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• Winning Strategists are certain of triumph before seeking a challenge. Losing Strategists are certain to challenge before seeking a triumph.

  Sun Tzu

  Winning, Challenges, Triumph

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• The tempest was terrible and separated me from my [other] vessels that night, putting every one of them in desperate straits, with nothing to look forward to but death. Each was certain the others had been destroyed. What man ever born, not excepting Job, who would not have died of despair, when in such weather seeking safety for my son, my brother, shipmates, and myself, we were forbidden [access to] the land and the harbors which I, by God's will and sweating blood, had won for Spain?

  Christopher Columbus

  Brother, Jobs, Son

  Letter to the Sovereigns, Fourth Voyage, July 07, 1503.

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• Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: they heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Crush, Children, Order

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• The superior man honors his virtuous nature, and maintains constant inquiry and study, seeking to carry it out to its breadth and greatness, so as to omit none of the more exquisite and minute points which it embraces, and to raise it to its greatest height and brilliancy.

  Confucius

  Greatness, Men, Honor

  Confucius (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)”, p.2, Delphi Classics

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• Our current use of time is not rational. There is therefore no point in seeking marginal improvements in how we spend our time. We need to go back to the drawing board and overturn all our assumptions about time.

  Richard Koch

  Drawing, Boards, Needs

  Richard Koch (2011). “The 80/20 Principle”, p.132, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• Join the bold, the brazen, the unintimidated. Join not having excuses. Join the idea that fun is the source of all joy. Join the unwillingness to give up. Join doing things your way. Join not joining. Join that purpose is stronger than outcome. Join your gut. Join the constant challenge of seeking greatness. Join play. Join the hunger to find what makes you happy. Join karma and nature and the effect you have on your world. Join your philosophy. Join something bigger than you. Join what you believe.

  Bode Miller

  Karma, Giving Up, Fun

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• A temple, first of all, is a place of
  prayer; and prayer is communion with God. It is the 'infinite in man
  seeking the infinite in God.' Where they find each other, there is holy
  sanctuary--a temple.

  B. H. Roberts

  Prayer, Men, Temples

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• The fleeting hour of life of those who love the hills is quickly spent, but the hills are eternal. Always there will be the lonely ridge, the dancing beck, the silent forest; always there will be the exhilaration of the summits. These are for the seeking, and those who seek and find while there is still time will be blessed both in mind and body.

  Alfred Wainwright

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

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• Frustration is the by-product of attempting to fulfill responsibilities God does not intend for us to carry. Freedom, joy, and fruitfulness come from seeking to determine God’s priorities for each season of life, and then setting out to fulfill those priorities, in the power of His Spirit, realizing that He has provided the necessary time and abilities to do everything that He has called us to do.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Responsibility, Frustration, Joy

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2007). “Lies Women Believe: And the Truth that Sets Them Free”, p.120, Moody Publishers

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• I pay people very, very well - probably more than I have to. But that costs me less money in the long run because I'm not having to constantly train somebody. I pay them enough that they don't go seeking a higher scale at the next restaurant.

  Paula Deen

  Running, Long, People

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• Power is what spoils people. Yes, it seems to me that the seeking after power is the great danger and the great corruptor of mankind.

  Baldur von Schirach

  People, Danger, Mankind

  "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, p. 245 (To Leon Goldensohn, June 16, 1946), 2004.

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• THIS which is seeking is THAT which is sought,
  and THAT which is sought is THIS which is seeking.

  Wei Wu Wei

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• And thou who thinkest to seek for me, know thy seeking and yearning shall avail thee not, unless thou know this mystery: that if that which thou seekest thou findest not within thee, thou wilt never find it without thee

  Doreen Valiente

  Mystery, Thee, Yearning

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• Everything you are seeking is seeking you in return. Therefore,
  everything you want is already yours. So, you don't have to get anything.
  It is simply a matter of becoming more aware of what you already possess.

  Bob Proctor

  Want, Matter, Return

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• God is seeking those who hear His call to a life of worship. Those who heed are those who will walk in His presence. They will know Him intimately as He will manifest Himself to them.

  John Bevere

  Worship, Manifest, Walks

  John Bevere (2004). “Drawing Near: A Life of Intimacy with God”, p.119, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The 1970s was the decade of liberation, of anger at injustice and demands for recognition and rights. But over time, the demand for specific rights degraded into a generalized sense of entitlement, the demand for specific recognition into a generalized demand for attention and the anger at specific injustice into a generalized feeling of grievance and resentment. The result is a culture of entitlement, attention-seeking and complaint.

  Michael Foley

  Rights, Feelings, Culture

  Michael Foley (2010). “The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too old to enjoy life.

  Jimmy Sangster

  Enjoy Life, Too Much, Rooms

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• Look to see who is truly serving the world, truly seeking to share wisdom and knowledge, insight and understanding, caring and compassion. Provide for these people, for these are the Bringers of the Light.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Caring, Compassion, Light

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Nov 22, 2016

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• I'm a common woman sharing common problems seeking common solutions on a journey with an uncommon Savior.

  Beth Moore

  Journey, Common, Problem

  Beth Moore (2010). “So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us”, p.13, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and encourage others to do so as well, seeking to free ourselves from constraints imposed by coercive institutions, dogma, irrationality, excessive conformity and lack of initiative and imagination, and numerous other obstacles.

  Noam Chomsky

  Imagination, Obstacles, Conformity

  "On Responsibility, War Guilt and Intellectuals". Interview with Gabriel Matthew Schivone, chomsky.info. August 3, 2007.

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• Seeking happiness in material things is a sure way of being unhappy.

  Pope Francis

  Unhappy, Way, Seeking Happiness

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• God is always seeking you. Every sunset. Every clear blue sky. Each ocean wave. The starry hosts of night. He blankets each new day with the invitation, ‘I am here.’

  Louie Giglio

  Ocean, Sunset, Night

  Louie Giglio, Stuart Hall (2011). “Wired: For a Life of Worship Leader's Guide”, p.31, Multnomah

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• It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found - in loving obedience.

  George Eliot

  Work, Blessing, Sake

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.405

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• In order for this struggle to have meaning, the oppressed must not, in seeking to regain their humanity (which is a way to create it), become in turn oppressors of the oppressors, but rather restorers of the humanity of both

  Paulo Freire

  Struggle, Order, Humanity

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.44, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• What you're seeking is seeking you.

  Rumi

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