Everyday Quotes - Page 23

• Everyday there are people in our world that do absolutely amazing things. People of all ages are very capable of doing tremendous, courageous things in spite of their fear.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Our World, People, Age

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• I don't miss being a reporter as a job, but I do miss the everyday interaction with the front line of law enforcement. I still have a cadre of cops who keep me up to date, but I don't have the access I used to.

  Michael Connelly

  Jobs, Law, Missing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real.

  Grant Morrison

  Running, Children, Real

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• Most Kabbalists were theorists who were interested only in pure meditation. But there were so-called 'practical Kabbalists' who tried to apply the power of the Kabbalah in everyday life.

  Neal Stephenson

  Meditation, Kabbalah, Practicals

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “Snow Crash”, p.274, Spectra

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• I don't just do music for the clubs, I do music for the struggle. I do music for everyday niggas, the kids who ain't got no sense of direction. I'm trying to restore some of the morals back into the game, as far as the street.

  Young Jeezy

  Struggle, Kids, Games

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• Performance wasnt something that I intended to do. I was doing work that was about process, about the meaning of the making, trying to have a love-hate relationship with the object. I always feel safer if I can bring the viewer back to the making of it. I try to do that in a lot of different ways, by residue, by touch, by these processes that are basic to all of our lives...that people might relate to in terms of process, everyday activities- bathing, eating, etc.

  Janine Antoni

  Art, Hate, People

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• As I've often said, Wisconsin's greatest strength continues to be the dedicated, hardworking people of our state. They go to work everyday, pay their taxes, and raise their kids with good, Midwestern values.

  Jim Doyle

  Kids, People, Pay

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• Before, Europe was about treaties, laws and our sovereign right to govern ourselves. Now, it's about everyday lives.

  Nigel Farage

  Europe, Law, Sovereign

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• The greatest thing is a life of obedience in the routine things of everyday life. No amount of fine feeling can take the place of faithful doing.

  William Barclay

  Life, Faith, Feelings

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• Come into the mountains, dear friend Leave society and take no one with you But your true self Get close to nature Your everyday games will be insignificant Notice the clouds spontaneously forming patterns And try to do that with your life.

  Susan Polis Schutz

  Life, Nature, Clouds

  Susan Polis Schutz (1972). “Come Into the Mountains, Dear Friend”, Blue Mountain Press

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• Music has its own internal logic. It is like the logic of a dream, clear in its own terms but not necessarily in everyday terms. Sometimes it expresses something you can describe in words, but not always.

  Tamas Vasary

  Dream, Musical, Logic

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• Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership.

  James MacGregor Burns

  Self, People, Leader

  James MacGregor Burns (1978). “Leadership”, Harpercollins

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• But to change all existence into a flow experience, it is not sufficient to learn merely how to control moment-by-moment states of consciousness. It is also necessary to have an overall context of goals for the events of everyday life to make senseTo create harmony in whatever one does is the last task that the flow theory presents to whose who wish to attain optimal experience; it is a task that involves transforming the entirety of life into a single flow activity, with unified goals that provide constant purpose.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Goal, Wish, Events

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• Jesus made everything so simple and we have made it so complicated. He spoke to the people in short sentences and everyday words, illustrating His messages with never-to-be forgotten stories.

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Simple, People

  Billy Graham (2011). “Angels: Ringing Assurance that We Are Not Alone”, p.161, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• For me, art, and especially music, exist to elevate us as far as possible above everyday existence.

  Gabriel Faure

  Art, Existence

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• The flag represents all the values and the liberties Americans have and enjoy everyday.

  Bill Shuster

  Liberty, Flags, Enjoy

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• The meaning resides in one's own experience, making the everyday the exceptional.

  Samuel Mockbee

  Inspiration, Architecture, Exceptional

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• We gauge risk literally hundreds of times per day, usually well and often subconsciously. We start assessing risk before the disaster even happens. We are doing is right now. We decide where to live and what kind of insurance to buy, just like we process all kinds of everyday risks: we wear bike helmets, or not. We buckle our seatbelts, smoke cigarettes, and let our kids stay out until midnight. Or not.

  Amanda Ripley

  Kids, Risk, Midnight

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• Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Beautiful, Order, Tea

  Andrew Forbes, David Henley, Okakura Kakuzo “The Illustrated Book of Tea”

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• We make thousands of decisions everyday in automatic mode without a mistake. Yet we don't reflect and celebrate this wonderful mode of human decision making at work rather, we put the blow torch on the one moment when it doesn't work and something goes wrong.

  Rob Long

  Mistake, Blow, Decision

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• If art is to flourish in the twenty-first century, it must renew its moral authority by rededicating itself to life. It must be an enriching, ennobling and vital partner in the public pursuit of civilization. It should be a majestic presence in everyday life just as it was in the past.

  Frederick Hart

  Art, Past, Civilization

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• I'd like to add that negotiating is not something to be avoided or feared - it's an everyday part of life.

  Leigh Steinberg

  Add, Parts Of Life, Avoided

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• Long term success is a direct result of what you achieve everyday. Goals provide your daily routine

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Nba, Long

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• Everyday we are going to fight lazy and soft. It's completely unacceptable. You have to be demanding

  George Karl

  Basketball, Fighting, Nba

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• Stillness and action are relative, not absolute, principles. It is important to find a balance of yin and yang, not just in qigong, but in everyday life. In movement, seek stillness and rest. In rest, be mindful and attentive.

  Ken Cohen

  Qigong, Balance, Important

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