Strive Quotes - Page 13

• For me, I don't really feel like I have any particular main influences or artists that I pull from; it's more of an underlying effect of such a big range of music that I love and I identify with - and all of that plays into what I do in minimal ways. I just really try to make music that reflects my identify, which is hard to pin down and is a lot of different things. I strive to make music that is hard to describe and meshes a lot of different genres, with the vocals being the thing that ties it all together.

  Tei Shi

  Artist, Trying, Together

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• In this cultural moment, many of us are feeling inadequate to solve societal problems - fascism, racism, misogyny, homophobia, anti-Semitism, the list goes on - and are unsure of how individuals can affect real change. We don't know what effect we will have on the current political climate as we strive to effect change. All large historical decision draw from a sea of smaller decisions. One never knows what will make the difference in the long run.

  Sabina Murray

  Running, Real, Long

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Sciences have the view of looking at the world as individual pieces and this has been going on now for about 300 years. Then we have the Darwinian myths that life is a struggle to survive. However all life is not about competition but about striving for wholeness. When we compete we are weak, and when we work together we are strong. My hope is that this will become common knowledge someday because this will transcend religion as we know it. We just need to start focusing on the commonalities of religion.

  Lynne McTaggart

  Strong, Struggle, Competition

  Lotus Guide Interview, lotusguide.com. May 20, 2012.

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• Startups think globally so as minister for digital affairs and innovation I do so too and strive to show the entire world how strong French tech is.

  Axelle Lemaire

  Strong, Thinking, Innovation

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• I believe that to create real-seeming characters, the writer must be willing to go on a voyage of self-exploration. It can be revealing and even painful to explore your own weakness, but it gives you genuine emotion. Characters in fiction come alive because of the believability of their emotional lives and that is what I strive to create.

  Sara Paretsky

  Believe, Character, Emotional

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• Can we come to the point where we can accept the impossible strivings that we have, the utter inability to ever fulfill our narcissistic megalomania, and then go on to live our lives and accept our disturbing thoughts? We need to accept our vulnerabilities and have love for our imperfections. If you can want what you have, I think you're on your way.

  Francis Levy

  Thinking, Imperfection, Narcissistic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that a lot of the time I don't go for something in particular. I see what comes to me, I filter it out. I never really strive to play a particular character or do a particular genre of film. As long as it's a good script and a great range of people and my character is really interesting I can't see any reason not to do it.

  Asa Butterfield

  Character, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Already, new forms of short-term and long-term rental housing are popping up in some metro areas. You can take on a house or apartment for a few months or even a year or two in developments that are striving to provide critical elements of community - schools, healthcare, social and cultural institutions - even for people who are living there only temporarily. People invested in a home, mortgage, or community are less likely to move to more economically vibrant locales. That kind of entrenchment is going to be an impediment to the coming spatial fix.

  Richard Florida

  Moving, Home, School

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• You're always going to have dangerous, disaffected people in any society, and some will be violent. Increasing prosperity and reducing inequality won't solve that completely. But having big, positive dreams and a society that makes it possible to achieve those dreams is what we must strive for.

  Garry Kasparov

  Dream, People, Prosperity

  "Garry Kasparov on Russia, chess, and the great gambit of AI". Interview With Alexander Bisley, www.macleans.ca. May 1, 2017.

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• Compassion is very important, especially right now in America. We all need to strive as human beings to understand each other and ourselves better.

  Kyra Sedgwick

  Compassion, Important

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Not only are we not using any programmed loops or computers onstage, we're also improvising with our instruments. We're playing our instruments probably more so than most people that I see play their instruments. I think we all sort of strive for that - we all want magical things to happen onstage. We don't say "mistakes" in this band, we call them "highlights."

  Brendan Benson

  Mistake, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you're stuck in a rut doing the same thing over and over again, what are you actually, really achieving? I'm someone who strives for success, for self-growth and new experiences, and to make a record that pushes me out of my comfort zone is something that's really exciting. It means you're making new decisions, you're making bold decisions, you're being scared, and you're getting through that - hopefully making something you're proud of, or being in a better position that makes you feel stronger as a human being.

