Majors Quotes - Page 35

• I am not greedy. I do not seek to possess the major portion of your days. I am content if, on those rare occasions whose truth can be stated only by poetry, you will, perhaps, recall an image, even only the aura of my films.

  Maya Deren

  Rare Occasion, Auras, Film

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• I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont men's college at the time, to New York. And I worked on Wall Street.

  Henry Kravis

  Summer, New York, Wall

  "Avatar of American Finance". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 12, 1991.

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• I am the very model of a modern major general

  W. S. Gilbert

  Modern, Minerals, Calculus

  The Pirates of Penzance act 1 (1879)

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• At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that.

  Anita Roddick

  Jobs, Queens, Awards

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• No biologist has actually seen the origin by evolution of a major group of organisms.

  G. Ledyard Stebbins

  Groups, Evolution, Biologist

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• I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.

  Neko Case

  Hypocrite, Would Be, Labels

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• I have been curious about the mind and body for as long as I can remember. I was a gymnast, a ballet dancer, and a philosophy and physical therapy major. Following the thread of curiosity about mind and body, I took my first yoga class in 1980 and knew from the start that it would be a lifelong passion.

  Rodney Yee

  Philosophy, Yoga, Passion

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• As an economy measures performance in terms of the creation of money, people become a major source of inefficiency.

  David Korten

  People, Creation, Economy

  David C. Korten (1995). “When Corporations Rule the World”, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• A leader always has one major message, and this weaves into everything he or she does. It remains the primary focus. A leader is to some degree a  prophet, a person with a message. Great leader [sic] see things that others don’t. They preach it until others can see it as well. Their message supports the mission. A leader is a preacher, a person who communicates the fire of the mission. Not all preachers are leaders, but all great leaders will be preachers of one sort or another.

  Phil Pringle

  Fire, Focus, Support

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• I think a major act of leadership right now, call it a radical act, is to create the places and processes so people can actually learn together, using our experiences

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Leadership, Thinking, People

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• Most people work fifty weeks a year so they can do this the other 2. Well the smart ones live in a ski resort, where the boss lets them have powder snow days off. And almost forty feet of snow falls every winter thats a lot of days off. A lot of doing what you moved here to do. Most major ski resorts are now so big that regardles of what kind ofjob you have in a city there's probably a job almost exactly like yours in a ski rsort like this. So quit your job and rent that U-haul trailer now so next winter this can be you. Not you just sitting there watching this and wishing that this was you.

  Warren Miller

  Jobs, Smart, Fall

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• I cannot see that any rational American. . . could conceivably try to fulfill the major national purposes of the United States through the United Nations. It would be comparable to the United States seeking to pass its legislation through the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

  Charles Lichenstein

  Trying, Purpose, United States

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• Many years ago I was driven to the conclusion that the two major causes of most emotional problems among evangelical Christians are these: the failure to understand, receive, and live into God's unconditional grace and forgiveness; and the failure to give out that unconditional love, forgiveness, and grace to other peopleWe read, we hear, we believe a good theology of grace. But that's not the way we live. The good news of the Gospel of grace has not penetrated the level of our emotions.

  David Seamands

  Christian, Believe, Unconditional Love

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• SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Logic, Assumption

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2522, Delphi Classics

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• This is a sad day for the Minnesota Twins, Major League Baseball and baseball fans everywhere. I loved Kirby deeply. A tremendous teammate, Kirby will always be remembered for his never-ending hustle, infectious personality, trademark smile and commitment to the community.

  Carl Pohlad

  Baseball, Commitment, League

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• Whenever we play the Twins, Torii Hunter has a major impact on defense. He tells the left fielder and the right fielder to take the day off and he covers the whole outfield.

  Ken Macha

  Impact, Play, Hunters

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• The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death.

  Stanislav Grof

  Gdp, Objectivity, Data

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• The dialectical or ecological approach asserts that creating the world is involved in our every act. It is impossible for us to operate in our daily lives and not create the world that everyone must live in. What we desire arranges the genetic code in all of our major crops and livestock. We cannot avoid participating in the creation, and it is in agriculture, far and away our largest and most basic artifact, that human culture and the creation totally interpenetrate.

  Wes Jackson

  Creating, Agriculture, Desire

  Wes Jackson (2015). “Becoming Native to This Place”, p.22, Counterpoint

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• Im looking forward to the World Cup because I believe Wayne Rooney could be one of the major finds in world football.

  Bobby Charlton

  Football, Believe, World

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• Major third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Alcohol, Overcoming, Complication

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• Restoring accountability will be one of the major priorities of our new government. Accountability is what ordinary Canadians, working Canadians, those people who pay their bills, pay their taxes, expect from their political leaders.

  Stephen Harper

  Government, People, Leader

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• It is impossible for any Christian who spends the bulk of his evenings, month after month, week upon week, day in and day out watching the major TV networks or contemporary videos to have a Christian mind. This is always true of all Christians in every situation! A Biblical mental program cannot coexist with worldly programming.

  R. Kent Hughes

  Christian, Biblical, Mind

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• I believe that transatlantic relations are very important and that President Bush's visit to Brussels, in a few days, will have a major impact on that.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  Believe, Impact, Important

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• That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

  Paul Berg

  Technology, Dna, Receiving

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• All of the government's monetary, economic and political power, as well as its extensive propaganda machinery, will be enlisted in a constant battle to drive down the price of gold - but in the absence of any fundamental change in the nation's monetary, fiscal, and economic direction, simply regard any major retreat in the price of gold as an unexpected buying opportunity.

  Irwin Schiff

  Opportunity, Government, Political

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