

  Taken, Thinking, Dust

  Jonathan Evison (2013). “The Fundamentals of Caring”, p.221, Head of Zeus

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• It must be remembered that in those great days I was considered to be an "integrationist" - this was never, quite, my own idea of myself - and Malcolm was considered to be a "racist in reverse." This formulation, in terms of power - and power is the arena in which racism is acted out - means absolutely nothing: it may even be described as a cowardly formulation. The powerless, by definition, can never be "racists," for they can never make the world pay for what they feel or fear except by the suicidal endeavor which makes them fanatics or revolutionaries, or both.

  James A. Baldwin

  Suicidal, Mean, Ideas

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• Everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates... This effort to make everyone approve what we love or hate is in truth ambition, and so we see that each person by nature desires that other persons should live according to his way of thinking.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Hate, Ambition, Thinking

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• That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness, and courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations. Shall not the heart which has received so much, trust the Power by which it lives? May it not quit other leadings, and listen to the Soul that has guided it so gently, and taught it so much, secure that the future will be worthy of the past?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Past, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, p.7, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

  Albert Ellis

  Real, Self, Order

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• He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of love, fights with pleasure and confidence; he resists equally one or many men, and scarcely needs at all the help of fortune. Those whom he conquers yield joyfully

  Baruch Spinoza

  Revenge, Mean, Fighting

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• Endeavors that help me satisfy you, my goddess of desire, pleasure, and corny one-liners.

  Sylvia Day

  Desire, Helping, One Liner

  Sylvia Day (2013). “Entwined with You”, p.64, Penguin

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• Caring about the welfare of children and shaming parents are mutually exclusive endeavors.

  Brené Brown

  Children, Caring, Parent

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• Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. This is what makes it so disturbing to look back upon the time which we have lost. Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Time, Creative, Suffering

  Life Magazine (p. 47), April 22, 1957; later quoted in Dietrich Bonhoeffer "Letters and Papers from Prison" (p. 47), 1967.

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• Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Time, Creative, Suffering

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