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“I just want you to be motivated by the magnitude of the opportunity.”

“Confidence tends to minimize the magnitude of the choice.”

Source: The Shape of Mercy: A Novel

“We have reached a profound point in economic history where the truth is unpalatable to the political class - and that truth is that the scale and magnitude of the problem is larger than their ability to respond - and it terrifies them.”

Problem Political Ability Class Economic Truth Is Profound Scales Magnitude Economic History

Author:Hugh Hendry

“France, like other countries, is facing a terror threat that is unprecedented in its nature and magnitude, ... Terrorists are targeting France to divide us.”

Country Nature Threat Terror Terrorist France Divides Other Countries Unprecedented Magnitude

Author:Manuel Valls

“For me as a person who's in the arts and as someone who understands the magnitude of our contributions and the price that was paid to contribute to that, that we just have not gotten that together. I will do all that I can to get in front of our kids, to try to teach them, but at a certain point the people have to want it and come towards it.”

People Want Trying Persons Art I Can Kids Together Certain Teach Fronts Paid Contribution Magnitude

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“When a lot of athletes get done playing, they end up in some really tough positions. They have a hard time transitioning because their identity is wrapped up in who they are as a player and what they do rather than who they can be in Christ. We desire to help people understand the invitation that God has given each one of us as Christ followers to be a part of this global redemptive story. If you can't give your life to something with meaning and purpose of that magnitude then there's nothing there.”

People Ifs Giving Ends Hard Done Helping Stories Desire Purpose Given Christ Player Identity Position Tough Athlete Hard Times Followers Invitations Magnitude

Author:Aaron Kampman

“We've lived through a time in which people have felt they could forge their own future and make a better world. We may not have achieved our dreams in the time frame that we once believed was realistic, but the magnitude of what is yet to be achieved only confirms the importance of our commitment. Knowing this, we can't stop now.”

People World May Dream Felt Knowing Commitment Importance Realistic Our Dreams Magnitude

Author:Peter Yarrow

“My guys look for me to step up in that magnitude and I take the challenge every time. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose, but you've got to have a guy that will take those shots and deal with the consequences.”

Looks Sometimes Guy Winning Loses Challenges Deals Steps Shots Consequence Magnitude Step Up

Author:Chauncey Billups

“For me the starting point for everything - before strategy, tactics, theories, managing, organizing, philosophy, methodology, talent, or experience - is work ethic. Without one of significant magnitude, you're dead in the water.”

Philosophy Water Talent Theory Ethics Strategy Starting Significant Work Ethic Tactics Magnitude Starting Point Methodology

Book:The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership

Source: The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership

“H. L. Mencken suffers from the hallucination that he is H. L. Mencken - there is no cure for a disease of that magnitude.”

Suffering Disease Cures Magnitude Hallucinations

Author:Maxwell Bodenheim

“Never underestimate the magnitude of the power of the forces that reinforce the status quo.”

Force Underestimate Status Quo Magnitude Never Underestimate

Author:John P. Kotter

“It was a realization for me when Oprah was talking about New Moon. I was like, "Oh, my god, she's watched a movie that I've been in!" People were like, "It just kicked in for you?," but it's just work for me. The idea that somebody that I've admired for so long had seen something that I'd done was when I understood the magnitude of it.”

People Long Ideas Done Talking Moon Understood Realization Magnitude New Moon

Author:Tinsel Korey

“One of the drivers of heroin has been the misuse of pain medication. If we're gonna deal with heroin and heroin use in the United States, we really have to focus on reducing the magnitude of the prescription drug use issue.”

Ifs Has Beens States Use Pain United Deals United States Issues Focus Drug Drivers Reducing Prescriptions Magnitude Medication Heroin Misuse Prescription Drugs Drug Use

Author:Michael Botticelli

“Norman Mailer decocts matters of the first philosophical magnitude from an examination of his own ordure, and I am not talking about his books.”

Firsts Book Matter Talking Philosophical Examination Magnitude Not Talking

Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.

“God has given us a vision to see the body of Christ move from being an inactive audience to a Spirit-filled army. . . God is about to unloose a powerful outpouring of the Holy Spirit of an unprecedented magnitude. . . He is looking for individuals who will be 'dread champions' for his cause.”

