Resolution Quotes - Page 32

• In poetry, I didn't have to provide resolution. I could ask hard questions without feeling responsible for the answers.

  Vivek Shraya

  Feelings, Answers, Responsible

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The seminal elements of what makes a story great - challenge, struggle, resolution - are the same whether we're talking about story content for a movie such as 'Rain Man,' or telling a purposeful story to forge new business relationships or conclude a fruitful transaction, such as acquiring an NBA franchise.

  Peter Guber

  Rain, Struggle, Men

  "Why Peter Guber’s Book Tell to Win Is a Game Changer". Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2011.

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• Sometimes it takes all my resolution and power of self-control to refrain from butting my head against the wall. I want to howl and foam at the mouth but I daren't.

  Joseph Conrad

  Wall, Self, Foam

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad: 20 Novels & 26 Short Stories (Including Memoirs, Essays & Letters in One Single Edition): Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists: Heart of Darkness, The Duel, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, The Shadow-Line & Under Western Eyes”, p.5729, e-artnow

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• 1) Temperance... drink not to elevation. (2) Silence... avoid trifling conversations. (3) Order: Let all your things have their places... (4) Resolution... perform without fail what you resolve. (5) Frugality... i.e. waste nothing. (6) Industry: Lose no time; be always employ'd... (7) Sincerity: Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently... (8) Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries... (9) Moderation: Avoid extremes; forbear resenting... (10) Cleanliness: Tolerate no uncleanliness in body... (11) Tranquility: Be not disturbed at trifles... (12) Chastity (13) Humility : Imitate Jesus.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Jesus, Humility, Thinking

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• A republican form of government requires four standards: It demands a highly educated population manifesting critical thinking that participates in the affairs of the nation. It requires that citizens invest in a similar moral code. It insists on a mutual ethical system abided by all. It must engender a single language whereby all citizens can discuss, debate, come to resolution and initiate mutual beneficial action for their society.

  Frosty Wooldridge

  Thinking, Government, Citizens

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• If the federal government has the exclusive right to judge the extent of its own powers, warned the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions' authors (James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, respectively), it will continue to grow - regardless of elections, the separation of powers, and other much-touted limits on government power.

  Thomas Woods

  Government, Kentucky, Virginia

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• There are really two things that drive New Year's resolution success. Number one is telling somebody about your goal. Chances are, they'll either join you in pursuing it or at least support you. Number two is to be concrete and specific. You don't want a goal like "becoming a better person," because there's no objective way to judge that. It's got to be something like "I'm going to call my mother once a week." Or "I'm going to cut my body mass index to 25." It can't be fudgeable.

  Mehmet Oz

  New Year, Mother, Cutting

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• Football offers us a sanitized spectacle of combat that has a clear resolution, which we need more and more today given our incoherent overseas "wars."

  Steve Almond

  Football, War, Needs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The Trump administration has done some bad stuff in the international realm, picking needless fights with allies like Mexico and Australia, even using some idiotic and intemperate language about Iran, but there was one thing they did about Iran that I agree with. Which is if Iran is testing anti-ballistic missiles, it's in violation of a UN Security Council resolution. And we can't ignore that ... And they did condemn the anti-ballistic missile test. And I think they're right about that.

  Tim Kaine

  Fighting, Thinking, Australia

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• The role that Cuba played and the lives of those 2,077 Cubans, whose mothers and families mourn for having lost their children in Africa, helped achieve the true security and independence of Angola. It was a contribution because in the end the Angolan people were the ones who decided that. We also contributed in a definitive way securing the independence of Namibia after years that a United Nations resolution was being ignored by South Africa and the western powers.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Mother, Children, Years

  "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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• Try this New Year's resolution: I won't check my phone, my tablet, or my computer until I've first read a chapter in my Bible.

  Kevin DeYoung

  New Year, Phones, Years

  Twitter post from Dec 27, 2014

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• I like starting off the new year fresh. I'm excited to see how 2013 turns out. Maybe because I'm an actress and I am always on a diet and fitness program, but my New Year's resolution is to let myself be nice to myself about my body.

  Busy Philipps

  New Year, Nice, Years

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

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• Love is blind, as they say, and because love is blind, it often leads to tragedy: to conflicts in which one love is pitted against another love, and something has to give, with suffering guaranteed in any resolution.

  Daniel Dennett

  Love Is, Giving, Suffering

  Daniel C. Dennett (2006). “Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon”, p.254, Penguin

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• We understand the concerns that people have with not only protecting our values, but our privacy interests as well. We think that the USA Freedom Act was a good resolution of that.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Usa, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The U.S. - the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that's hardly even a joke. The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.

  Noam Chomsky

  Law, Ideas, Principles

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• I have never had a NY resolution. While you wait each year to make a resolution you never commit to, I get it done everyday.

  Behdad Sami

  Years, Waiting, Everyday

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• For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes.

  Henry Rollins

  New Year, Years, Height

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• I have nothing
  Of woman in me; now from head to foot
  I am marble-constant.

  William Shakespeare

  Women, Feet, Constant

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 5, sc. 2, l. 237

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• Every photographed object is merely the trace left behind by the disappearance of all the rest. It is an almost perfect crime, an almost total resolution of the world, which merely leave the illusion of a particular object shining forth, the image of which then becomes an impenetrable enigma.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Almost Perfect, Shining, World

  Jean Baudrillard, Peter Weibel (1999). “Fotografien”, Hatje Cantz Pub

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• Stand alone books are nice because they have everything all in one tidy little package. Neverwhere was awesome because you get action, adventure, character development, the exploration of a strange world, PLUS resolution of all the problems and mysteries at the end. No lines no waiting. That's very satisfying. Multi-volume stories are satisfying too, just in a different way.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Nice, Book, Adventure

  Source: aidanmoher.com

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• I voted to threaten the use of force to make Saddam Hussein comply with the resolutions of the United Nations.

  John F. Kerry

  Use, Hussein, Force

  "Tricky John Kerry" by Robert Novak, www.cnn.com. September 5, 2003.

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• Without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.

  Jane Austen

  Errors, People, Feelings

  Emily Brontë, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, Charlotte Brontë (2016). “Classic British Love Stories: Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Far from the Madding Crowd, and Jane Eyre”, p.429, Open Road Media

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• No one can lead a happy life, or even one that is bearable, without the pursuit of wisdom, and that the perfection of wisdom is what makes the happy life, although even the beginnings of wisdom make life bearable. Yet this conviction, clear as it is, needs to be strengthened and given deeper roots through daily reflection; making noble resolutions is not a important as keeping the resolutions you have made already.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happy Life, Reflection, Roots

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• Enlightenment is beyond self-improvement and spiritual seeking. It is the final resolution of a case of mistaken identity. It is the direct recognition of your eternal nature and the seeing through of who you have falsely believed yourself to be.

  Gary Crowley

  Spiritual, Self, Enlightenment

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• When you will, make a resolution, set your jaw, you are expressing an imaginative fear that you won't do the thing. If you knew you would do the thing, you would smile happily and set about it. And this fear (since the imagination is always creative) comes about presently and you slide down into the complete slump of several weeks or years - the very thing you dreaded and set your jaw against.

  Brenda Ueland

  Years, Imagination, Creative

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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