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• Focusing on the score attaches you to the result. Focusing on the process lets you access your greatest skill and increases your fun.

  John Douillard

  Fun, Skills, Increase

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• Anyone can do anything because everything is the result of someone.

  Alex Day

  Can Do

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• Some of our struggles involve making decisions, while others are a result of the decisions we have made. Some of our struggles result from choices others make that affect our lives. We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.

  L. Lionel Kendrick

  Pain, Struggle, Choices

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• In the mid-1980s, operating problems took [nuclear] plants off-line so often that, on an annual basis, they operated at only about 55 percent of their rated total generating capacity. Today, as a result of several decades of experience and an intense focus on performance ... nuclear plants in the United States operate at over 90 percent of capacity. That improvement in operating efficiently is so significant in its impact that it can almost be seen as a new source in electric power itself.

  Daniel Yergin

  Electric Power, Impact, Focus

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• According to one study by the United States Geological survey, 86 percent of oil reserves in the United States are the result not of what is estimated at the time of discovery but of the revisions and additions that come with further development.

  Daniel Yergin

  Oil, Discovery, Revision

  Daniel Yergin (2011). “The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World”, p.206, Penguin

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• Famine was quite deliberately employed as an instrument of national policy, as the last means of breaking the resistance of the peasantry to the new system where they are divorced from personal ownership of the land and obligated to work on the conditions which the state may demand from them... This famine may fairly be called political because it was not the result of any overwhelming natural catastrophe or such complete exhaustions of the country's resources in foreign and civil wars.

  William Henry Chamberlin

  Country, War, Mean

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• Scientists have no proof that life was not the result of an act of creation.

  Robert Jastrow

  Creation, Scientist, Proof

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• Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth.

  Marston Morse

  Play, Design, Important

  Marston Morse, Raoul Bott (1981). “Selected papers”, Springer Verlag

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• When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East--above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread in Europe--we discover there many a truth, and truths so profound, and which make such a contrast with the meanness of the results at which European genius has sometimes stopped, that we are constrained to bend the knee before the philosophy of the East, and to see in this cradle of the human race the native land of the highest philosophy.

  Victor Cousin

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Race

  Victor Cousin (1852). “Course of the History of Modern Philosophy”, p.32

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• Do these fuels result always and necessarily in one way from the decomposition of a pre-existing organic substance? Is it thus with the hydrocarbons so frequently observed in volcanic eruptions and emanations, and to which M. Ch. Sainte-Claire Deville has called attention in recent years? Finally, must one assign a parralel origin to carbonaceous matter and to hydrocarbons contained in certain meteorites, and which appear to have an origin foreign to our planet? These are questions on which the opinion of many distinguished geologists does not as yet appear to be fixed.

  Marcellin Berthelot

  Years, Fuel, Matter

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• Thomas Stanley has not only found no correlation between success in school and an ability to accumulate wealth, he's actually found a negative correlation. 'It seems that school-related evaluations are poor predictors of economic success,' Stanley concluded. What did predict success was a willingness to take risks. Yet the success-failure standards of most schools penalized risk takers. Most educational systems reward those who play it safe. As a result, those who do well in school find it hard to take risks later on.

  Richard Farson

  Educational, School, Play

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• The process of writing a book is infinitely more important than the book that is completed as a result of the writing, let alone the success or failure that book may have after it is written . . . the book is merely a symbol of the writing. In writing the book, I am living. I am growing. I am tapping myself. I am changing. The process is the product.

  Theodore Isaac Rubin

  Book, Writing, Important

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• It's objective evaluations that give our hardwiring principles teeth and drive the organization toward results that last.

  Quint Studer

  Teaching, Learning, Organization

  Quint Studer (2010). “Results That Last: Hardwiring Behaviors That Will Take Your Company to the Top”, p.106, John Wiley & Sons

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• Employees want to believe their company has a meaningful purpose. They want to know that their own job is worthwhile. They want to make a difference. If all three of these conditions are accomplished, bottom line results will follow.

  Quint Studer

  Meaningful, Jobs, Teaching

  Quint Studer (2010). “Results That Last: Hardwiring Behaviors That Will Take Your Company to the Top”, p.143, John Wiley & Sons

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• I'm always willing to accept change, just as long as it isn't change for the sake of change. If that change will result in a better way of doing things, then I'm all for it.

  James Van Fleet

  Long, Progress, Sake

  James K. Van Fleet (1987). “Hidden Power: How to Unleash the Power of Your Subconscious Mind”, p.37, Penguin

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• Without the concepts, methods and results found and developed by previous generations right down to Greek antiquity one cannot understand either the aims or achievements of mathematics in the last 50 years. [Said in 1950]

  Hermann Weyl

  Years, Achievement, Greek

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• Among the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be mentioned the fleshless and skeletal build of its propositions; the peculiar difficulty, complication, and stress of its reasonings; the perfect exactitude of its results; their broad universality; their practical infallibility.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Stress, Math, Perfect

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1931). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”

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• Can the difficulty of an exam be measured by how many bits of information a student would need to pass it? This may not be so absurd in the encyclopedic subjects but in mathematics it doesn't make any sense since things follow from each other and, in principle, whoever knows the bases knows everything. All of the results of a mathematical theorem are in the axioms of mathematics in embryonic form, aren't they?

  Alfred Renyi

  Information, Principles, Needs

  Alfréd Rényi (1984). “A diary on information theory”

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• It should be obvious that this pattern of systematic holes and gaps in Iraq's declaration is not the result of accidents, editing oversights or technical mistakes. These are material omissions that - in our view - constitute another material breach. It is up to Iraq to prove that there is some other explanation besides the obvious one, that this declaration is just one more act of deception in a history of lies from a defiant dictator.

  John Negroponte

  Mistake, Lying, Editing

  "U.N. officials react to Blix briefing". www.cnn.com. December 19, 2002.

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• Only in the West did a philosophy develop that was not only no longer the love of wisdom but went so far as to deny the category of wisdom as a legitimate form of knowledge. The result was a hatred of wisdom that should more appropriately be called ‘misosophy’ (literarily hatred of Sophia, Wisdom) rather than philosophy.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Philosophy, Hatred, West

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr (1996). “Religion and the Order of Nature”, p.80, Oxford University Press

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• At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation.

  Igor Sikorsky

  Engineering, Pilots, Tests

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• But I believe there is a decay that is eroding America, and as a result, God begins to disappear from our society.

  Lee Greenwood

  Believe, America, Decay

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• China is innocent. China is ready to watch the investigation and to watch the possible results of that investigation.

  Li Zhaoxing

  Watches, Innocent, China

  "Congressman calls alleged Chinese spying 'grave'". www.cnn.com. May 16, 1999.

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• There are a significant number of people who appreciate what we do, and most of them gravitate to Analog because this is where they can find it. The other magazines tend to share their audiences, which may result in each of them having a smaller market share.

  Stanley Schmidt

  Numbers, People, Appreciate

  "Analog Editor Stanley Schmidt Finds the Future of Magazines to be Astounding". Interview with Michael A. Burstein, www.mabfan.com. July 23, 2001.

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• The experience of helping a fellow man in danger, or even of training in a realistic manner to be ready to give this help, tends to change the balance of power in a youth's inner life with the result that compassion can become the master motive.

  Kurt Hahn

  Men, Compassion, Giving

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