Missions Quotes - Page 26

• Green is not just about renewable energy. It's also about creating a new direction for the whole economy. This requires government to step up, not step back, creating the kinds of mission-oriented public organizations that will enable us to tackle climate change - as ambitious as those that got us to the moon. It also requires the financial sector to be less short-term since we know that short-term finance has distorted incentives and directions in areas like biotechnology.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Moon, Government, Organization

  Source: www.salon.com

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• What is needed is both a New Deal in terms of mission-oriented investments but also a new deal in terms of a modern social compact - one that allows the state to socialize not only risks but also rewards. Maybe then innovation-led growth will also become growth that includes all of us.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Risk, Innovation, Growth

  Source: www.salon.com

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• The stated objective and the mission of Vladimir Putin's Russia is to destabilize the North Atlantic Alliance.

  Mark Shields

  Russia, Alliances, Putin

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It will be the CIA's mission and my own if confirmed to ensure that the agency remains the best in the world at its core mission - collecting what our enemies do not want us to know. In short, the CIA must be the world's premier espionage organization.

  Mike Pompeo

  Organization, Agency, Enemy

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think I'm led by spirit. I think I'm led by a sense of what is right and what feels good to me - what I accept, what is joyful, what is positive. I see my mission, in a way, as carrying that forward - not so much by preaching, but by embodiment.

  Alice Walker

  Thinking, Feel Good, Embodiment

  Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

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• I co-founded Duolingo with the mission of bringing free language education to the world.

  Luis von Ahn

  World, Language

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• From our side, from our part as government, we have two missions: the first one is to fight those terrorists to liberate that area [eastern part of Aleppo] and the civilians from those terrorists, and at the same time to try to find a solution to evacuate that area from those terrorists if they accept, let's say, what you call it reconciliation option, in which they either give up their armaments for amnesty, or they leave that area.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Giving Up, Fighting, Government

  Source: www.globalresearch.ca

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• We have to wait and see when Donald J. Trump embarks his new mission, let's say, or position within this administration as President.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Waiting, President, Administration

  Source: www.globalresearch.ca

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• By the time we got to Courageous, we were bringing in more outsiders, so any time we would bring in outsiders, we would offer to pay them, and [as for volunteers from] the church, because they were getting the benefit of the income to all the ministries of the church and the mission, the building program and all those things, they knew up-front that they were volunteering and gladly did so.

  Stephen Kendrick

  Volunteer, Church, Income

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• People who have stuck to their vision and mission no matter what. They inspire me. The people who wake up to non-glamorous lives to continue pushing to do what God has called them to do.

  LeCrae

  People, Inspire, Vision

  Source: thelightnc.hellobeautiful.com

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• If we continue to stay focused on our mission and not get sidetracked with everything else we stand a chance at really changing this world.

  LeCrae

  World, Chance, Stay Focused

  Source: thelightnc.hellobeautiful.com

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• For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.

  Wole Soyinka

  Deuces, Occupation

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• It is essential for America to understand what our mission is in Iran, and that is to dissuade Iran from having a nuclear weapon through peaceful and diplomatic means.

  Mitt Romney

  Mean, Iran, America

  Source: genius.com

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• Some of the mission groups that have been responsible for our education have not been part of the government. In fact, they acted contrary to what the government had planned to do.

  Nelson Mandela

  Government, Groups, Facts

  Source: www.mott.org

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• I'm still an Apple person, but let's just say the magic aura is gone. In a way that was a sad thing to lose, but I feel better for it. It's just a machine now, not linked with any greater mission or mystique.

  Alex Gibney

  Feel Better, Apples, Magic

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• If somebody comes before me and I think that they will do a good job in fulfilling the mission - even if I might not have nominated them - if I think they're gonna do a good job, I vote for 'em.

  Tim Kaine

  Jobs, Thinking, Might

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I think that Europe has to get its act together very quickly. The Belgian guy who's leading the negotiations against Brexit, he sees it as a whole chance to reboot Europe and reclaim the kind of social mission of Europe from all this corporate, bureaucratic, globalist stuff that has got into, building Europe for the people rather than the banks, again.

  Irvine Welsh

  Thinking, Europe, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• My voice is my gift. And Pops had me using it in the right way. I had many offers to sing pop, to sing rhythm and blues. Pops said "Mavis, this record company want to give you a million dollars." I said, "No daddy, I want to sing with the family." And I did. I never wanted to branch out by myself. But I've had to now. It's my mission. I've been left here to do it. And I'm grateful.

  Mavis Staples

  Grateful, Voice, Daddy

  "Mavis Staples Interview: Staple Singers, Elvis Presley, Martin Luther King, Jr., and that one time in Memphis". Interview with Ed Masley, www.azcentral.com. March 1, 2017.

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• I have had a truly great life in business, but now my sole and exclusive mission is to go to work for our country, to go to work for you. It's time to deliver a victory for the American people. We don't win anymore, but we are going to start winning again.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Winning, People

  Donald Trump’s Speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, abcnews.go.com. July 22, 2016.

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• Every government has signed up to a voluntary legal commitment under at least one of the international covenants and conventions based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. But who is holding them to account? Our mission is to make it known that these conventions are good tools for civil society to hold their local authority, their government and businesses accountable.

  Mary Robinson

  Commitment, Rights, Government

  Source: www.who.int

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• The war in Afghanistan was fought for feminist reasons, and the Marines were really on this feminist mission. But today, all the women in all these countries have been driven back into medieval situations. Women who were liberated, women who were doctors and lawyers and poets and writers and - you know, pushed back into this Shia set against Sunnis. The U.S. is supporting al-Qaeda militias all over this region and pretending that it's fighting Islam. So we are in a situation that is psychopathic.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, War, Fighting

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• My "mission", if you can call it that, is to connect with my readers on an emotional level and have them come away with a stronger impression of the basic message in the story I am illustrating.

  Floyd Cooper

  Emotional, Stronger, Messages

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that same sense of public service. They are simply pirates. Yes, there are fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, who appear to be in charge of the White House at the moment, but they are very different from the Christian gentlemen who ran the British Empire and believed they were doing good works around the world. These days it's about naked power.

  John Pilger

  Christian, Believe, White

  Source: progressive.org

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• In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can you really bomb feminism into a country? And now, after 25 years of brutal war - 10 years against the Soviet occupation, 15 years of US occupation - the Taliban is riding back to Kabul and will soon be back to doing business with the United States.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, War, Marine

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Each human being is a citizen of the world. We have many identities, of which one of the identities is our human identity. And that's something that the schools can provide, but that requires again a vision rather than being centers of hatred. It could be an enormous opportunity to give that mission.

  Amartya Sen

  School, Opportunity, Giving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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