Roots Quotes - Page 34

• Without ambition no conquests are made, and no business created. Ambition is the root of all achievement.

  James A. Champy

  Graduation, Ambition, Achievement

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• So we took out those 3 root canals when she had 3-6 months to live. And that was 6 years ago, and she is still alive today, and MRI can't find the tumour anymore. It went away.

  Hal Huggins

  Cancer, Years, Today

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• You don't need to condemn. Just observe, That is sin. That is insanity. That is unconsciousness. Above all, don't forget to observe your own mind. Seek out the root of the insanity there.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Insanity, Mind, Needs

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.110, New World Library

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• We must alert and organise the world's people to pressure world leaders to take specific steps to solve the two root causes of our environmental crises - exploding population growth and wasteful consumption of irreplaceable resources. Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Population Problem, Two, People

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• I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.

  Jackson Browne

  Sunday, Nuclear Disarmament, Play

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• The word relationship is beautiful. The original meaning of the root from which the word to relate comes is exactly the same as to respond. Relationship comes from that word respond. If you have any image of your wife or husband, you cannot respond, and hence relate, to the truth of the person. And we all go on carrying images.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Beautiful, Husband

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• I feel like I'm a fighter. I've fought my whole life to get to where I'm at. I like fight movies. When someone gets knocked down, I like to root for him to succeed.

  Ricky Schroder

  Fighting, Succeed, Fighter

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• "The root of joy is gratefulness."

  David Steindl-Rast

  Gratitude, Joy, Gratefulness

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• In spite of my great admiration for individual splendid talents I do not accept the star system. Collective creative effort is the root of our kind of art. That requires ensemble acting and whoever mars that ensemble is committing a crime not only against his comrades but also against the very art of which he is the servant.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Art, Stars, Effort

  Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “Building a Character”, p.220, A&C Black

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• We should embrace our immigrant roots and recognize that newcomers to our land are not part of the problem, they are part of the solution.

  Roger Mahony

  Land, Problem, Embrace

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• The revolt of the poet is invariably conservative at its roots. … Not politically conservative, but imaginatively conservative, with a profound regard for what is given, as earth or air, sun or moon or stars, or the dreams of man.

  Cid Corman

  Dream, Stars, Moon

  Cid Corman (1975). “The Gist of Origin, 1951-1971: an anthology”

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• I hunt everywhere for a life worth living and a knowledge worth knowing. Having roots nowhere, I have everywhere to go.

  Elif Safak

  Knowing, Life Worth Living, Hunts

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• Don't put down too many roots in terms of a domicile. I have lived in four countries and I think my life as a writer and our family's life have been enriched by this. I think a writer has to experience new environments. There is that adage: No man can really succeed if he doesn't move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for the writer.

  Arthur Hailey

  Country, Believe, Moving

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• A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following

  Duncan Sheik

  Real, Play, Stuff

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• What I've found is that country doesn't refer to where you grew up as much as where your heart grows down, where it takes root. Country is a state of mind. I believe what ultimately defines being country is simple: a loving heart, a helping hand, an open mind, poor in spirit.

  Clay Walker

  Country, Believe, Heart

  Clay Walker (2013). “Jesus Was a Country Boy: Life Lessons on Faith, Fishing, and Forgiveness”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Do you know, that is the root of the whole trouble - has been one of the roots at any rate - is people hearing things and then imagining some more and magnifying it and multiplying it.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Hearing Things, People, Trouble

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• Refusal to accept the flow of the world is the root of all misery.

  Devdutt Pattanaik

  Holy Prophet, World, Flow

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• The root of humanly caused evil is not man's animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain self-esteem, deny our mortality, and achieve a heroic self-image. Our desire for the best is the cause of the worst.

  Sam Keen

  Self Esteem, Animal, Men

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• We have our roots in country, and that's our foundation, but we pull from a lot.

  Dave Haywood

  Country, Foundation

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• Metaphor is our mental root of imagination and language. Arnold Kozak offers fertile metaphors for growing your knowledge of the Buddhadharma. If you contemplate these brief stories, your emotional intelligence and mindfulness will develop effortlessly from the insights they provide.

  Polly Young-Eisendrath

  Emotional, Imagination, Mindfulness

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• Creativity belongs to the artist in each of us. To create means to relate. The root meaning of the word art is 'to fit together' and we all do this every day.

  Corita Kent

  Art, Creativity, Mean

  Corita Kent, Jan Steward (2008). “Learning by Heart: Teachings to Free the Creative Spirit”, p.28, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The true penance comes when God takes away the soul's health and strength for doing penance. Even though I have mentioned elsewhere the great pain this lack causes, the pain is much more intense here. All these things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.

  Teresa of Avila

  All Things

  "The Interior Castle".

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• We are all born as animals and live the life that animals live: we sleep, eat, reproduce, and fight. There is, however, another order of living, which the animals do not know, that of awe before the mystery of being ... that can be the root and branch of the spiritual sense of one’s days. That is the birth - the Virgin Birth - in the heart of a properly human, spiritual life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Spiritual, Live Life, Heart

  Joseph Campbell (2010). “Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.45, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Where there is no fruit, there may be no root.

  Sam Storms

  May, Fruit

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• Anti-Semitism is nothing but the antagonistic attitude produced in the non-Jew by the Jewish group. This is a normal social reaction. The Jewish group has thrived on oppression and on the antagonism it has forever met in the world... the root cause is their use of enemies they create in order to keep solidarity.

  Albert Einstein

  Attitude, Order, Forever

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