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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• 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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• To accept with unquestioning faith, or to refuse to reconsider any particular view held by the Church in the past, is as unreasonable as it is unsafe. The faith of the Church is a progressive affair.

  George Trumbull Ladd

  Past, Views, Church

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• I actually feel most at home when I find people who make me feel really dumb, who are brilliant at their particular things. And then I gather these people, put them in a room and watch incredible things come out of it.

  Mick Ebeling

  Home, People, Dumb

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• The elements which determine the make of any particular sermon are three; the preacher, the material, and the audience; just as the character of any battle is determined by three elements; the gun (including the gunner), the ammunition, and the fortress against which the attack is made.

  Phillips Brooks

  Character, Gun, Battle

  Phillips Brooks “The Joy of Preaching”, Kregel Publications

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• When one forgets the distinction between method and truth, one becomes foolishly prone to respond to any question that cannot be answered from the vantage of one's particular methodological perch by dismissing it as nonsensical, or by issuing a promissory note guaranteeing a solution to the problem at some juncture in the remote future, or by simply distorting the question into one that looks like the kind one really can answer after all.

  David Bentley

  Looks, Answers, Kind

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• Ill smoke anything anybody gives me, Im not particular.

  Peter Falk

  Giving, Ill, Give Me

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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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• Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion - painting, writing, music. People seem less status-conscious. Even wealthy people buy second-hand clothes and look a little bit homeless.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Writing, Passion, Hands

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• In the bureaucracy, the identity of state interest and particular private aim is established in such a way that the state interest becomes a particular private aim over against other private aims.

  Karl Marx

  Identity, Way, States

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “Collected works”

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• I think people love it when anybody acts bad; its not particular to me.

  Kevin Spacey

  Thinking, People

  "Kevin Spacey: Power Broker of the Year 2013" by Chris Heath, www.gq.com. November 19, 2013.

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• We seek absolute neutrality in Buddhism. We don't want to be drawn into anything in particular. We don't want to be pushed away from anything in particular.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Neutrality, Want

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• The Tibetan Buddhist realization is that mind does not have any particular qualities or attributes of its own. It's clear - clear light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Light

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• There are different worlds, endless worlds, and different beings come from different worlds. In my particular case, I come from the stillness. We call it the dharmakaya, the clear light of reality. I know it quite well.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reality, Light

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