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“Humility is constant forgetfulness of one's achievements.”

Humility Achievement Constant Forgetfulness

Author:John Climacus

“Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.”

Water Conditions Shapes Constant Warfare Art Of War Strategist

Book:Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text

Source: Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text

“We are living in a state of constant scientific revolution. There is not a single area that you can name that is now seen as it was seen a hundred years ago. Nothing is left of the world view of one hundred years ago.”

World Years States Names Left Views Revolution Hundred Areas Years Ago Constant World View Scientific Revolution

Author:Terence McKenna

“The constant need to move on, and to document progress, in normal schools means that education tends to be cut up into bite sized task.”

Needs Mean School Moving Cutting Progress Normal Tasks Constant Bites Documents Need To Move On

Book:Wise Up

Source: Wise Up

“While our institutional mission and destiny are not in doubt, how we each participate and understand our individual responsibilities requires constant attention, effort, and vigilance. BYU will progress and prosper, but our individual success is not guaranteed without our own personal best efforts and worthily received blessings.”

Individual Effort Attention Responsibility Destiny Doubt Progress Blessing Constant Missions Vigilance Best Effort Individual Responsibility Byu Personal Best Individual Success

Author:Cecil O. Samuelson

“Keep in mind how fast things pass by and are gone - those that are now, and those to come. Existence flows past us like a river; the "what" is in constant flux, the "why" has a thousand variations. Nothing is stable, not even what's right here. The infinity of past and future gapes before us - a chasm whose depths we cannot see.”

Mind Past Existence Gone Thousand Flow Rivers Constant Depth Infinity Stable Variation Flux Chasms

Book:Meditations: A New Translation

Source: Meditations: A New Translation

“There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is ready and predisposed to receive them. There may be a million microbes of misery floating about us. Never mind! They dare not approach us, they have no power to get a hold on us, until the mind is weakened. This is the great fact: strength is life. Weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal. Weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death”

Source: The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited

“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man. Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did, nor could the valet of any new made lord be more delighted with the place he held in society. He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy; and the Sir Walter Elliott, who united these gifts, was the constant object of his warmest respect and devotion.”

“What is realisation? Realisation is my conscious and constant sailing with my Inner Pilot in His Golden Boat towards the uncharted land, where sooner than at once beauty, divinity and Immortality seeds grow into the richest harvest.”

Grows Land Conscious Constant Seeds Golden Boat Immortality Divinity Pilots Harvest Sailing Realisation Uncharted

Author:Sri Chinmoy

“A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.”

Use Age Grows Tools Anger Constant Tongue Rage Birthday Temper 60th Birthday Tarts Sharp Tongue

Author:Washington Irving

“The third important ingredient for achieving peak performance is attitude. Attitude is how you deal with the inevitable adverse situations that occur in the markets. Attitude is also how you handle the daily grind, the constant 2 steps forward and 2 steps back.”

Important Deals Attitude Situation Steps Achieve Performances Thirds Constant Handle Inevitable Ingredients Grind Steps Forward Adverse Peak Performance Daily Grind

Author:Linda Bradford Raschke

“Whenever I think of how religion started, I picture some frustrated old man making out a list of all the ways he could gain power, until he finally came up with the great solution of constant fear and guilt, then he leaped up and started planning a new wardrobe.”

Thinking Men Way Solutions Gains Constant Guilt Lists Planning Old Man Frustrated Wardrobe

Author:Steve Blake

“These were the things that the government supplied you with - in turn, of course, demanding obedience. But you must not imagine that it was a constant feeling of outrage that was in the minds of people and the hearts of people.”

People Mind Heart Feelings Government Turns Courses Imagine Constant Obedience Imagine That Outrage

Author:Stefan Heym

“If my sense of security lies in my reputation or in the things I have, my life will be in a constant state of threat and jeopardy-a fear that these possessions may be lost, stolen, or devalued. If I'm in the presence of someone of greater net worth, fame, or status, I feel inferior. If I'm in the presence of someone of lesser net worth, fame or status, I feel superior. My sense of self-worth constantly fluctu-ates. I don't have any sense of constancy, anchorage, or persistent selfhood. I am constantly trying to protect and insure my assets, properties, securities, position, or reputation.”

“The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from hosts and myths.”

Country Constant Rewards Myth Host Confrontation Brutality Interrogation

Author:Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Whatever happens, my audience mustn't know whether I am spoofing or being serious; and likewise I mustn't know either. I am in a constant interrogation; when does the deep and philosophically valid Dali begin, and where does the looney and preposterous Dali end?”

Knows Doe Ends Happens Audience Serious Constant Whatever Happens Interrogation

Author:Salvador Dali

“It takes a constant effort of mind to avoid the abundance that life offers naturally.”

Mind Effort Offers Constant Abundance

Book:The Trick to Money is Having Some

Source: The Trick to Money is Having Some

“The quality of an idea does not depend on its altitude in the organization...An idea can be from any source. So we will search the globe for ideas. We will share what we know with others to get what they know. We have a constant quest to raise the bar, and we get there by constantly talking to others.”

