Undertakings Quotes - Page 5

• I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Imagination, Lag, Ruthlessness

  "Capitalism has learned to create host organisms". www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2011.

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• Frontline' does 10 news shows a year, so one a week is quite an undertaking.

  Bill Kurtis

  Years, Doe, News

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• If you can keep on trying after three failures in a given undertaking you may consider yourself a 'suspect' as a potential leader in your chosen occupation. If you can keep on trying after a dozen failures the seed of a genius is germinating within your soul.

  Napoleon Hill

  Leader, Soul, Trying

  Napoleon Hill (2011). “You Can Work Your Own Miracles”, p.90, Ballantine Books

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• Who should listen to discussions of theology? Those for whom it is a serious undertaking, not just another subject like any other for entertaining small-talk, after the races, the theater, songs, food, and sex: for there are people who count chatter on theology and clever deployment of arguments as one of their amusements.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Song, Sex

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• Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.

  Arnold Bennett

  Littles, Too Much, Human Nature

  Arnold Bennett (2015). “How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: Human Understanding”, p.6, 谷月社

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• Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in the general concerns of the world.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  World, May, Concern

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• The search for God is indeed, an entirely personal undertaking.... the most audacious adventure that one can dare.

  Alexis Carrel

  Adventure, Dare, Audacious

  Alexis Carrel (1939). “Man the Unknown”

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• The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings of our lives.

  Helen Mirren

  Understanding, Important, Our Lives

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• Study is to study what cannot be studied. Undertaking means undertaking what cannot be undertaken. Philosophizing is to philosophize about what cannot be philosophized about. Knowing that knowing is unknowable is true perfection.

  Zhuangzi

  Knowledge, Mean, Knowing

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• You are engaged in an undertaking of major importance to you. To be sure of success, you must have plans which are faultless.

  Napoleon Hill

  Importance, Plans, Engaged

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, James Breckenridge Jones, Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and Grow Rich, Updated and Complete - With If You Can Count to Four...”, p.100, Lulu.com

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• My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.

  Peter Paul Rubens

  Courage, Size, Talent

  Peter Paul Rubens, Toledo Museum of Art (1991). “The Crowning of Saint Catherine: Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish, 1577-1640”

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• The entire American media apparatus bought into the drug war - which is an enormously damaging and costly undertaking for this country - and there wasn't enough critical reporting about it and that's why it's gotten out of hand.

  David Talbot

  Country, War, Media

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• I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordinary spectacle. I was incredibly green and had no idea what an undertaking it is. I also have a new respect for models because they are so close to the front row and must be so self-conscious.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Fashion, Self, Ideas

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• My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.

  Simon Newcomb

  Psychology, Way, Fields

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.

  Dorothea Lange

  Photography, Unattainable, Photographer

  Anne Whiston Spirn, Dorothea Lange (2009). “Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field”, University Of Chicago Press

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• If, before undertaking some action, you must obtain the permission of society-you are not free, whether such permission is granted to you or not. Only a slave acts on permission. A permission is not a right.

  Ayn Rand

  Action, Slave, Granted

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.228, Penguin

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• In the socialist commonwealth every economic change becomes an undertaking whose success can be neither appraised in advance nor later retrospectively determined. There is only groping in the dark. Socialism is the abolition of rational economy.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Dark, Determined, Socialism

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Economic Calculation In the Socialist Commonwealth”, p.22, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.

  Publilius Syrus

  Please, Hard

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 675, 1856.

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• Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat.

  Napoleon Hill

  Cutting, Winning, Ships

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.34, Penguin

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• Survey and test a prospective action before undertaking it. Before you proceed, step back and look at the big picture, lest you act rashly on raw impulse.

  Epictetus

  Life, Steps, Looks

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• The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.

  John Galsworthy

  Writing, Bridges, House

  John Galsworthy (2015). “The Forsyte Saga Complete Edition: The Forsyte Saga + A Modern Comedy + End of the Chapter + On Forsyte ‘Change (A Prequel to Forsyte Saga): Complete Nine Novels”, p.2228, e-artnow

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• In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us.

  Wesley Morris

  Patience, Perception, Youth

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• If he did not succeed, he at least failed in a glorious undertaking.

  Ovid

  Success, Succeed, Glorious

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• For life affords no higher pleasure, than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. He that labours in any great or laudable undertaking, has his fatigues first supported by hope, and afterwards rewarded by joy... To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Motivational, Joy, Wish

  "The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler".

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• But what most astonishes me in the United States, is not so much the marvelous grandeur of some undertakings, as the innumerable multitude of small ones.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  America, United States, Multitudes

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1840). “Democracy in America”, p.157

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