Majors Quotes - Page 15

• I like to say, and I truly believe, that every run brings new experiences. You just don't know what they might be until you actually do the run. That's one of my major reasons for pushing out the front door as often as I do-the adventure of it all.

  Amby Burfoot

  Running, Believe, Adventure

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• My daughter just graduated college and she's a dance major. She's done a couple of dance videos already and won Miss Massachusetts a couple of weeks ago. She's going out for Miss United States the second week of July, out in Las Vegas. She will probably wind up going to New York and trying the Broadway thing.

  Doug Flutie

  Daughter, Mother, New York

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• The major job was getting people to understand that they had something within their power that they could use, and it could only be used if they understood what was happening and how group action could counter violence.

  Ella Baker

  Jobs, Power, People

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• Never make a major decision based solely on money.

  Chuck Noll

  Football, Nfl, Decision

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• I have a deep love and respect for children and I cannot imagine photographic life without them playing a major part. I hope that through my work as a photographer, I have been able to pass on my appreciation of their beauty and charm.

  Anne Geddes

  Beauty, Appreciation, Art

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• Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?

  David R. Brower

  Years, Luxury, Energy

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• The onset of more severe climate impacts overseas may also open up temporary opportunities, or 'policy windows.' These would allow legislators the licence to take specific bold actions which they ordinarily believe would not otherwise be possible or politically acceptable...In effect, envisaged solutions can become rapidly translated into practical options for action following a major disaster or near-miss.

  John Beddington

  Believe, Opportunity, Impact

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• We need a more authoritative world...What's the alternative to democracy? There isn't one. But even the best democracies agree that when a major war approaches, democracy must be put on hold for the time being. I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as war. It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while.

  James Lovelock

  War, Issues, Feelings

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• Protecting dozens of major coastal cities from future flooding will be challenging enough-rebuilding major coastal cities destroyed by super-hurricanes will be an almost impossible task.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Cities, Weather, Challenges

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• There is a huge shift taking place in the global awareness in the last 5 years with strong views about globalization and the power structures of major corporations.

  David Korten

  Strong, Views, Years

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• My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.

  James Broughton

  Writing, Issues, Flags

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• Integrity is not a character trait that one possesses more or less of but a sophisticated state of processing experience in the world one enters into in varying degrees. Integrating is a major developmental task at every stage of life.

  David A. Kolb

  Integrity, Character, Degrees

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• If we're successful in Iraq ... we will have struck a major blow right at the heart of the base, if you will, the geographic base of the terrorists who have had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 9/11.

  Dick Cheney

  War, Heart, Successful

  "Meet the Press" with Mr. Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. September 7, 2003.

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• My fellow Americans: Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.

  George W. Bush

  War, Iraq, Missions

  "Bush makes historic speech aboard warship". edition.cnn.com. May 2, 2003.

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• We find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for the first time, we are faced with ultimacy, the irreversible closing down of the earth's functioning in its major life systems. Our ethical traditions know how to deal with suicide, homicide and even genocide, but these traditions collapse entirely when confronted with biocide, the killing of the life systems of the earth, and geocide, the devastation of the earth itself.

  Thomas Berry

  Suicide, Environmental, Earth

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.104, Crown

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• I always took my role as a leader, and certainly chairman and CEO of a major company very seriously as to our employees and trying to create opportunities for them and create opportunities where they could even, as I said many times, could realize their God-given potential and maybe realize more potential than even they realize they had.

  Kenneth Lay

  Opportunity, Leader, Trying

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• I hate outlines. I have a broad sense of where the story is going; I know the end, I know the end of the principal characters, and I know the major turning points and events from the books, the climaxes for each book, but I don't necessarily know each twist and turn along the way. That's something I discover in the course of writing and that's what makes writing enjoyable. I think if I outlined comprehensively and stuck to the outline the actual writing would be boring.

  George R. R. Martin

  Hate, Book, Writing

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• Here's the first major lesson: Writing is not an activity. It's not something you sit down at the keyboard, and just start doing. That's called 'typing.' Typing is an activity ... Writing is a process. And if you start thinking of it as a process, life gets so much easier.

  Jeff Bollow

  Writing, Thinking, Lessons

  Jeff Bollow (2004). “Writing FAST: How to Write Anything with Lightning Speed”, p.15, Embryo Films

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• I have seen women walk right past a TV set with a football game on and - this always amazes me - not stop to watch, even if the TV is showing replays of what we call a "good hit," which is a tackle that causes at least one major internal organ to actually fly out of a player's body.

  Dave Barry

  Football, Past, Player

  Dave Barry (2012). “The Greatest Invention in the History of Mankind Is Beer: And Other Manly Insights from Dave Barry”, p.33, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The major difference between the 'best' and the 'average' is that the 'best' get as much pleasure from practice as performance.

  Benjamin Zander

  Teaching, Learning, Practice

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• We see community organizations as major service providers and economic drivers rather than as recipients or distributors of charity, and coordinators of volunteers. Today they constitute what's referred to as 'the social economy'.

  Julia Gillard

  Organization, Volunteer, Community

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• If we assume that the purpose of the economy is to serve and improve the welfare of the entire body of citizens, the U.S. model has clearly been a major failure. It has served a minority, and the majority have not only failed to share in the income gains yielded by the model, they have suffered from reduced benefits, greater job instability and stress, and a diminution of expectations and sense of hope for the future.

  Edward S. Herman

  Jobs, Stress, Expectations

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• Successful people, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession.

  Napoleon Hill

  Success, People, Purpose

  Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles (2012). “Get Rich Collection”, p.60, Penguin

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• We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis.

  David Rockefeller

  Eugenics, World Government, Order

  "Common Sense 2009" by Larry Flynt, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2009.

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• Either the Earth System would undergo major phase transitions as a result of unchecked human pressure on nature's capacities and resources or a "Great Transformation" towards global sustainability would be initiated in due course. Neither transitions nor transformations will be manageable without novel forms of global governance and markets.

  Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

  Transition, Would Be, Phases

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