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• The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place

  Paul Watzlawick

  Suicide, Doe, Conclusion

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• The simplest type of breakdown exhibits itself as an oscillation in a goal-seeking process which appears only when that process is actively invoked.

  Norbert Wiener

  Goal, Process, Type

  Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.163, Da Capo Press

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• I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader.

  Tony Abbott

  Successful, Thinking, Knowing

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

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• What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race.

  Amedeo Modigliani

  Real, Race, Mystery

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• So go marry someone, provided you're equally yoked and you actually like being with each other. Go get a job, provided it's not wicked. Go live somewhere in something with somebody or nobody. But put aside the passivity and the quest for complete fulfillment and the perfectionism and the preoccupation with the future, and for God's sake start making some decisions in your life. Don't wait for the liver-shiver. If you are seeking first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, you will be in God's will, so just go out and do something.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Jobs, Decision, Waiting

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• The challenge we now face is to build on the record of the past, to continue accepting new responsibilities and seeking new opportunities to serve.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Responsibility, Past, Opportunity

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• A detective with his murder mystery, a chemist seeking the structure of a new compound, use little of the formal and logical modes of reasoning. Through a series of intuitions, surmises, fancies, they stumble upon the right explanation, and have a knack of seizing it when it once comes within reach.

  Gilbert N. Lewis

  Murder Mysteries, Intuition, Littles

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• Transformation comes more from pursuing profound questions than seeking practical answers.

  Peter Block

  Healing, Profound, Answers

  Peter Block (2003). “The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters”, p.10, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• U Must Be What it is that youre Seeking - that is, U Need to Put Forth what U Want to Attract

  Wayne Dyer

  Needs, Want

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• Is it impossible to imagine Americans sneaking into Mexico en masse, seeking regular employment and a better way of life?

  Bill Hicks

  Employment, Mexico, Way

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• Socialists have always spent much of their time seeking new titles for their beliefs, because the old versions so quickly become outdated and discredited.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Titles, Belief, Outdated

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• Our pursuit of God is successful just because He is forever seeking to manifest Himself to us.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Faith, God, Christian

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1968). “The Pursuit of God”, p.89, Fig

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• We go forth all to seek America. And in the seeking we create her. In the quality of our search shall be the nature of the America that we created.

  Waldo Frank

  America, Quality

  Waldo David Frank (1919). “Our America”

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• Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Character, Men, Office

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• Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods. The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Prayer, Pyramids, Hatred

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• The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and to their foundation.

  Wilhelm Dilthey

  Reality, Historical, Foundation

  Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.56, Princeton University Press

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• The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.

  Steven Chu

  Atoms, Lasers, Intensity

  "Lasers Slow Atom for Scrutiny". The New York Times, July 13, 1986.

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• Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.

  Abbott Lawrence Lowell

  Happiness, Way, Pleasure

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• Thinking in terms of risk certainly has its unsettling aspects (...), but it is also a means of seeking to stabilise outcomes, a mode of colonising the future. The more or less constant, profound and rapid momentum of change characteristic of modern institutions, coupled with structured reflexivity, mean that on the level of everyday practice as well as philosophical [Seitenwechsel] interpretation, nothing can be taken for granted. What is acceptable/appropriate/recommended behaviour today may be seen differently tomorrow in the light of altered circumstances or incoming knowledge-claims.

  Anthony Giddens

  Philosophical, Taken, Mean

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• The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind. Such a man is not malleable; he may be mistaken, he may be fooled in a given instance, but he is inflexible in regard to the absolutism of reality, i.e., in seeking and demanding truth.

  Ayn Rand

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Men

  AYN RAND “THE NEW LEFT: THE ANTI-INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION”

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• There is no lack in the world. The lack is in you , and if you will stop seeking lack and stop thinking lack... you will make marvelous demonstrations.

  Al Koran

  Thinking, World, Abundance

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• Anyone in a state of seeking can never be happy. Only those who are constantly finding are fulfilled. And finding is not something that happens to us - it is something we do.

  Alan Cohen

  Action, States, Fulfilled

  "The Dragon Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Loving Fully, Living Freely". Book by Alan Cohen, 1993.

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• When you are at one with the world, you often find that the thing you seek is seeking you.

  Charles F. Haanel

  Law Of Attraction, World, Attraction

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• The prevailing attitude towards nature is that form of heresy which denies substance and, in doing so, denies the rightfulness of creation. We have said - to the point of repletion, perhaps - that man is not to take his patterns from nature; but neither is he to waste himself in seeking to change her face.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Attitude, Men, Substance

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences”, p.171, University of Chicago Press

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• The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

  Aristotle

  Sake, Wealth, Making Money

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1732, Princeton University Press

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