Reason Quotes - Page 24

• Often, our most rewarding dreams are staring us right in the face, but for some reason we focus on how hard things are, how we are scared of the unknown and what would happen if we failed.

  Joel Brown

  Dream, Focus, Faces

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• Life is not always easy. And that is a major reason why it is so precious. Many of life's best rewards are possible only because you must work your way through difficult challenges to get to them. If everything in life were easy, there would be no opportunity for real fulfillment.

  Ralph Marston

  Real, Opportunity, Challenges

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• I'm loved unconditionally, for no other reason than simply because I exist.

  Anita Moorjani

  Anita Moorjani (2012). “Dying to be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing”, p.70, Hay House, Inc

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• I see no reason that a golf course cannot be played in 18 birdies. Just because no one has ever done that doesn't mean it can't be done.

  Ben Hogan

  Mean, Golf, Done

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• And make sure that capital structure we have in place is the right capital structure. I think that's the reason that we've been successful.

  Henry Kravis

  Successful, Thinking, Structure

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• When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Path, Should, Certain

  "Aung San Suu Kyi: I never hated the Burmese army". Interview with Scott Pelley, www.cbsnews.com. June 18, 2012.

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• Nothing
  happens without a reason.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Happens, Things Happen

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• Don’t make excuses for why you can’t get it done. Focus on all the reasons why you must make it happen.

  Ralph Marston

  Focus, Done, Reason Why

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• If our lives do not reflect radical compassion for the poor, there is reason to wonder if Christ is really in us at all

  David Platt

  Compassion, Wonder, Christ

  David Platt (2010). “Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream”, p.108, Multnomah

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• One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Art, Order, Important

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• That which is apprehended by intelligence and reason is always in the same state; but that which is conceived by opinion with the help of sensation and without reason, is always in a process of becoming and perishing and never really is.

  Plato

  Becoming, Helping, Opinion

  Plato (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)”, p.2120, Delphi Classics

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• The reason good women like me and flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman.

  Theda Bara

  Ghouls, Good Woman, Vampire

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• Modern totalitarianism can be defined as the establishment, by means of the state of exception, of a legal civil war that allows for the physical elimination not only of political adversaries but of entire categories of citizens who for some reason cannot be integrated into the political system

  Giorgio Agamben

  War, Mean, Political

  Giorgio Agamben (2008). “State of Exception”, p.2, University of Chicago Press

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• Television is a non graded curriculum and excludes no viewer for any reason, at any time. In other words, in doing away wtih the idea of sequenece and continuity in education, television undermines the idea that sequence and continuity have anything to do with thought itself.

  Neil Postman

  Ideas, Television, Curriculum

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• Because you lack a noble and successful past is no reason why you should lack a noble and successful future.

  Thomas Dreier

  Perseverance, Successful, Past

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• Each climber loses one finger or toe once in a while. This is a small but important reason for Polish climbers success. Western climbers haven't lost as many fingers or toes.

  Wanda Rutkiewicz

  Climbing, Important, Toes

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• Is it acting a true vocation?... I say it is a gift...And fame? Neither sought nor expected... still confounds and amazes and disturbs. Whatever the reason... I am so very delighted that it did happen... I would not have missed it for the world.

  Ruth Cracknell

  Art, Acting, World

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• One big reason I do what I do is there's no two days alike. It's not work for me. It's my life. My passion.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Passion, Two, Bigs

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• I never thought I was a libertarian until I picked up Reason magazine and realized I agree with everything they had printed.

  Drew Carey

  Magazines, Politics, Libertarian

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• A man who possesses a veneration of life will not simply say his prayers. He will throw himself into the battle to preserve life, if for no other reason than that he himself is an extension of life around him.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Prayer, Men, Battle

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• Reason is intuition's servant.

  Albert Einstein

  Intuition, Servant

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• Reason cannot account for those moments in life that "bewilder the intellect yet utterly quiet the heart," as G.K. Chesterton observed.

  Eric Weiner

  Heart, Quiet, Moments

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• Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.

  Luis Bunuel

  Memories, Feelings, Our Actions

  Luis Bunuel (2011). “My Last Breath”, p.9, Random House

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• God planted a dream in your heart for a reason. No one else can dream it for you. No one else will accomplish it for you.

  Joel Osteen

  Dream, Heart, Accomplish

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• I think one of the reasons younger people don't like older films, films made say before the '60s, is that they've never seen them on a big screen, ever. If you don't see a film on a big screen, you haven't really seen it. You've seen a version of it, but you haven't seen it. That's my feeling, but I'm old-fashioned.

  Peter Bogdanovich

  Thinking, People, Feelings

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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