Strive Quotes - Page 14

• Knowing that a story needs to be told is a great motivator, even if telling a given story comes at a price. Writing Hunger has been the most difficult writing of my life, and it's the rawest and perhaps most necessary. We'll see how people take it. I always strive to write beyond personal catharsis because though I write first and foremost for myself, I do recognize that I need to look outward as much if not more than I look inward, so the reader has something with which they can engage.

  Roxane Gay

  Writing, People, Hunger

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• I think living in the West, we live in a culture where everybody strives for perfection, whether it's in body, health, spirit, skin, hair, nails. Perfect happiness would be a constant state of bliss, which doesn't exist. Growing up and going through the loss I went through, I never had a moment where I believed a constant state of bliss was possible. Instead, I tried to create many moments. But, I didn't know how to get there. Because of what I went through, I have a natural tendency towards darkness. Though it may be in my DNA as well.

  Loung Ung

  Growing Up, Loss, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We still have politicians who strive for a different type of country: Kaczynski as well as Orbán in Hungary. They want a gradual coup. If Orbán stayed in power in Hungary or if Kaczynski were to win an election in our country, it would be dangerous. Both men have an authoritarian idea of government; democracy is merely a façade.

  Adam Michnik

  Country, Winning, Men

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Nick Flynn is another writer I admire - his fragmented sections, his playfulness with genre, his urgency. The palette in his work is his style, a voice that is singular, and that's what I think writers should strive for, to have a style and a voice that is only theirs.

  Jill Talbot

  Thinking, Style, Admire

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• What I strive to do is make my characters seem like real people so that the reader experiences them as people - that's something I've been working on all of my life. I couldn't have written this novel at twenty or thirty, for technical reasons - I didn't have the technique then - but above all because I didn't have the life experiences I have now at sixty-seven.

  Jaume Cabre

  Real, Character, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Everywhere you go you find readers who are interested, even though the story takes place here in this very neighborhood. It doesn't matter that it takes place locally if the intention to make it universal is there. That's what I strive to do.

  Jaume Cabre

  Intention, Neighborhood

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You write for glory. You play for glory. There's an ambition to excel, isn't there, to be a star? To score more, to do more, even when it's a team sport. So I think striving for glory is a natural subject for a writer. Seeking fame.

  James Salter

  Sports, Team, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My priority is inclusion and justice. We need a system of justice that is applied across the board. That is what this country is striving for. We've suffered from a variety of exclusions. In the past, I compared our situation to a person with scissors who first cut the sleeve, then the fingers, then our body politic to pieces. My job is to stitch the wounds together. We need an agenda of inclusion: the youth, the women, the poor feel an enormous sense of exclusion.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Country, Cutting, Past

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I come from theater, originally, and I've worked in many theaters where you make no money, whatsoever. If you got 3,000 people to see your production, it was great. So, I'm always about the work and I always want to strive for making the best story possible. I don't get hung up on trying to compare myself.

  Roy Conli

  People, Trying, Compare

  Source: collider.com

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• We strive towards a better world, but one can never do it without compromise. We can all change the world for the better, starting in your own little surroundings, together with people who believe in it, too. This way you can make it work and show others that it actually can work. That doesn't mean that everybody has to do it like you "or else..." If there is no compromise possible, then it turns into extremism, and I don't think that extremism ever added something positive to the world.

  G.W. Sok

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

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• Results come from purpose because it is the outcome of what you striving to do. For example, if you run a cardiac care center your goal is best in class cardiac career. Your purpose is to help people leave more healthy lives. Communicating that outcome to all stakeholders physicians, nurses, support staff, etc. a clear goal.

  John Baldoni

  Running, Nurse, People

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• My books arose from my own experience, when I sought guidance in practical leadership in my career. In sum, I strive to write the kind of book that I would find valuable in my own life.

  James M Strock

  Book, Writing, Kind

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• One of my central philosophies is to be creatively driven so I have to be extraordinarily creative in the way I get things done and I have to be really flexible. Striving for the best creativity can be a really moving target if you're trying to budget anything because if you come up with a better idea for something and it's going to make the movie stronger then you have to do it. And that's what I do. The difficulty is that you have to use more judgement as a producer then you might in other places. I have to make unbelievably great creative decisions.

  Brad Lewis

  Philosophy, Moving, Creativity

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• Winning once is never anyone's dream. We all want to keep winning no matter what it is, or if we retire, we all still are striving toward something, probably most of us are.

  Venus Williams

  Dream, Winning, Retiring

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• A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.

  Alfred Adler

  Simple, Views, People

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• The important thing for the survival of the Thai society is that the majority of those who work, both in the government and the private sector, still strive to work in the same direction; this is why the Thai nation still stands.

  Bhumibol Adulyadej

  Government, Survival, Important

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• God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

  Aeschylus

  Love, God, Helping Others

  Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.419, Delphi Classics

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• It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.

  Aesop

  Life, Prayer, Fables

  Aesop (1913). “Æsop's fables: an anthology of the fabulists of all countries”, J. M. Dent & Sons, ltd.

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• But particularly when the media profess to strive toward objectivity, gatekeepers play a crucial role in helping people navigate the news to make educated political decisions.

  Eric Alterman

  Objectivity, Media, Play

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• I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, Hypnosis, Lasting Love

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• Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.

  Teresa of Avila

  Eye, Thinking, Giving

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• By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Taken, Men, Humanity

  Attributed to Mikhail Bakunin in Paolo Novaresio "The Explorers: From the Ancient World to the Present", October 1, 1996.

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• I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional and well adjusted and can face conflict in a non-emotional and non-destructive way, and those are the people I try to surround myself with in my life. But as characters, they bore me.

  Alan Ball

  Character, Emotional, People

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

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• The Lord is pleased with every effort, even the tiny, daily ones in which we strive to be more like Him.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Effort, Tiny, Lord

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.

  Jeff Bezos

  Amazon, Want, Online

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