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“To overcome stress you have to find out something. You've got to do some research and homework. You need to find out who you are today.”

Inspirational Needs Today Buddhism Research Overcoming Stress Who You Are Homework

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Unruly beings are as unlimited as space They cannot possibly all be overcome, But if I overcome thoughts of anger alone This will be equivalent to vanquishing all foes. Where would I possibly find enough leather With which to cover the surface of the earth? But (wearing) leather just on the soles of my shoes Is equivalent to covering the earth with it. Likewise it is not possible for me To restrain the external course of things; But should I restrain this mind of mine What would be the need to restrain all else?”

Ifs Needs Should Mind Enough Would Be Earth Courses Space Mines Overcoming Shoes Surface Buddhist Should I Unlimited Foe Covering Leather Unruly

Author:Shantideva

“The leader demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.”

Needs Challenges Leader Mets Overcoming Crisis Wrestling

Book:Lead on!: leadership that endures in a changing world

Source: Lead on!: leadership that endures in a changing world

“If you are deaf, you need captions for spoken elements. If you are blind, you need voiced descriptions of Web contents and spoken renderings of e-mail. The range of physical disabilities is very large, and we need many different tools to overcome the consequential barriers to Internet use. Let us commit ourselves to truly assuring that the Internet really is for everyone.”

Ifs Needs Different Use Internet Elements Tools Overcoming Blind Commit Range Description Barriers Disability Mail Blindness Deaf Rendering Caption Web Content

Author:Vinton Cerf

“I learned that our deepest need is to overcome our aloneness and our separateness. We seek to escape from separateness in various ways. We seek conformity, mistaking it for union. This is a soul-crushing way to exist. Or we seek union through orgiastic states - drugs, alcoholism, overwork - or through creative activities. But the ultimate escape from separateness is through interpersonal union.”

Way Needs Soul States Motivational Creative Drug Activity Ultimate Overcoming Unions Various Crush Conformity Alcoholism Separateness Overwork Interpersonal

Book:Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership

Source: Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership

“With the arrival of the new comes the need to overcome fascination with novelty in order to approach substance and sophistication - a sophistication born of subtlety and depth of perception, not complexity and perceived virtuosity.”

Needs Order Born Technology Perception Approach Overcoming Depth Substance Complexity Fascination Novelty Arrivals Subtlety Sophistication Virtuosity

Author:John Paul Caponigro

“Whenever I'm really stuck, when I really need to go 'in there,' I sing the Chalisa and that connects me to Maharajji, to Hanuman, to that powerful presence that's deeper than any of that stuff. And, by touching that, I'm able to overcome whatever I'm stuck in...at least for 10 minutes.”

Needs Able Stuff Powerful Minutes Overcoming Deeper Stuck Touching Hanuman

Author:Krishna Das

“To be a super-trader, you'll need an edge to overcome the laws of probability and the uncertainty of the marketplace. That edge comes from information flow, the ability to correct your habits in terms of the market's characteristics, and being able to take risks, cut losses, expand your information network, ferret out ideas, and take recommendations.”

Needs Ideas Able Law Term Loss Ability Cutting Risk Information Habit Flow Overcoming Edges Uncertainty Characteristics Probability Marketplace Traders Recommendations Ferrets Information Flow

Author:Ari Kiev

“Because arrogance is born in personal vanity, arrogant people are driven without mercy. They can never get enough power to fill the soul's needs or enough respect to overcome the fear that they deserve less than they are getting.”

People Needs Soul Enough Born Deserve Mercy Overcoming Driven Vanity Arrogance Arrogant Arrogant People

Book:Love Within Limits: Realizing Selfless Love in a Selfish World

Source: Love Within Limits: Realizing Selfless Love in a Selfish World

“When we consider the close connection between science and industrial development on the one hand, and between literary and aesthetic cultivation and an aristocratic social organization on the other, we get light on the opposition between technical scientific studies and refining literary studies. We have before us the need of overcoming this separation in education if society is to be truly democratic.”

Ifs Needs Hands Light Social Study Development Connections Organization Overcoming Democratic Separation Opposition Aesthetic Cultivation Refining Aristocratic Social Organization

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way. And you, sitting around here like a knot on the wall, saying, “I’m going to love these folks no matter how much they hate me.” No, you need a revolution. Whoever heard of a revolution where they lock arms, as Reverend Cleage was pointing out beautifully, singing “We Shall Overcome”? Just tell me. You don’t do that in a revolution. You don’t do any singing; you’re too busy swinging.”

