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“The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end”

Source: Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01

“Liberals have a new wish every time their latest wish is granted. Conservatives should make them spell out their principles and ideals. Instead of doing this, conservatives allow liberals to pursue incremental goals without revealing their ultimate destination. So, thanks to the negligence of their opponents, liberals control the terms of every debate by always demanding 'more' while never defining 'enough.' The predictable result is that they always get more, and it's never enough.”

Should Enough Politics Wish Goal Term Results Principles Ideals Ultimate Debate Pursue Thanks Granted Opponents Destination Spells Revealing Defining Predictable Negligence

Author:Joseph Sobran

“It is the curse of talent that, although it labors with greater steadiness and perseverance than genius, it does not reach its goal, while genius already on the summit of the ideal, gazes laughingly about.”

Doe Goal Greater Talent Genius Ideals Labor Perseverance Curse Summit Steadiness

Author:Robert Schumann

“Our ideals resemble the stars, which illumintate the night. No one will ever be able to touch them. But the men who, like the sailors on the ocean, take them for guides, will undoubtedly reach their goal.”

Men Able Night Stars Goal He Man Ocean Ideals Guides Sailor

Author:Carl Schurz

“Technically speaking, since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents,they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities. These disruptions can, with minimum expense, have considerably destructive consequences. Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.”

“If the subjectivist view hold true, thinking cannot be of any help in determining the desirability of any goal in itself. The acceptability of ideals, the criteria for our actions and beliefs, the leading principles of ethics and politics, all our ultimate decisions are made to depend upon factors other than reason. They are supposed to be matters of choice and predilection, and it has become meaningless to speak of truth in making practical, moral or esthetic decisions.”

“The terror in which English capitalists now stand of organized proletarian resistance gives to the naturally protected craft organizations the power to receive the wages they demand. They act as they have been trained to act by capitalist society, which denies the doctrine of the Just Price, which proclaims work to be an evil and the goal of human endeavor to be the avoidance of it; which puts it up as an ideal that individuals should get as much money as they possibly can out of their fellows by any means in their power.”

“For me, the goal is always to write a novel that I myself would like to read. People frequently ask me what my favorite book is, and in effect, there's always a capital-F Favorite, capital-B Book that I would like to write myself someday. I try to go for that ideal of writing the best, most entertaining, most beautifully written book that I possibly can.”

People Writing Trying Book Asks Goal Novel Written Effects Ideals My Favorite Ask Me Someday Entertaining Favorite Book

Author:Michael Chabon

“In the long and dogged crusade that the human race has fought in favor of democracy, the ideal of liberty, of freedom, has always been the goal.”

Humans Long Goal Race Liberty Democracy Ideals Favors Human Race Crusades

Book:The House of Commons at Work

Source: The House of Commons at Work

“Be not in despair, the way is very difficult, like walking on the edge of a razor; yet despair not, arise, awake, and find the ideal, the goal.”

Way Difficult Goal Walking Despair Ideals Edges Arise Awake Razors

Book:Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge

Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge

“Our ego ideal is precious to us because it repairs a loss of our earlier childhood, the loss of our image of self as perfect and whole, the loss of a major portion of our infantile, limitless, ain't-I-wonderful narcissism which we had to give up in the face of compelling reality. Modified and reshaped into ethical goals and moral standards and a vision of what at our finest we might be, our dream of perfection lives on--our lost narcissism lives on--in our ego ideal.”

Source: Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex

“The unique eludes us; yet we remain faithful to the ideal of it; and in spite of sense and of our merely abstract thinking, it becomes for us the most real thing in the actual world, although for us it is the elusive goal of an infinite quest.”

Thinking World Real Goal Unique Ideals Infinite Individuality Faithful Abstract Spite Quests Real Things Elusive Elude Elude Us Abstract Thinking

Book:The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown

Source: The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown

“Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato.”

Goal Modern Ideals Philosopher Plato Menace

Author:Moses Finley

“Our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal to all men who are struggling to breathe free.”

Men Lying Strong Goal Struggle Strength Prove Ideals Universal Breathe Appeals Setting Goals Not Alone Being Strong

Author:Adlai Stevenson I

“Not living for food, but living for the sake of an ideal, that is the goal of education”

Goal Ideals Sake Educational

Author:Sai Baba

“Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it.”

Ifs May Long Goal Circumstances Ideals Strive Perceive A Man Thinketh

Book:As a Man Thinketh: The Secret Edition – Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams

Source: As a Man Thinketh: The Secret Edition – Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams

“Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.”

Should Goal Powerful Sky Ideals Practicals Application Pie Dreamy

Author:Les Brown

“Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation.”

Self Dream Hate Humanity Goal Space Cutting Ideals Budgets Get Real Annihilation Debauchery Faith In Humanity

Author:Johnny Hart

“So it`s always helped me to have a foundation, an ideal to strive for and goals. It`s hard for me to be disciplined and plan things.”

Hard Goal Plans Ideals Foundation Strive

Author:Val Kilmer

“Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness comes to an end. It is a mistake to suppose that pleasure is the goal. The cause of all the miseries we have in the world is that men foolishly think pleasure to be the ideal to strive for. After a time man finds that it is not happiness, but knowledge, towards which he is going, and that both pleasure and pain are great teachers.”

Thinking Men World Ends Pain Causes Goal Pleasure Mistake Teacher Ideals Misery Strive Great Teacher Pain And Pleasure Pleasure And Happiness

Book:Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action

Source: Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action

“In the years of the Roman Republic, before the Christian era, Roman education was meant to produce those character traits that would make the ideal family man. Children were taught primarily to be good to their families. To revere gods, one's parents, and the laws of the state were the primary lessons for Roman boys. Cicero described the goal of their child rearing as "self- control, combined with dutiful affection to parents, and kindliness to kindred.”

“Cutting through complexity to find a solution runs through four predictable stages: determine a goal, find the highest-leverage approach, discover the ideal technology for that approach, and in the meantime, make the smartest application of the technology that you already have - whether it's something sophisticated, like a drug, or something simpler, like a bednet.”

Running Goal Technology Four Cutting Stage Drug Approach Highest Solutions Ideals Determine Complexity Application Sophisticated Predictable

Author:Bill Gates

“Like it or not, we live in interesting times. They are times of danger and uncertainty; but they are also the most creative of any time in the history of mankind. And everyone here will ultimately be judged - will ultimately judge himself - on the effort he has contributed to building a new world society and the extent to which his ideals and goals have shaped that effort.”

Men World Energy Goal Interesting Effort Creative Danger Building Judging Ideals Uncertainty Judged New World Creative Energy Interesting Times

Author:Robert Kennedy