Particular Quotes

• One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

  Aristotle

  Integrity, Destiny, Men

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.

  Joseph Campbell

  Yoga, Positivity, Free Your Mind

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• I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.

  Tom Glavine

  Movie, Taken, Skills

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• Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, History, Poetry

  "Poetics". Book by Aristotle, 1451b, 6, 335 BCE.

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• When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.

  Kalpana Chawla

  Strong Women, Stars, Land

  "What? Is! the Meaning of Life" by Dream Catcher Paul Fisette, (p. 79), 2008.

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• Life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Focus And Concentration, Deciding What To Do

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• It's simple ... go the extra mile and you will stand out from the crowd

  Robin Crow

  Motivational, Simple, Excellence

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• I practice my saxophone three hours a day. I'm not saying I'm particularly special, but if you do something three hours a day for forty years, you get pretty good at it.

  Kenny G

  Inspirational, Music, Years

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• In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins.

  Alice Walker

  Winning, Views

  "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose". Book by Alice Walker, 1983.

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• The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.

  Lord Acton

  Rights, Government, Class

  "Letters of Lord Acton to Mary Gladstone". Book by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1913.

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• You cannot help another who will not help him or herself. In the end, all souls must walk their path - and the reason they are walking a particular path may not be clear to us... or even to them at the level of ordinary human consciousness. Do what you can to help others, of course. Show love and caring whenever and wherever you can. But do not get caught up in someone else's "story" to the point where you start writing it.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Love, Writing, Caring

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Oct 03, 2014

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• With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.

  Sydney Pollack

  Art, Creating, Culture

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• In particular, this arm has 7 degrees-of-freedom that makes the overall motion of the arm very complex so that, before you start driving the arm, you should be very familiar with all the position it can get.

  Umberto Guidoni

  Degrees, Arms, Driving

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• If you are a friend of the Constitution as I am, I hope you will consider engaging me in the topics of my posts whether you agree or disagree with my position on a particular subject.

  John Jay Hooker

  Topics, Constitution, Economy

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• So you have to force yourself out of a comfort zone and really try to figure out what are the key ingredients, the key skill sets, the key perspectives that are necessary, and then figure out a way to attract the very best people to fill those particular roles.

  Steve Case

  Keys, Skills, People

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• The public schools are supported entirely, in most communities, by public funds-funds exacted not only from parents, nor alone from those who hold particular religious views, nor indeed from those who subscribe to any creed at all.

  William J. Brennan

  Religious, School, Views

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• Propaganda by censorship takes two forms: the selective control of information to favour a particular viewpoint, and the deliberate doctoring of information in order to create an impression different from that originally intended.

  James A.C. Brown

  Order, Two, Atheism

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• When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue.

  Anthony Holden

  Growing Up, War, Princess

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• Money is very useful in this particular world to buy you space. In the old days, there were not too many people on the planet. Today everybody owns the forests and woods and there are "No Trespassing" signs everywhere.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Careers

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• What is will? It is a decision. It is a decision to be something. We really aren't anything in particular. We can be anything. That's the good news.

  Frederick Lenz

  Decision, News, Personal Power

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• Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government. Apart from constitutional law and religious doctrine, there is a sense that tells us it's wrong to presume to speak for God or to claim God's sanction of our particular legislation and his rejection of all other positions. Most of us are offended when we see religion being trivialized by its appearance in political throw-away pamphlets.

  Mario Cuomo

  Religious, Government, Law

  "Religious Belief and Public Morality: A Catholic Governor's Perspective". John A. O'Brien Lecture in the University of Notre Dame's Department of Theology, archives.nd.edu. September 13, 1984.

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• But the United States is neither a Christian nation nor the exclusive home of any particular religious group. Non-Christians are not guests. We are as much hosts as any Mayflower-descendant Protestant. It is our home as well as theirs. And in a home with so many owners, there can be no official sectarian prayer. That is what the First Amendment is all about, and the first act by the new administration was in defiance of our Constitution.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Christian, Religious, Prayer

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