  Marika Hackman

  Mean, Decision, Stronger

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Each time I have the urge in me to make a statement or send a message or to issue a manifesto, I don't bother to write a novel. I write an article and publish it in a popular newspaper, or I make a television appearance. I would not waste five years of my life in order to send to the Israeli readers a simple message such as, "Let us change a policy or stop the settlements," Or, "Let us strive for peace." This is not what it is about.

  Amos Oz

  Writing, Simple, Appearance

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• I think fashion today is horrible. Just open your eyes and look! What's good about it? There's no originality. Here and there, there is, but in general, en masse, there's very little creativity and very little originality. It's kind of boring. Everybody looks alike. Everybody seems to strive to look alike.

  Iris Apfel

  Fashion, Eye, Creativity

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Real spiritual journey in life is the discovery of self. I think once you take all the religious bullshit away from Jesus Christ, it's saying it's about this journey of discovering who you are, and what's really important in life is simply love. That the journey of civilization, the journey of understanding, is forgiveness, is empathy. And that's what humanity is striving for.

  Matthew Modine

  Spiritual, Religious, Jesus

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In my next life, I plan to be a more respectable creature. For now, this is what is given to us. So I don't know - I think we're all freaks at heart. I think some people strive desperately to be normal, and I think other people strive to be abnormal.

  Katherine Dunn

  Heart, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Sometimes people go off in a slightly different direction of wanting to be different, of wanting to be special, of wanting to be more, and I think that those people are often - not always, but often - genuinely different in some way. Perhaps their gender orientation is not acceptable or popular, not the norm. Or, their physical design is literally, in some way, setting them apart. Or, in many cases, they feel the burden of their ordinariness so dreadfully that they strive to find some way of being unique. I think that can be a very positive thing, but it also can be negative, destructive.

  Katherine Dunn

  Unique, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You're always striving for a place of Zen. Or a flow state, where you kind of transcend reality and you go to the other place. It's when everything is in sync, and everyone is connecting with one another. Everything is going perfectly. You lose yourself. It's the ultimate form of meditation where it's an out - of - body experience. Afterward you come back to Earth and you're like, 'What just happened? We just did something awesome!' It's this energy in the room when you know you're nailing it and you know everyone else is feeling it too. That's why theater is so awesome.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Reality, Meditation, Feelings

  Source: www.elle.com

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• A lot of musicians are super - insecure and they take forever and they obsess over the minutia and it's really stifling. It's not that the band The Black Keys is that confident, it's that we're not striving for perfection. We are just trying to have fun. None of the music that we like is perfect. It's good. And real. We just want to make real records, flaws and all.

  Dan Auerbach

  Fun, Real, Insecure

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Success for me is to feel happy - 80 percent of the time. That's been my goal in life. I think that comes from my father. He's a very optimistic, happy person. I'm not quite sure if I'll ever feel this, but I want to know how to be happy. I'm happy when I'm at work. I'm happy when I'm with my family or my dog. But there's always that feeling of, I'm not satisfied. I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale.

  January Jones

  Dog, Father, Optimistic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Faith is what I live by in everything that I do. I strive to give glory to God in every aspect of my life, even my films.

  Kel Mitchell

  Giving, Film, Glory

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Beyoncé says it was Mathew Knowles, her father, who made her understand discipline and work ethic, what it means to come in early before class starts to stretch, or to work on your dégagés or your pirouettes or whatever it was. I was a turner! So to come in early and then to stay afterward and to just soak up everything that the teacher has, that's really what it's about - the striving for excellence.

  Laverne Cox

  Teacher, Father, Mean

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Helmut Lang is an amazing man - always striving, always moving forward.

  Polly Allen Mellen

  Moving, Moving Forward, Men

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I did my friend's film - this guy Harrison Atkins who's a great filmmaker. He just makes movies with all his friends, and I think that's all what we're striving for - to feel like we're among friends and people who care about each other. I'd like to think that good work comes from that - from a sort of loving and friendly environment.

  Peter Vack

  Thinking, People, Guy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I just want to keep having the courage to raise the bar for myself, and to keep striving for excellence in artistic integrity and public service. And to continue to challenge myself to move outside of my comfort zone, personally and professionally.

  Kerry Washington

  Integrity, Moving, Challenges

  Source: aalbc.com

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