Body Moving Spirit Individual Given Causes Christ Powerful Vision Audience Holy Army Filled Champion Holy Spirit Dread Unprecedented Magnitude Body Of Christ

Author:John Wimber

“When you consider the sheer magnitude of investable equities to choose from in the world's emerging markets, you realize that finding one that looks attractive enough to warrant investing your faith and assets in is as formidable a task as finding a needle in a haystack. Fortunately, researching investment opportunities is a lot more interesting than digging for needles in haystacks.”

“Mozart shows a creative power of such magnitude that one can virtually say that he tossed out of himself one great masterpiece after another.”

Shows Creative Masterpiece Magnitude Creative Power

Author:Claudio Arrau

“The reactors in Japan are stable in the same way that a ticking time bomb is also stable. It wouldn't take much to light the fuse - a 6.6 earthquake, like what happened today in Japan, a pipe break, an over-pressurized containment vessel - anything could set it off, in which case we would have another Chernobyl, three times the magnitude of a Chernobyl accident.”

Way Light Today Three Break Cases Happened Accidents Bombs Japan Stable Three Times Vessel Pipe Earthquakes Magnitude Fuse Chernobyl Containment Time Bomb Ticking Time Ticking Time Bombs

Author:Michio Kaku

“It's just kind of, we do a lot of songs when it's an artist of that magnitude, like Beyoncé. You're not sending her one song; you're sending her 20 ideas.”

Kind Ideas Artist Song Magnitude

Author:Rodney Jerkins

“I knew what I was doing, but I never really considered the magnitude of how my images were transformative to people.”

People Magnitude

Author:Mickalene Thomas

“No one knows how to make going to orbit orders of magnitude safer and orders of magnitude more affordable.”

Knows Order Know How Affordable Magnitude Orbit

Author:Burt Rutan

“It is unjust, and sometimes very untrue, though it is a common theory, to hold that it is sacrifices which make the beauty of a combination, and that the combination is prettier by the magnitude of the sacrifices.”

Sometimes Common Sacrifice Theory Chess Combination Unjust Magnitude Untrue

Book:The Art of Chess Combination

Source: The Art of Chess Combination

“We have volcanoes also in our immediate neighborhood. I wish we didn't have to travel that far. Probably the kind of magnitude and awesome raw power of them is very fascinating, and of course it's very cinematic.”

Kind Courses Wish Fascinating Neighborhood Magnitude Volcanoes Cinematic

Author:Werner Herzog

“No one is strong enough - given the magnitude of the task, everyone has to step up their game.”

Enough Games Strong Given Steps Tasks Strong Enough Magnitude Step Up

Author:Bill McKibben

“The gigantic challenge is the magnitude of the individual differences in the optimal set point for "good stress." For one person, it's doing something risky with your bishop in a chess game; for someone else, it's becoming a mercenary in Yemen.”

Persons Games Individual Challenges Differences Becoming Stress Chess Bishops Magnitude Chess Game Optimal Mercenary Yemen Individual Differences

Author:Robert M. Sapolsky

“Bioterrorism is like earthquakes, you should think in order of magnitudes. If you can kill 10 people that's a one, 100 people that's a two... Bioterrorism is the thing that can give you not just sixes, but sevens, eights and nines.”

People Ifs Thinking Giving Should Two Order Earthquakes Magnitude

Author:Bill Gates

“Our world is facing a refugee crisis of a magnitude not seen since the Second World War. This presents us with great challenges and many hard decisions.”

World War Hard Challenges Decision Crisis War Of The Worlds Our World Refugee Magnitude Second World War Refugee Crisis Hard Decision

Author:Pope Francis

“No matter to what degree China opens up to the outside world and admits foreign capital, its relative magnitude will be small and it can't affect our system of socialist public ownership of the means of production.”

World Mean Matter Degrees Productions China Relative Ownership Socialist Magnitude Outside World

Author:Deng Xiaoping

“A possibility is that we see more and more leverage, and credit-to-GDP ratios rise once more to even higher levels; eventually the banking systems of all advanced economies reach magnitudes of 500 percent, 1000 percent or more of GDP, so that every economy starts to have financial systems that resemble recent cases like Switzerland, Ireland, Iceland, or Cyprus. That might be a very fragile world to live in.”