Knows Doe Ideas Quality Talking Share Source Depends Organization Raises Constant Bars Quests Globes Raising The Bar

Author:Jack Welch

“Never risk more than 1% of total account equity on any one trade. By risking 1%, I am indifferent to any individual trade. Keeping your risk small and constant is absolutely critical.”

Individual Risk Accounts Trade Constant Critical Indifferent Equity

Author:Larry Hite

“Most of America's leading entrepreneurs are bound to the masts of their fortunes. They are allowed to keep their wealth only as long as they invest it in others. In a real sense, they can keep only what they give away. It has been given to others in the form of investments. It is embodied in a vast web of enterprises that retains its worth only through constant work and sacrifice. Capitalism is a system that begins not with taking but with giving to others.”

Giving Long Has Beens Real America Form Given Wealth Sacrifice Capitalism Constant Entrepreneur Fortune Investment Bounds Enterprise Giving To Others Masts

Author:George Gilder

“In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining.”

Thinking World War Policy Capacity Constant War Of The Worlds Second World War

Book:Power Systems: Conversations with David Barsamian on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire

Source: Power Systems: Conversations with David Barsamian on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire

“Slowly I began to realize that the bells and the confinement, the crazy sequences, the age-segregation, the lack of privacy, the constant surveillance, and all the rest of the national curriculum of schooling were designed exactly as if someone had set out to prevent children from learning how to think and act, to coax them into addiction and dependent behavior.”

Ifs Thinking Children Age Realizing Crazy Behavior Constant Addiction Dependent Privacy Bells Segregation Sequence Surveillance Schooling Curriculum Confinement

Book:Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

“There were moments ... when it seemed that all one could be asked was just to keep the ashtrays clean, the bed made, the wastebaskets emptied, as if one never got to the real things because of the constant exhausting battle to keep ordinary life from falling apart.”

Ifs Made Real Moments Fall Battle Bed Ordinary Constant Clean Falling Apart Real Things Exhausting Ordinary Life Ashtrays

Book:Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel

Source: Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel

“The burning bushes, the smoking mountains, . . . the Cumorahs, and the Kirtlands were realities; but they were the exceptions. . . . Always expecting the spectacular, many will miss entirely the constant flow of revealed communication.”

Reality Missing Communication Mountain Flow Constant Burning Smoking Exception Expecting Spectacular Burning Bush

Author:Spencer W. Kimball

“Time itself flows on with constant motion, just like a river: for no more than a river can the fleeting hour stand still. As wave is driven on by wave, and, itself pursued, pursues the one before, so the moments of time at once flee and follow, and are ever new.”

Stills Moments Hours Flow Rivers Constant Wave Driven Pursue Fleeting Pursued

Author:Ovid

“Let your constant practice be to offer yourself to God, that He may do with you what He pleases.”

May Practice Please Offers Constant

Author:Alphonsus Liguori

“Americans' liberty is perishing beneath the constant growth of government power. Federal, state and local government's are confiscating citizens' property, trampling their rights, and decimating their opportunities more than ever before.... American liberty can still be rescued from the encroachments of government. The first step to saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose unless fundamental political changes occur.”

“Your capability is constant, but how much of it you use depends upon the identity you have for yourself.”

Use Identity Depends Constant Capability

Book:Awaken The Giant Within

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“The attitude, 'You can win if you want to badly enough,' means that the will to win is constant. No amount of punishment, no amount of effort, no condition is too 'tough' to take in order to win. Such an attitude can be developed only if winning is closely tied to the practitioner's ideals and dreams.”

Ifs Want Mean Enough Dream Order Winning Effort Attitude Conditions Amount Tough Ideals Constant Punishment Tied You Can Win Will To Win

Book:Tao of Jeet Kune Do

Source: Tao of Jeet Kune Do

“I have nothing Of woman in me; now from head to foot I am marble-constant.”

Women Feet Constant Resolution Marble

Author:William Shakespeare

“Men emerge pale from the little printing plant at four sharp, ghosts for an instant, blinking, until the outdoor light overcomes the look of constant indoor light clinging to them.”

Men Looks Littles Light Four Overcoming Constant Plant Ghost Instant Pale Printing Clinging

Book:Rabbit Angstrom: a tetralogy

Source: Rabbit Angstrom: a tetralogy

“I'd much rather have AIDS than a baby... They're not that different at all. They're both expensive, you have them for the rest of your life, they're constant reminders of the mistakes you've made and once you have them, you pretty much can only date other people who have them.”

People Made Different Mistake Baby Constant Aids Expensive Reminders Rest Of Your Life Mistakes You've Made

Author:Donald Glover

“I think that the exactitude of the photograph has a sort of compelling nature based in its power to duplicate life. But to me the real power of photography is based in death: the fact that somehow it can enliven that which is not there in a kind of stultifying frightened way, because it seems to me that part of one's life is made up of a constant confrontation with one's own death.”

