U Quotes
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“Ultimately, who you are as a person will define who you are as a professional.”
Source: Amazed: A Girl’s Infinite Pursuit to Grasp the Essence of Humanity in Writing
“Ultimately, why we birth the way we do transcends the boundaries of our bones. Physiologic labor is a complex process involving, yes, bones, but also tissues, muscles, organs, cells, hormones, an exchange of signals between two people, mechanical changes, emotions. Bones are easier to see and study, so bone shape and size are what obstetricians, historians, and anthropologists have historically prioritized.”
Source: Birth Control: The Insidious Power of Men Over Motherhood
“Ultimately, with- out the membership team's systematic experimentation, Carnegie Museums would not have been able to build upon critical learnings over the years. Now, with a solid foundation and new technology in place, Carnegie Museums is ready to take on its next adventure... summer 2020.”
Source: Museum Membership Innovation
“Ultimately you are doing what you do for one of two reasons: to serve oneself or to serve God. There is enough time in every day to do God's work...in God's way.”
“Ultimately you can't repress individuality, even though you can try.”
“Ultimately you should follow advice not because someone tells you to, but because it was something that you already knew you should be doing.”
“Ultimately you understand there is order in the universe, even if there is no order in your immediate circumstances.”
“Ultimately you want to have the entire world's knowledge connected directly to your mind.”
“Ultimately you're trying to reach across and find some other person, some other human warmth. But it is, especially in written poetry, it is inscribed in a text and the text can't do that work by itself and you as a poet can only do your best.”
“Ultimately your job as an actor is to perform however you're being asked to perform and there's many different procedures as an actor that you're going to run into that you should be prepared for and be ready to go to work and do the best you can and give the director the best thing you can to hopefully give him things on that day that could be shot preserved and out into a canned, then when they go into the editing room that's where a movie's made.”
“Ultimately — or at the limit — in order to see a photograph well, it is best to look away or close your eyes. 'The necessary condition for an image is sight,'Janouch told Kafka; and Kafka smiled and replied: 'We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.”
“Ultimately, 'how's it going?' is the most futile and the most profound of questions. To answer it precisely, one would have to make a scrupulous inventory of one's psyche, considering each aspect in detail. No matter: we have to say 'fine' out of politeness and civility and change the subject, or else ruminate the question during our whole lives and reserve our reply for afterward.”
Source: Perpetual Euphoria: On the Duty to Be Happy
“Ultimately, a city is formed by its people and the women in Berkeley are just great. They are opinionated, they have ideas, they belong to boards, and they write letters to editors... really wonderful people.”
“Ultimately, a great thriller is a roller coaster ride. I like to think that's a promise I have never failed to keep, and one that I'd say has served my books well.”
“Ultimately, a more experienced director realizes that you've got to stop sometime and just move on. They're braver about that.”
“Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face NOTHING new under the sun.”
“Ultimately, all characters have some negative and positive energies. That's just how I see it. I didn't go out looking for negative characters; I went out looking for people who have a struggle and a fight to tackle. That's what interests me.”
“Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?”
Source: Hope Is a Decision: Selected Essays
“Ultimately, all I wanted was for players to feel like they were in the real world. I wanted them to be able to apply real world common sense to the problems confronting them, and I thought recreating real world locations would encourage that kind of thinking. There's also just a real power, a real thrill, when you fire up a game and see a place you've been or want to go, and then get to do all the stuff you WANT to do there but know you'll get arrested if you try! If that isn't the stuff of fantasy - far more than exploring some goofy dwarven mine or alien spaceship - I don't know what is!”
“Ultimately, all moments are really one, therefore now is an eternity.”
“Ultimately, all our complaints are directed against God.”
“Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.”
Source: Chapterhouse: Dune
“Ultimately, all thoughts are sponsored by love or fear. All thoughts, ideas, concepts, understandings, decisions, choices, and actions are based on these. And, in the end, there is really only one. Love. In truth, love is all there is.”
“Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.”
Source: A New Day: Robert F. Kennedy
“Ultimately, an aircraft owner does not want to have to deal with all the intricate details which are necessary for the business.”
“Ultimately, an audience wants to laugh. That's who they like, the comedian who makes them laugh.”
“Ultimately, any character you write - no matter how fantastic or alien - is an extension of yourself. When our characters reflect the truth of our souls and psyches, they become real and compelling. The wonderful paradox is that the characters then take on lives of their own, separate from their creators. That's where the magic comes in.”
“Ultimately, any type of discipline is flawed because it keeps the person who is being disciplined inept. As long as the experience is happening to you, while it is imposed on you, it is not your dream. When discipline is administered externally, the participant is dependent on the administrator of the discipline. When discipline is administered internally, the athlete becomes a victim of the structure of the discipline. Either way, only the discipline, not the dream, is being pursued.”
“Ultimately, application vendors are driven by volume, and volume is favored by the open approach Google is taking. There are so many manufacturers working so hard to distribute Android phones globally that whether you like [Android 4.0] or not, you will want to develop for that platform, and perhaps even first.”
“Ultimately, as individuals we each have to ask ourselves to be courageous and apply certain principles.”
“Ultimately, at the end of the day, you couldn't say you were better than the other person because you knew you had a secret. You knew you had cheated.”
“Ultimately, because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic.”
“Ultimately, being open and respectful towards each other is much more powerful as a way to diffuse hatred and anger than, you know, layering on, you know, big walls and oppressive policies.”
“Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.”
“Ultimately, broadcasters and advertisers have to change the way they do business or they run the risk of linear TV becoming obsolete.”
“Ultimately, censorship comes down to taste. What offends me may enlighten you. Do you want me deciding-based on my taste-what you should or should not be exposed to?”
Source: Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country
“Ultimately, China may use force to push for unification with Taiwan, a scenario we all must work to prevent.”
“Ultimately, clean lines have greater longevity, which women appreciate, and to which they can add their own personality”
“Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances.”
“Ultimately, each transnational firm strives for its own advantage, and is supported in that effort by the state power wherein it resides, or at least where its main shareholders are domiciled.”
“Ultimately, every great endeavor consists of many little steps.”
“Ultimately, everyone has to ask himself or herself how they're going to fail. We all do, you know, so let's get that out of the way. The choice isn't between success and failure; it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity.”
Source: Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time
“Ultimately, everyone is acting out of what they feel is the best choice. In a way, they're all trying to improve the world. And I think that those basic choices make the world a better place.”
“Ultimately, fear of failure generates a vicious circle that creates what is most feared. To break this cycle, you need to make peace with failure. It isn't enough to merely tolerate it; you need to appreciate the failure and use it.”
Source: Body Mind Mastery: Creating Success in Sport and Life
“Ultimately, for me, I had an underlying belief or fear that I'm not enough as I am. Sometimes I discover those kinds of thoughts still lurking in my subconscious, and the best thing I can do is show up anyway.”
“Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.”
“Ultimately, growth is essential for increasing a company's value.”
“Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them.”
Source: The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness
“Ultimately, health care fails the most basic test. It's not organized around the needs of the patient.”
“Ultimately, however, as the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter pointed out, a powerful bureaucratic class is in the same relation to commerce as was the scorpion in Aesop to the dog on whose back he crossed the river. They will destroy commerce and establish socialism, even if it kills them, because that is their nature.”