“There are times when a market such as housing, transportation or the stock or mortgage market keep rising and people with capital want to join in this growth. Soon the markets become overheated, partly because of the abundance of investment money and speculation. This is when the government should raise interest rates and increase the cost of borrowed money. Governments are shy about doing this because it could cause the very recession. Yet this is the best time to do this so that the inevitable recession never reaches the magnitude of the recent Great Recession.”

“There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.”

Two Order Sea Land Active Magnitude Volcanoes Ocean Exploration

Author:Robert Ballard

“One way to think about the magnitude of the changes to come is to think about how you went about your business before powerful Web search engines. You probably wouldn't have imagined that a world of answers would be available to you in under a second. The next set of advances will have an different effect, but similar in magnitude.”

Thinking World Way Different Would Be Next Answers Powerful Effects Available One Way Engines Magnitude Search Engine

Author:Tim Berners-Lee

“The magnitude of the atomic weight determines the character of the element, just as the magnitude of the molecule determines the character of a compound body.”

Character Body Elements Weight Determine Compounds Magnitude Molecules

Book:Mendeleev on the Periodic Law: Selected Writings, 1869 - 1905

Source: Mendeleev on the Periodic Law: Selected Writings, 1869 - 1905

“It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.”

Taken Consideration Magnitude

Author:Thomas Paine

“I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake.”

Helping Impressed Earthquakes Magnitude

Author:Dan Quayle

“Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.”

Mind Littles Time Building Standing Related Pessimism Squares Magnitude Great Minds

Book:The Horrors and Absurdities of Religion

Source: The Horrors and Absurdities of Religion

“A reprisal of this magnitude... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless.”

Feelings Rooms Helpless Back And Forth Magnitude Perplexed Reprisal

Author:Moshe Sharett

“The whole point of Superman, as originally created, was to be the ally of those who had no other allies. It put that magnitude of power, the most powerful guy in the world, in the service of those who had no hope, no chance.”

World Whole Guy Chance Powerful Most Powerful Allies No Hope Magnitude

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.”

Age Artist Growing Bombs Birthday Magnitude Anonymity

Author:Jock Sturges

“Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.”

World Three Sports Exciting Entertainment Profession Aviation Magnitude Sports Entertainment

Author:John Travolta

“Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.”

Government Madness Organized Permit Peculiar Benevolence Magnitude

Author:John Updike

“Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.”

Ifs Knows Sometimes Answers Tragedy Response Holocaust Magnitude Auschwitz

Book:Night

Source: Night

“As more information becomes available, and the magnitude of the storm's impact becomes even more apparent, it becomes clear that this recovery will be lengthy.”

Clear Information Impact Available Storm Recovery Magnitude Lengthy

Author:Jo Bonner

“I suspect there have been a number of conspiracies that never were described or leaked out. But I suspect none of the magnitude and sweep of Watergate.”

Has Beens Literature Numbers Suspects Conspiracy Magnitude Swagger Swag Watergate

Author:Bob Woodward

“A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.”

Heart Nature Environment Fire Tree Color Garden Dancing Warm Tongue Forests Flames Autumn Magnitude Plant A Tree Forests And Trees Woodland Forest Fires Woods And Forests

Author:Hal Borland

“For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.”

Ends Courses Memories Source Consequence Magnitude

Book:Night

Source: Night

“Private choices are not private; they all have public consequences...Our society is the sum total of what millions of individuals do in their private lives. That sum total of private behavior has worldwide public consequences of enormous magnitude. There are no completely private choices.”

Choices Individual Millions Behavior Consequence Enormous Our Society Private Life Magnitude

Author:James E. Faust

“We are each other's magnitude and bond.”

Ties Magnitude Toasts Wedding Toast Wedding Speech Weddings And Marriage Bridal Bridal Shower Maid Of Honor

Book:The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks

Source: The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks

“The referee told me this league has never had a brawl of that magnitude," said Mr. Penderwick after a long, painful silence. "Of course, at the time I was pretending to be a casual passerby and not a father at all.”

Long Said Courses Father Silence Painful League Pretending Casual Magnitude Referee Passerby

Author:Jeanne Birdsall

“You will be faced, now, with pain of a magnitude that none of us here can comprehend because it is beyond our experience. The Receiver himself was not able to describe it, only to remind us that you would be faced with it, that you would need immense courage.”

Needs Would Be Able Pain Immense Giver Magnitude Receiver

Book:The Giver Quartet

Source: The Giver Quartet

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