“True majorities, in a TV-dominated and anti-intellectual age, may need sound bites and flashing lights and I am not against supplying such lures if they draw children into even a transient concern with science. But every classroom has one [Oliver] Sacks , one [Eric] Korn, or one [Jonathan] Miller , usually a lonely child with a passionate curiosity about nature, and a zeal that overcomes pressures for conformity. Do not the one in fifty deserve their institutions as well magic places, like cabinet museums, that can spark the rare flames of genius?”

Source: Dinosaur in a haystack: reflections in natural history

“Many of us, utterly overcome by Tamas, the dark and heavy demon of inertia, are saying nowadays that it is impossible, that India is decayed, bloodless and lifeless, too weak ever to recover; that our race is doomed to extinction. It is a foolish and idle saying. No man or nation need be weak unless he chooses, no man or nation need perish unless he deliberately chooses extinction.”

Men Needs Nations Dark Race Impossible Weak Overcoming India Heavy Foolish Demon Idle Doomed Extinction Saying No Inertia Lifeless

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“My right side is paralyzed. I need no doctor. I can overcome my own troubles.”

Needs I Can Sides My Own Trouble Doctors Overcoming Last Words Paralyzed

Author:Andrew Johnson

“Don't get discouraged. As far as I'm concerned, a positive attitude is the most important attribute any runner can have. You'll need it often. Every runner has bad days, every runner has occasional injuries, and every runner eventually slows down (take it from someone who has slowed down a lot). But as long as you maintain a positive attitude, you'll find ways to overcome the obstacles and continue running. After all, running offers countless rewards. It's simply up to you to find the ones that have the most meaning for you.”

Way Needs Long Important Running Attitude Offers Concerned Overcoming Rewards Obstacles Positive Attitude Injury Attributes Runners Slow Down Discouraged Up To You Occasional Bad Day

Author:Amby Burfoot

“The secret of adventure, then, is not to carefully seek it out but to travel in such a way that it finds you. To do this, you first need to overcome the protective habits of home and open yourself up to unpredictability. As you begin to practice this openness, you'll quickly discover adventure in the simple reality of a world that defies your expectations. More often than not, you'll discover that “adventure” is a decision after the fact-a way of deciphering an event or an experience that you can't quite explain.”

World Way Needs Firsts Facts Home Reality Simple Decision Secret Practice Events Adventure Habit Expectations Overcoming Openness Protective Unpredictability

Author:Rolf Potts

“Whoever takes it upon himself to write an honest intellectual history of twentieth-century Europe will need a strong stomach. But he will need something more. He will need to overcome his disgust long enough to ponder the roots of this strange and puzzling phenomenon.”

Needs Writing Long Enough Strong Century Honest Strange Intellectual Europe Roots Overcoming Phenomenon Stomach Disgusting Twentieth Century Pondering Puzzling

Author:Mark Lilla

“He that is once "born of God shall overcome the world," and the prince of this world too, by the power of God in him. Holiness is no solitary, neglected thing; it hath stronger confederacies, greater alliances, than sin and wickedness. It is in league with God and the universe; the whole creation smiles upon it; there is something of God in it, and therefore it must needs be a victorious and triumphant thing.”

Source: The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated. A Treatise on Immutable Morality; with a Discourse Concerning the True Notion of the Lord's Supper: and Two Sermons on 1. John 2: 3, 4, and 1. Cor. 15: 27

“Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties, by patient struggle against adverse circumstance, by the thrifty use of moderate opportunities. The great artists were not rocked and dandled into eminence, but they attained to it by that course of labor and discipline which no man need go to Rome or Paris or London to enter upon.”

“Pain is a holy angel who shows us treasures that would otherwise remain forever hidden; through him men and women have become greater than through all the joys of the world. It must be so and I tell myself this in my present situation over and over again. The pain of suffering and of longing, which can often be felt even physically, must be there, and we cannot and need not talk it away. But it needs to be overcome every time, and thus there is an even holier angel than the one of pain; that is, the one of joy in God.”

Men World Needs Shows Pain Joy Suffering Felt Situation Forever Greater Holy Men And Women Angel Overcoming Longing Treasure Often Is Present Situation

Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“I am resolved to rise superior to every obstacle. With whom need I be afraid of measuring my strength? I will take Fate by the throat. It shall not overcome me. O how beautiful it is to be alive - would that I could live a thousand times!”

Needs Beautiful Alive Fate Thousand Overcoming Obstacles Superiors Throat Measuring

Author:Ludwig van Beethoven

“Our assignment is not only to make visits but to consistently carry the Spirit into homes, to bless families with the pure love of Christ, to inspire, encourage, lift, and fortify. Every home is in need of additional support. Visiting teachers bring that blessed reinforcement. It is a sacred trust we have been given. We can overcome the obstacles.”

