Spectacular Quotes - Page 5

• The discovery of God lies in the daily and the ordinary, not in the spectacular and the heroic. If we cannot find God in the routines of home and shop, then we will not find Him at all.

  Richard J. Foster

  Christian, Lying, Home

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• In business or in football, it takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to produce spectacular results.

  Roger Staubach

  Football, Preparation, Results

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• The outer eyes see only by reflection. The vibrationsfrom the inner eye, optic, is conveyed along the opticnerves and produced, spectacular, on the ether.

  George Carey

  Eye, Reflection

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• It's true, spectacular preparation always precedes spectacular performance.

  Zig Ziglar

  Preparation, Performances

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• The best way to create spectacular results in the most important areas of your life is through daily practice

  Robin Sharma

  Practice, Important, Way

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Oct 11, 2012

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• My character Jack in the New York Spring Spectacular is a lot of fun. He's playful, he's full of life. He can make things come to life. He can make things happen.

  Derek Hough

  New York, Fun, Spring

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• I've always been fascinated by the Gold Coast. The homes themselves are spectacular, unlike anything you'll see other than in Newport, Bar Harbor or Palm Beach. It's a very special area that, because of local demographics, is not going to survive much longer.

  Nelson DeMille

  Beach, Home, Gold

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• We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay at school.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  School, Population, Pay

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2010). “Education Automation: Comprehensive Learning for Emergent Humanity”, p.35, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• In the last 15 to 20 years the best central midfielder that I have seen — the most complete — is Scholes. I have spoken with Xabi Alonso about this many times. Scholes is a spectacular player who has everything. He can play the final pass, he can score, he is strong, he never gets knocked off the ball and he doesn’t give possession away. If he had been Spanish then maybe he would have been valued more.

  Xavi

  Strong, Player, Years

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• During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago

  Norman Borlaug

  Country, Past, Years

  Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”

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• Leo Messi is a spectacular player, there is nobody else like him. I should not because I have suffered so much in training. I think he is the best forward at the moment and I think he will be so for many more years. He has his feet on the ground.

  Carles Puyol

  Player, Thinking, Years

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• Well, once you get the groove of your life and you sort out the aspects of your life that you prefer, and you’ve performed all your responsibilities as a father and as a partner. And just discovery and the great adventure of having eyes wide open. There’s so much of this beautiful planet that is still actually spectacular and stimulating. There are so many amazing people that you meet along the way. By using my career as the wind in the sails of my adventures, I could see so many things and so many people that I might have missed had my career gone a different direction.

  Robert Plant

  Beautiful, Father, Adventure

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Goodbye, I say, goodbye, as I disappear little by little into the middle of the middle of my own spectacular now

  Tim Tharp

  Goodbye, Littles, Disappear

  Tim Tharp (2014). “The Spectacular Now”, p.230, Scholastic UK

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• Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.

  Joseph Campbell

  Motivational, Pain, Suffering

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• It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Inspirational, Men, Transformed

  Henrik Ibsen (2014). “Ibsen Plays: 5: Brand; Emperor and Galilean”, p.52, A&C Black

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• The spectacular sparkle of set-apart femininity is found through absolute abandonment to the Author of all true beauty.

  Leslie Ludy

  True Beauty, Sparkle, Abandonment

  Leslie Ludy (2008). “Set-Apart Femininity: God's Sacred Intent for Every Young Woman”, p.19, Harvest House Publishers

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• The most spectacular thing about Johnny [von Neumann] was not his power as a mathematician, which was great, or his insight and his clarity, but his rapidity; he was very, very fast. And like the modern computer, which no longer bothers to retrieve the logarithm of 11 from its memory (but, instead, computes the logarithm of 11 each time it is needed), Johnny didn't bother to remember things. He computed them. You asked him a question, and if he didn't know the answer, he thought for three seconds and would produce and answer.

  Paul Halmos

  Memories, Science, Thinking

  "PAUL HALMOS Celebrating 50 Years of Mathematics: Celebrating 50 Years of Mathematics".

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• Cassini is different -- it's a mission of enormous scope and is being conducted in grand style. It is much more sophisticated than Voyager, ... I can't say it's got that flavor of romance, though. Voyager was very romantic. Cassini is spectacular.

  Carolyn Porco

  Romance, Style, Different

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• There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Men, Doctors, Medicine

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2009). “Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure”, p.54, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Spring, Self, Initiative

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• Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Mean, Behavior, Synergy

  What I Have Learned "How Little I Know" (1968)

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• I wouldn't say Musashi is ordinary. But he is. That's what's extraordinary about him. He is not content to rely on whatever natural gifts he may have. Knowing he is ordinary, he is constantly trying to improve himself. No one appreciates the agonizing effort he's had to make. Now that his years of training have yielded such spectacular results, everybody's talking about his 'God-given talent.' That's how men who don't try very hard comfort themselves.

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  Men, Talking, Years

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• The theology of the hammer embraces wholeheartedly the idea that the love of God and love of man must be blended. The word and the deed must come together. One without the other is devoid of meaning … As the deed gets closer to the word, God gets closer to us. The results are always wonderful — and sometimes spectacular!

  Millard Fuller

  Men, Ideas, Together

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• I go every year to the Huvafen Fushi in the Maldives and it's spectacular.

  Brigitte Nielsen

  Years, Maldives

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• Why don't I just step out and slip into something more spectacular?

  Liberace

  Steps, Slips

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