Spurs Quotes - Page 7

• In Among the White Moon Faces, I wrote about my desire to be a writer as rooted in my obsessive hours of reading English novels and poetry. It was that spur, that desire, that pushed me to set aside love and marriage in my early twenties.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Reading, Moon, White

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• The Night Journal received two awards that I'm terribly proud of - -the Spur from Western Writers of America, and the Willa Literary Award from Women Writing the West. Both these groups are filled with great writers and good people.

  Elizabeth Crook

  Writing, Night, Two

  Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com

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• In my view, the state should be active and work in cooperation with private businesses to spur growth that's sustainable and inclusive. The policy process is about co-creating and co-shaping of markets, creating new opportunities for business investment - and negotiating a better deal for the public too.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Opportunity, Views, Creating

  Source: www.salon.com

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• When the economy is still struggling, putting people back to work, finding ways to spur economic activity, ultimately can help to reduce the structural deficits and debts that countries experience.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Struggle, People

  Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece in Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 15, 2016.

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• You often feel like you are on a high wire with no net productions because you have to rely on spontaneity and come up with ideas on the spur of the moment - and then what happens is that there is electricity to it that gets caught.

  Nicolas Cage

  Ideas, Wire, Spur Of The Moment

  "National Treasure: Book of Secrets - Nicolas Cage interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Fight, gentlemen of England! fight, bold yeomen!
  Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head!
  Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood;
  Amaze the welkin with your broken staves!

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, War, Archer

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Isaac Reed (1801). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: Henry VI, pts. II-III. Dissertation, &c. Richard III”, p.487

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• I probably prefer Spanish football to the others. It's very technical, the way they play; they keep the ball well, and whenever Spurs have played against Spanish teams in the past, they've always made it difficult for us.

  Gareth Bale

  Football, Team, Past

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• The presidency is the most visible thread that runs through the tapestry of the American government. More often than not, for good or for ill, it sets the tone for the other branches and spurs the expectations of the people.

  Mike Pence

  Running, Government, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Spurs are up against one of the top coaches in the world if not one of the best in the world

  Aidy Boothroyd

  World, Coaches, Ifs

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• Sometimes the best decisions in life are on the spur of the moment. So I generally try to do what I think is right. And sometimes I make mistakes.

  David Rubenstein

  Mistake, Thinking, Decision

  "All-American" with Morley Safer, www.cbsnews.com. May 3, 2015.

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• I have always had the deepest respect for Bill Nicholson as a person and as a manager. The Spurs boss is an honest Yorkshireman and you will go a long way before finding a straighter character than that. Bill has never wavered in his determination to give White Hart Lane fans the best.

  Bill Shankly

  Determination, Character, White

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• Private sector development and the creation of small businesses spur investment, jobs, opportunity, and hope. It empowers the market to meet local needs, whether for food, basic goods, or services.

  Robert Zoellick

  Jobs, Opportunity, Empowering

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• With 1.7 million private sector jobs lost and half a million jobs shipped overseas over the past three years, we must take action to spur job creation and restore economic prosperity.

  Nick Lampson

  Jobs, Past, Years

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• Anytime I have an idea, I'll make sure that I put it down so that when we do sit down to write an album, I don't have to dream it all out of thin air. I don't have to be creative on the spur of the moment, or spontaneously artistic. I just take advantage of whenever creativity strikes.

  Neil Peart

  Dream, Writing, Creativity

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

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• People say the most stupid things on the spur of the moment that they then have to retract.

  Michael Palin

  Stupid, People, Spur Of The Moment

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• Necessity is the spur of genius.

  Honore de Balzac

  Genius

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• Raising children is a spur-of-the-moment, seat-of-the-pants sort of deal, as any parent knows, particularly after an adult child says that his most searing memory consists of an offhand comment in the car on the way to second grade that the parent cannot even dimly recall.

  Anna Quindlen

  Memories, Children, Car

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• The Red Cross in its nature, it aims and purposes, and consequently, its methods, is unlike any other organization in the country.It is an organization of physical action, of instantaneous action, at the spur of the moment; it cannot await the ordinary deliberation of organized bodies if it would be of use to suffering humanity,[ellipsis in original] it has by its nature a field of its own.

  Clara Barton

  Country, Organization, Humanity

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• Indeed, to spur your Baal to action, I will taunt and challenge you ... to create as much as a single frog in the name and by the power of free choice, though the heathen and ungodly magicians in Egypt were able to create many.... I will not set you the heavy task of creating lice, which they could not produce either

  Martin Luther

  Egypt, Names, Creating

  Martin Luther, Desiderius Erasmus, Ernest Gordon Rupp, Philip Saville Watson (1969). “Luther and Erasmus: Free will and salvation”, Westminster John Knox Press

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• My education was a huge influence. I trained at the Lee Strasberg Institute at Tisch, which is a huge foundation for young actors. They teach you their methods, and give you the sense that acting is much more tangible than most people think. I think there's a mysticism of what acting is, in the fact that it's this ungraspable, spur-of-the-moment thing that nobody can understand.

  Roberto Aguire

  Thinking, Giving, People

  "Interview: Roberto Aguire Talks Boulevard (Exclusive)". Interview with Karen Benardello, www.shockya.com. August 4, 2015.

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• Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Victory, Way, Anticipation

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• As a rule, he fights well who has wrongs to redress; but vastly better fights he who, with wrongs as a spur, has also steadily before him a glorious result in prospect--a result in which he can discern balm for wounds, compensation for valor, remembrance and gratitude in the event of death.

  Lew Wallace

  Gratitude, Fighting, Remembrance

  Lew Wallace (2010). “Ben-Hur: A Story of the Christ”, p.274, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Our new election system will spur on all institutions and organizations and will force them to improve their work.

  Joseph Stalin

  Organization, Election, Force

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• We all have to learn to live with our losses, and to use our regrets to spur us on in the future.

  John Christopher

  Regret, Loss, Use

  John Christopher (2013). “The Pool of Fire”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.

  Anna Brackett

  Spring, Real, Exercise

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