Majors Quotes - Page 26

Testimony is a result of choice, not circumstance. In all seasons of my life, testimony has been a conscious choice - and this choice has given everything else in my life meaning. Building a testimony is the beginning of building a happy life. Testimony grows step by step as we invest the effort to exercise faith and hope as active parts of everyday living. Prayer is a major tool to help us gain faith and hope.

Elaine L. Jack

Life, Prayer, Exercise

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Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Book, Age, Half

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1903). “Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other papers”

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Making the majors is not as hard as staying there, staying interested day after day. It's like being married. The hardest part is to stay married.

Hank Aaron

Married, Hardest, Staying

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The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed people, their collective wisdom will be smarter than an expert's. But if you can assemble a diverse group of people who possess varying degrees of knowledge and insight, you're better off entrusting it with major decisions rather than leaving them in the hands of one or two people, no matter how smart those people are.

James Surowiecki

Wisdom, Smart, Mean

James Surowiecki (2005). “The Wisdom of Crowds”, p.31, Anchor

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Letting him manage in the major leagues is like sending Bo Derek through cellblock A without a bodyguard.

Bill James

Sports, League, Psychology

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I believe you came into the world to accomplish something, and that the something you came to accomplish is not small or insignificant, that's not worthy of you. You came here to make a major contribution to life on this planet.

Paul Solomon

Children, Believe, World

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I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.

Smedley Butler

Wall, Marine, Men

"War Is a Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", www.businessinsider.com. 1935.

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The major value of reaching goals is not to acquire it, but it's the person you become while you're working to acquire it.

Jim Rohn

Goal, Mind Your Own Business, Reaching

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My experience to date has been that change, particularly relative to business, rarely happens in a revolutionary way. That isn't to say there are not times when major change happens, but my experience is that particularly when you're encouraging businesses to change of their own volition, the change is more slow over time. I don't think global trade is going to go away. I think it's unlikely that global trade and multinationals are not going to be around.

Jeffrey Hollender

Change, Business, Thinking

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If a business is to be considered a continuous process, instead of a series of disjointed stop-and-go events, then the economic universe in which a business operates-and all the major events within it-must have rhyme, rhythm, or reason.

Peter Drucker

Business, Events, Reason

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Adopt and change before any major trends or changes.

Jack Ma

Leadership, Business, Trends

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New insights fail to get put into practice because they conflict with deeply held internal images of how the world works...images that limit us to familiar ways of thinking and acting. That is why the discipline of managing mental models - surfacing, testing, and improving our internal pictures of how the world works - promises to be a major breakthrough for learning organizations.

Peter Senge

Thinking, Practice, Organization

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All poets who, when reading from their own works,m experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read from their own works are major, whether they choke or not.

E. B. White

Reading, Feelings, Experience

1939 Quo Vadimus?, 'How To Tell A Major Poet From A Minor Poet'.

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I can't think of a major story that we have broken that was incorrect. But we have had to correct some things that were false; we have had to retract things.

Mary Hart

Broken Heart, Thinking, Broken Promises

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The TV set, or Satanic family altar, has grown more elaborate since the early 50s, from the tiny, fuzzy screen to huge ‘entertainment centers’ covering entire walls with several TV monitors. What started as an innocent respite from everyday life has become in itself a replacement for real life for millions, a major religion of the masses.

Anton Szandor LaVey

Wall, Real, Everyday

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The propaganda system allows the U.S. Ieadership to commit crimes without limit and with no suggestion of misbehavior or criminality; in fact, major war criminals like Henry Kissinger appear regularly on TV to comment on the crimes of the derivative butchers.

Edward S. Herman

War, Criminals, Suggestions

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Did Ethan Smith's View of the Hebrews furnish structural material for Joseph Smith's Book of Mormon? It has been pointed out in these pages that there are many things in the former book that might well have suggested many major things in the other.Not a few things merely, one or two, or half dozen, but many; and it is this fact of many things of similarity and the cumulative force of them that makes them so serious a menace to Joseph Smith's story of the Book of Mormon's origin

B. H. Roberts

Book, Two, Views

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My life has never been easy. It's like all the major events of my life have always been difficult.

Florence Henderson

Events, Easy, Difficult

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We've had a major shift in what truth is and where it comes from. We've gone from being God-centered to self-centered, from being objective to being subjective and from being internal to external.

Josh McDowell

Self, Gone, Truth Is

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In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience...With no membership lists or even a coherent philosophy or dogma, it is difficult to define or measure the unorganized New Age movement. But in every major U.S. and European city, thousands who seek insight and personal growth cluster around a metaphysical bookstore, a spiritual teacher, or an education center.

John Naisbitt

Spiritual, Teacher, Philosophy

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If I thought I had hurt my chances of winning another major just because I was chasing money around, I'd wind up kicking myself.

Mike Weir

Sports, Money, Hurt

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Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information.

Roger Wicker

Mean, Agency, Law

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Which other major religion is based on the Godhead incarnate being whipped, tacked to a cross, stabbed? Only the Marquis de Sade could have made up a sicker religion. It's no wonder that those brought up in such a culture hate life and enjoy inflicting pain. All societies are sick but some are sicker than others. Christian societies are certainly the sickest.

Gore Vidal

Christian, Pain, Hate

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Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern.

Antony Hewish

Teaching, Physics, Concern

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So, yeah, I think it had a major effect. I think in franchising younger people, it was just an idea that's never been trotted out before, but it makes perfectly good sense.

Kurt Loder

Thinking, Perfectly Good, Ideas

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