Needs Has Beens Home Spirit Given Christ Support Teacher Inspire Pure Overcoming Blessed Sacred Obstacles Lifts Bless Consistently Visiting Assignments Pure Love Reinforcement

Author:Bonnie D. Parkin

“Experience is the best teacher. But in our day and time, what we need is wisdom, because wisdom overcomes experience, because experience is wisdom, but there's a level of wisdom that overcomes the experience, and that's the experience that's already lived by others. I'm not trying to repeat the histories. I already learned from what they did.”

Needs Trying Levels Teacher Overcoming Repeats Best Teacher

Author:RZA

“Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.”

Needs Hero Overcoming Scary Monsters Heroic Credentials

Author:Margaret Atwood

“It is abundantly evident that, however natural it may be for us to feel sorrow at the death of our relatives, that sorrow is an error and an evil, and we ought to overcome it. There is no need to sorrow for them, for they have passed into a far wider and happier life. If we sorrow for our own fancied separation from them, we are in the first place weeping over an illusion, for in truth they are not separated from us; and secondly, we are acting selfishly, because we are thinking more of our own apparent loss than of their great and real gain.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Feels Firsts May Real Death Evil Natural Loss Acting Ought Sorrow Illusion Gains Overcoming Errors Separation Evident Weeping Happier Life

Author:Charles Webster Leadbeater

“Obviously, because of my disability, I need assistance. But I have always tried to overcome the limitations of my condition and lead as full a life as possible. I have traveled the world, from the Antarctic to zero gravity.”

World Needs Conditions Overcoming Limitation Zero Disability Gravity Traveled Assistance Zero Gravity

Author:Stephen Hawking

“If you're losing the battle against a persistent bad habit, an addiction, or a temptation, and you're stuck in a repeating cycle of good intention-failure-guilt, you will not get better on your own. You need the help of other people. Some temptations are only overcome with the help of a partner who prays for you, encourages you, and holds you accountable.”

People Ifs Needs Helping Praying Habit Battle Losing Overcoming Guilt Intention Addiction Partners Stuck Temptation Get Better Cycles Persistent Good Intentions Bad Habits Praying For You

Author:Rick Warren

“I'm sure all of us agree that we need to overcome violence, but we first need to examine whether it has any value. From a strictly practical perspective, on certain occasions violence appears to be useful. We can solve a problem quickly by force. But this success is often at the expense of the rights and welfare of others. Although one problem has been solved, the seed of another has been planted.”

Needs Firsts Has Beens Problem Certain Values Force Rights Violence Perspective Overcoming Agree Solve Seeds Practicals Occasions Welfare Expenses

Author:Dalai Lama

“Do we have a brain? Than use it. It's all you need to overcome a problem. That's the secret. That's my simple but powerful prescription for life, love, and success in a dangerous world.”

World Needs Use Problem Simple Powerful Secret Brain Dangerous Overcoming Love Life Prescriptions Dangerous World

Author:Benjamin Carson

“The US needs a cap and trade system with auctioning of licenses for emissions rights. The revenues from these auctions can be used to launch a new, environmentally friendly energy policy. That would be yet another federal program that could help us to overcome the stagnation.”

Needs Helping Would Be Used Energy Rights Policy Program Overcoming Trade Friendly Revenue License Caps Emissions Stagnation Auctions Energy Policy Licenses Environmentally Friendly

Author:George Soros

“It is difficult to explain to children in the "overdeveloped" nations that not all children in the world have such beautiful and nourishing food. Awareness of this fact alone can help us overcome many of our own psychological pains. Eventually our contemplation can help us see how to assist those who need our help so much.”

World Needs Children Facts Helping Pain Beautiful Nations Peace Difficult Awareness Overcoming Psychological Contemplation Psychological Pain

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Many people see themselves as a problem that needs to be solved. They also habitually see the present moment as an obstacle that they need to overcome or get away from. With awareness, an inner sense of spaciousness arises that enables you to look at your own mind, which is to say the human mind, with a certain degree of detachment.”

People Needs Mind Humans Looks Moments Problem Certain Awareness Degrees Overcoming Obstacles Arise Get Away Present Moment Human Mind Detachment Spaciousness

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Bank accounts for each household is a national priority for us. We need to rise to the occasion & successfully overcome this challenge.”

Needs Challenges Overcoming Accounts India Priorities Occasions Household Governance Bank Accounts

Author:Narendra Modi

“We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation / it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.”

Needs Dream Form Motivation Powerful Overcoming Obstacles Empowering Rooted Our Dreams

Author:Les Brown

“Achievers are resolute in their goals and driven by determination. Discouragement is temporary, obstacles are overcome, and doubt is defeated, yielding to personal victory. You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals. Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.”

“If you tell your own story to your children - that includes your positive moments and your negative moments, and how you overcame them - you give your children the skills and the confidence they need to feel like they can overcome some hardship that they've felt.”

