Lifelong Quotes - Page 13

• How could I have been the valedictorian, the smartest, and never known Harlem existed? As a result, I began a lifelong learning experience, because I could not accept what the party line was with education - that these people want to live like this, these people don't have ambition, they don't want to work. You know, all the usual bullshit.

  Lynne Stewart

  Party, Ambition, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be "lifelong"? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?

  Cesare Pavese

  Love, Pain, Men

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.74, Transaction Publishers

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• The captain, thinking over this event afterward, realized that by his own lifelong standards he had a crew composed entirely of lunatics, with himself well to the front in degree of aberration; but he was fairly sure that this particular form of insanity was going to be useful.

  Hal Clement

  Thinking, Insanity, Aberration

  "Mission of Gravity" by Hal Clement, (Ch. 9), 1954.

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• I have been a lifelong Democrat. Like all ideas, though, the Democrat ideas need to be dynamic. It needs to be kept current.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Ideas, Needs, Currents

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• The battle against pride in the heart is lifelong, so humility should become an ever more deeply seated attitude of living

  J. I. Packer

  Attitude, Humility, Heart

  J. I. Packer (2014). “finishing our course with joy”, p.43, SPCK

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• When you meet the man [Brassai] you see at once that he is equipped with no ordinary eyes. And the sharpness of vision and depth of insight are revealed in Brassai's lifelong photographic exploration of Paris - its people, places, and things.

  Henry Miller

  Eye, Men, Paris

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• I have lifelong friends. My oldest friend, Herbie, has been a friend since I was 9. I've had bonds for over 50 years with people.

  Larry King

  Ties, Years, People

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• . . . learning never ends, and as we enter the next century, it will be more and more important for all Americans to be lifelong learners. . . . every one of us can contribute in some way to a better-educated America.

  Barbara Bush

  Learning, America, Important

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• My deep belief is that all of us have the same lifelong work: to learn honesty, courage, and love. To learn, in other words, how to be our best selves.

  Martha Beck

  Honesty, Self, And Love

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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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• I think for me it's just a matter of staying keyed into my lifelong friends from New York and family. And, you know, I'm pretty solitary. I'm a homebody. So I don't get out much to get into trouble

  Debra Messing

  New York, Thinking, Matter

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism.

  Charles Kennedy

  Trade, Believer, Unionism

  "Charles Kennedy's speech to the TUC". www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2002.

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• To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track. To do both with excellence is not possible. It is with a sense of sadness and joyous anticipation that I leave track and move on.

  Florence Griffith Joyner

  Dream, Moving, Sadness

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• Knowledge is exploding, so you need to commit yourself to a plan for lifelong learning.

  Don Tapscott

  Needs, Lifelong Learning, Plans

  "The Seven Imperatives for Highly Successful Business Revolutionaries" by Don Tapscott, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2012.

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• Usually, you don't really end up lifelong buddies with your co-stars.

  Lea Thompson

  Stars, Ends, Buddy

  Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2012.

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• Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be brought mind and heart within the presence, the power, of the imagination.

  Eudora Welty

  Reading, Heart, Writing

  Eudora Welty (1962). “Three papers on fiction”

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• I offer something very different from the lifelong career politicians who have worked their way up to run for higher office or those who can parachute in with checks for $5 million or $10 million, and that seems to be the definition of credible or legitimate. I'm rejecting that premise.

  Elizabeth Emken

  Running, Careers, Office

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• And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace, It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones Who win in the lifelong race. And each forgets that his youth has fled, Forgets that his prime is past, Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead, In the glare of the truth at last.

  Robert W. Service

  Running, Failure, Winning

  Robert W. Service (2012). “Robert W. Service: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.46, Dundurn

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• There are no words to describe the pain of burying a child, and specifically there is no word to label their new, lifelong status. If you lose a spouse, you are a widow; if you lose a parent, you are an orphan. But what about when you lose a child? How do you name something you cannot comprehend?

  Lisa Belkin

  Children, Pain, Grieving

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• People see their own lives as stories; a lifelong story with a single hero or heroine... much contemporary unhappiness is due to the fact that people in high tech societies receive neither strong myths and stories from their culture nor the ability to construct their own... they lose the plot.

  Guy Claxton

  Strong, Teaching, Hero

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• My lifelong ambition has been to unite the utmost seriousness of question with the utmost lightness of form.

  Milan Kundera

  Ambition, Form, Seriousness

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• My goal had been to win a championship, work toward the Hall of Fame, have my jersey retired by the team and I'd go in as a lifelong New York Giant, but I'm now resigned to the fact that this won't happen.

  Michael Strahan

  Sports, New York, Team

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• The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Friendship, True Friend, Growth

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2009). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.36, Broadview Press

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• Marriage is not a static state between two unchanging people. Marriage is a psychological and spiritual journey that begins in the ecstasy of attraction, meanders through a rocky stretch of self-discovery, and culminates in the creation of an intimate, joyful, lifelong union.

  Harville Hendrix

  Marriage, Spiritual, Journey

  Harville Hendrix, Ph.D. (2007). “Getting the Love You Want, 20th Anniversary Edition: A Guide for Couples”, p.42, Macmillan

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• Composition can't really be taught, it is a lifelong learning.

  Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

  Taught, Lifelong Learning, Composition

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