Thinking Way Kind Made Real Facts Seems Life Is Photography Constant Photograph Frightened Compelling Confrontation Real Power Duplicate Exactitude

Author:Barbara Kruger

“The dozens of people working on this at Digital Domain, they knew that you couldn't get away with almost photo real, because we had real real in the room. You have real real in the cut every four or five shots, so you have this constant yardstick built into the footage by virtue of there being no real robot there. So it became the standard of photo reality that the VFX team had to match.”

People Real Reality Rooms Virtue Five Four Cutting Team Standards Shots Built Constant Digital Get Away Dozen Robots Domain Yardsticks

Author:Shawn Anthony Levy

“... the constant flow of images undercuts the sense that there's actually something wrong with the world. How can there really be a shortage of whooping cranes when you've seen a thousand images of them - seen ten times more images than there are actually whooping cranes left in the wild?”

World Left Thousand Ten Flow Constant Shortage Cranes

Author:Bill McKibben

“Business model innovation is constant in this economy. You start with a vision of a platform. For a while, you think there's a line of sight, and then it's gone. There's suddenly a new angle.”

Thinking Lines Vision Economy Gone Models Sight Innovation Constant Platforms Angle Business Models

Author:Beth Comstock

“Here among the constant ruins and rebuilding of civilizations lies the coexistence of diversity and intolerance.”

Lying Civilization Diversity Constant Ruins Intolerance Rebuilding Coexistence

Book:Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land

Source: Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land

“The best part of living in constant terror is you always have a place to live.”

Constant Terror Places To Live

Author:Dana Gould

“I get some acting jobs. I like it other than the constant slipping in and out of character.”

Character Jobs Acting Constant Slipping

Author:Andy Kindler

“It's a constant battle between what your heart tells you, and what your brain tells you.”

Heart Brain Battle Constant

Author:Dat Phan

“I grew up in a mixed religious household. And it was volatile. My dad's atheist, my mom's agnostic. Just constant fighting. There's no God! There might be!”

Might Religion Fighting Religious Grew Mom Dad Grew Up Constant My Dad Atheist My Mom Household Agnostic

Author:Bonnie McFarlane

“One of my basic feelings is that the mind, and the heart alike, of the photographer must be dedicated to the glory, the magic, and the mystery of light. The mystery of time, the magic of light, the enigma of reality - and their interrelationships - are my constant themes and preoccupations.”

Mind Heart Feelings Reality Light Magic Mystery Glory Constant Photographer Theme Dedicated Preoccupation Enigma

Book:Clarence John Laughlin: the personal eye

Source: Clarence John Laughlin: the personal eye

“The photograph gives constant reference to the rectangle. This forces any idea into the confines of pictorial illusionism.”

Giving Ideas Force Constant Photograph Pictorial Rectangles

Author:Dennis Oppenheim

“We normally consider stability to be the constant in life and accidents to be the exception, but it's exactly the opposite. In reality, the accident is the rule and stability is the exception.”

Reality Opposites Constant Accidents Exception Stability

Author:Gabriel Orozco

“My photographs are not just about the instant of movement you capture in the camera. It's much more total, about constant movement that became static.”

Movement Cameras Constant Photograph Instant Capture Static

Book:Clinton is innocent

Source: Clinton is innocent

“There is an urgent need to examine old opinions and look at things from a new viewpoint. There must be an increase in the joy one takes in an object, and the photographer should become fully conscious of the splendid fidelity of reproduction made possible by his technique. Nature, after all, is not so poor that she requires constant improvement.”

Source: Albert Renger-Patzsch: joy before the object

“Obsession and repetition in the process of making things is one constant element in my work.”

Process Elements Constant Obsession Repetition

Book:Sandy Skoglund: reality under siege : a retrospective

Source: Sandy Skoglund: reality under siege : a retrospective

“It would be so easy to lose the plot now. It's not about achieving something for its own sake, and taking pictures for their own sake. But to make conscious decisions and choices, and it includes this constant questioning - Why am I taking pictures? Because really, the world is... it has pictures enough. I mean, there are enough pictures out there.”

World Mean Enough Would Be Choices Easy Loses Decision Achieve Conscious Constant Sake Plot Questioning Taking Pictures Questioning Why

Author:Wolfgang Tillmans

“The constant petty behests of life permit few opportunities for major satisfactions, and when one is offered it should be seized.”

Should Opportunity Majors Constant Satisfaction Permit Petty

Book:FAMILY AFFAIR

Source: FAMILY AFFAIR

“We are in constant danger of being not actors in the drama of our lives but reactors, to go where the world takes us, to drift with whatever current happens to be running the strongest.”

World Happens Running Actors Our Lives Danger Drama Constant Currents Strongest

Author:Frederick Buechner