Ifs Needs Giving Feels Children Moments Stories Felt Skills Negative Overcoming Our Children Your Children Hardship

Author:Bruce Feiler

“I challenged myself to write/direct a romantic comedy. People trash talk the rom com, but it's one of the oldest cinematic genres, with stellar origins like Twentieth Century and Trouble in Paradise. I think as audiences lost their innocence, the genre lost its suspense. To create suspense, you need obstacles, so I gave my couple an obstacle that very few people ever overcome: their own behavior and their past.”

“Travel is about failure or overcoming obstacles, overcoming failures. When a traveler is having lots of good luck, that is not a happy book. That's a book you say, well, I don't need that. I want a life lesson. I want to find out - I want a journey that reflects my life.”

Want Needs Wells Book Journey Lessons Overcoming Luck Obstacles Life Lesson Traveler Good Luck Overcoming Failure

Author:Paul Theroux

“The lesson of the way of love is that evil can only be overcome by good. We don't need to reach out and tear down the things that are evil because nothing which is contrary to the law of love can endure.”

Way Needs Law Evil Love Is Tears Lessons Overcoming Endure Contrary Reach Out Way Of Love

Author:Peace Pilgrim

“You don't need to compromise your standards to be accepted by good friends. The more obedient you arethe more the Lord can help you overcome temptation. You can also help others because they will feel your strength. Let them know about your standards by consistently living themNo one intends to make serious mistakes. They come when you compromise your standards to be more accepted by others. You be the strong one. You be the leader. Choose good friends and resist peer pressure together.”

“There needs to be more women scholars, and that is not something new, we need to return to the glorified past and get more women scholars involved to overcome the Fetahs of patriarchy.”

Needs Past Return Involved Overcoming Something New Scholar Patriarchy

Author:Mark Durie

“THIS IS THE WAY OF PEACE: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love... My simple peace message is adequate - really just the message that the way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things. One in harmony with God's law of love has more strength than an army, for one need not subdue an adversary; an adversary can be transformed.”

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“Then we have the silence of the eyes which will always help us to see God. Our eyes are like two windows through which Christ or the world comes to our hearts. Often we need great courage to keep them closed. How often we say, I wish I had not seen this thing, and yet we take so little trouble to overcome the desire to see everything.”

World Needs Heart Littles Two Helping Eye Desire Wish Christ Silence Trouble Window Overcoming

Author:Mother Teresa

“Success needs vision to see, passion to transcend, patience to withstand and the character to overcome failures.”

Needs Character Passion Vision Overcoming Overcoming Failure

Author:Amit Ray

“Obviously invidious and prejudicial stereotypes need to be deconstructed and overcome, but it's not that they can be destroyed. I think that would be an illusion to think that we can somehow get rid of these basic search templates that allow us to sort out our social lives and to sort out the material world as well.”

Thinking World Needs Wells Would Be Social Materials Illusion Overcoming Destroyed Stereotype Social Life Material World

Author:W. J. T. Mitchell

“I don't make movies about issues. This is my same litmus test for all the movies I love: Is it a great character on a great emotional quest with a great emotional need? Do they overcome great emotional obstacles? Is it a fantastic story? I didn't set out to be a political activist. I'm just a human being who's moved by certain things, and if certain things break my heart, I set out to fix them.”

“The people who need to overcome temptation to the highest degree have the hardest time doing it.”

People Needs Degrees Highest Overcoming Hardest Temptation Hardest Times

Author:Dan Ariely

“I think in the end, you know, we're just addicted to oil. We've got to overcome that addiction, and we need some serious accountability of big oil, because big oil, like so much of big businesses, has just colonized our government, colonized the regulatory agencies so we can't impose any kind of accountability on them.”

Thinking Knows Needs Kind Ends Bigs Government Serious Overcoming Addiction Oil Agency Accountability Big Business Big Oil

Author:Cornel West

“We have lots of other problems with plastic in our oceans. There are five different big gyres of plastic out in the ocean. There are problems with air pollution around the country that we need to deal with, and around the world. We have a great many problems to overcome, so I work on a lot of different boards trying to help in those important areas.”

World Needs Trying Important Different Country Helping Problem Bigs Deals Five Air Ocean Areas Overcoming Around The World Boards Great Men Plastic Pollution Air Pollution

Author:Ed Begley, Jr.

“I really do believe that in order to overcome our environmental shortcomings, we have to act united as a people, and that means that every individual has to participate and do their part. Certainly, we need government and legislation, but the governments really listen to people, so we all have to bring to the table our own effort or our own passion in whatever way that manifests itself.”

People Way Needs Believe Mean Government Order Passion Individual United Effort Overcoming Tables Environmental Legislation Our Environment Shortcomings

Author:Adrian Grenier