Lifelong Quotes - Page 11

• Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship.

  Dada Vaswani

  Commitment, Permanent

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• I view the major features of my own odyssey as a set of mostly fortunate contingencies. I was not destined by inherited mentality or family tradition to become a paleontologist. I can locate no tradition for scientific or intellectual careers anywhere on either side of my eastern European Jewish background. I view my serious and lifelong commitment to baseball in entirely the same manner: purely as a contingent circumstance of numerous, albeit not entirely capricious, accidents.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Baseball, Commitment, Views

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• The abstracting of visual elements in order to recognize their particularity has become automatic, but seeing, combining, and creating them as integrated 'wholes' will remain a lifelong challenge.

  Freeman Patterson

  Order, Creating, Challenges

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• Education, or enrichment, is a dynamic, evolving, lifelong process. Every time you look, sensitively with awareness, your vision grows.

  John Paul Caponigro

  Vision, Looks, Awareness

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• It was during this [as a kid] time that I came out of my shell vocally and performance wise, I learned how to really and truly sing in a different way.... my way. It was an amazing experience because I also realized my lifelong dream - to sing my own songs...I have something to say and it was a great release for me to share that part of myself with others.

  Tessanne Chin

  Wise, Dream, Song

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• Ive never been the type of guy thats ever needed a lot of things or any fancy things, but my lifelong goal has always been to have a piece of land and a house.

  Tyler Farr

  Land, Fancy Things, Goal

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• I dont often meet people who want to suffer cardiovascular disease or whatever, and we get those things as a result of the lifelong accumulation of various types of molecular and cellular damage.

  Aubrey de Grey

  People, Suffering, Disease

  "Aubrey de Grey: We don't have to get sick as we get older". Interview with Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2010.

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• Plateau experiencing can be achieved, learned, earned by long hard work.... A transient glimpse is certainly possible in the peak experiences which may, after all, come sometimes to anyone. But, so to speak, to take up residence on the high plateau .... that is another matter altogether. That tends to be a lifelong effort.

  Abraham Maslow

  Hard Work, Long, Effort

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• All equity categories, correctly calculated, create near-identical lifelong returns. They just get there via wildly differing paths.

  Kenneth Fisher

  Path, Return, Categories

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• Largeness is a lifelong matter. You grow because you are not content not to. You are like a beaver that chews constantly because if it doesn't, it's teeth grow long and lock. You grow because you are a grower; you're large because you can't stand to be small.

  Wallace Stegner

  Long, Teeth, Locks

  Wallace Stegner (2002). “On Teaching and Writing Fiction”, p.37, Penguin

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• Lifelong readers continue to read, finding in books the means to enjoy life or endure it

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Book, Mean, Enjoy Life

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• . . . black women . . . are trained from childhood to become workers, and expect to be financially self-supporting for most of their lives. They know they will have to work, whether they are married or single; work to them, unlike to white women, is not a liberating goal, but rather an imposed lifelong necessity.

  Gerda Lerner

  Self, White, Goal

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• No one can take it away from you.

  B. B. King

  Education, Teacher, Knowledge

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• I can't make wine simple. But I can make it fun and beautiful, instead of esoteric and intimidating. The minute you realize it's OK to stumble along like the rest of us, asking questions and paying attention to your own reactions, then you'll begin what I hope will be a lifelong love affair with wine.

  Jennifer Rosen

  Beautiful, Fun, Wine

  Jennifer Rosen (2006). “The Cork Jester's Guide to Wine: An Entertaining Companion for Tasting It, Ordering It and Enjoying It”, p.15, Clerisy Press

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• A period is just the beginning of a lifelong sentence

  Cathy Crimmins

  Baby, Pregnancy, Periods

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• I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  People, Language, Claims

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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• The most important thing, of course, is that you should look more stunning than you have ever looked in your life. How many excuses do you have to wear a dress bigger than anyone else's, at a party just for you, where everyone has to burst into tears from how gorgeous you look while you prance around in front of them? Remember, your lifelong happiness depends on this one article of clothing. If it doesn't look good, you're not a bride. You're just some idiot in a big white thing - a color unflattering to about 93 percent of the population.

  Mimi Pond

  Party, Color, White

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• There was no singles problem until singles got so single-minded that they stopped wasting time with anyone ineligible. Before that, it was understood that one of society's main tasks was matchmaking. People with lifelong friendships and ties to local nonprofessional organizations did not have to fear that isolation would accompany retirement, old age, or losing a spouse. Overburdened householders could count on the assistance not only of their own extended families, but of the American tradition of neighborliness.

  Judith Martin

  Retirement, Organization, Ties

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• Education should be a lifelong process, the formal period serving as a foundation on which life's structure may rest and rise.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Teaching, Foundation, May

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• My brother is the lifelong musician, he made the choice to do that when we were very, very young kids. I remember him playing in bands and listening to the music he was writing in the house - he's nine years older than me.

  Kevin Bacon

  Brother, Writing, Kids

  "Bacon Brothers Q&A: Getting the Band Back Together". Interview with Zach Dionne, www.billboard.com. November 20, 2012.

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• When my kids wanted to give up on things, I wouldn't let them, and those are lifelong lessons.

  Amy Chua

  Giving Up, Kids, Lessons

  "Is strict parenting better for children?". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2011.

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• I have a lifelong devotion to public service.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Devotion, Public Service

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• I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong readers.

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Thinking, Differences

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• We run into some pretty tough arguments sometimes, but the idea is that at the end of the day, my wife and I realize that we'll always be holding each other's hand. This is a lifelong relationship, and after 12 years she hasn't gotten rid of me yet

  Kyle Chandler

  Running, Hands, Years

  Interview with Kate Coyne, www.goodhousekeeping.com. January 25, 2008.

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• These same experiences make of the sequence of life cycles a generational cycle, irrevocably binding each generation to those that gave it life and to those for whose life it is responsible. Thus, reconciling lifelong generativity and stagnation involves the elder in a review of his or her own years of active responsibility for nurturing the next generations, and also in an integration of earlier-life experiences of caring and of self-concern in relation to previous generations.

  Erik Erikson

  Responsibility, Caring, Years

  Erik H. Erikson, Joan M. Erikson, Helen Q. Kivnick (1994). “Vital Involvement in Old Age”, p.73, W. W. Norton & Company

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