Best Sporadic Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are not prepared to gain new information for development. Learning is the intervention!”

Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“I like to work out. I work out hard when I get to it, but it's so sporadic, I'm not sure it counts at all! I eat pretty much anything, but I eat high-quality food. There was never a packet of chips or box of candy in my house when I was growing up. Ever.”

Hard House Quality Growing Up Growing Boxes Work Out Not Sure Candy Chips High Quality Sporadic

Author:Rachael Taylor

“Inspirational leaders need to have a winning mentality in order to inspire respect. It is hard to trust in the leadership of someone who is half-hearted about their purpose, or only sporadic in focus or enthusiasm.”

Needs Hard Purpose Order Winning Half Leader Focus Inspire Enthusiasm Mentality Hearted Half Hearted Hard To Trust Sporadic

Author:Sebastian Coe

“Writings like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.”

Writing Gambling Unpredictable Sporadic

Author:M. John Harrison

“Blind impatience is equally evident in the fruit section. Our ancestors might have delighted in the occasional handful of berries found on the underside of a bush in late summer, viewing it as a sign of the unexpected munificence of a divine creator, but we became modern when we gave up on awaiting sporadic gifts from above and sought to render any pleasing sensation immediately and repeatedly available.”

Source: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

“For me parks are good when first of all, they're not impeccable, and when solitude has appropriated them in such a way that solitude itself becomes an emblem, a defining trait for walkers, sporadic at best, who in my opinion should be irrevocably lost or absorbed in thought, and a bit confused, too, as when one walks through a space that's at once alien and familiar.”

Way Should Firsts Lost Bits Space Walks Opinion Solitude Familiar Aliens Confused Parks Traits Defining Walkers Emblems Impeccable Sporadic

Author:Sergio Chejfec

“I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I'm cured. It's a very inconsistent personality trait.”

Moments House Personality Lazy Traits Household Cleaning Inconsistent Ocd Personality Traits Clean House Sporadic

Author:Chris Hemsworth

“Disaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of being on the record makes it appear continuous and ubiquitous whereas it is more likely to have been sporadic both in time and place.”

Has Beens Facts Seems Records Accounts Disaster Sporadic

Book:A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Source: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

“The propagandist must utilize all of the technical means at his disposal - the press, radio, TV, movies, posters, meetings, door-to-door canvassing...There is no propaganda as long as one makes use, in a sporadic fashion and at random, of a newspaper article here, a poster or radio program there.”

Mean Long Use Doors Fashion Tvs Program Presses Meetings Radio Newspapers Propaganda Articles Posters Propagandist Sporadic Canvassing

Author:Jacques Ellul

“I look a lot busier than I am, as I'm actually a rather sporadic, random person and I'll play a few gigs and then disappear for a while.”

Looks Persons Play Disappear Gigs Busier Sporadic

Author:Paul McCartney

“Not bad in short, though the last one [understanding the language of animals], isn't half as useful as you might expect, since when all's said and done the language of the beasts tends to revolve around: a) the endless hunt for food, b) finding a warm bush to sleep in the evening, and c) the sporadic satisfication of certain glands. (Many would argue that the language of human kind boils down to this too)”

Humans Kind Said Done Might Lasts Certain Language Understanding Sleep Animal Half Findings Warm Arguing Endless Evening Beast Hunts Said And Done Glands Sporadic

Author:Jonathan Stroud

“It was one of those problematic occasions with long silences, sporadic coughs, and people saying isolated things like, "Well, isn't this nice.”

People Wells Long Silence Nice Occasions Isolated Sporadic Long Silence

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked without any historical past or contextual present. This is one of the ways in which women's work and thinking has been made to seem sporadic, errant, orphaned of any tradition of its own.”

Ifs Thinking Way Has Beens Made Seems Past Justice Diversity Tradition Social Justice Historical Feminist Sporadic

Book:On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978

Source: On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978

“If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to cultivate the delicate art of handling ideas. Psychology is now able to tell us with reasonable assurance that the most influential obstacle to freedom of thought and to new ideas is fear; and fear which can with inimitable art disguise itself as caution, or sanity, or reasoned skepticism, or on occasion even as courage.”

“For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.”

Has Beens Individual Women Effort Democracy Enlightened Imperialism Democracies Have Sporadic

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“Striving for happiness is a long, hard journey with many challenges. It requires eternal vigilance to win the victory. You cannot succeed with sporadic little flashes of effort. Constant and valiant living is necessary.”

“Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation, seemed merely a temporary halt on my steady descent through layer after layer of depression, like an elevator stopping for a moment on the way down to the basement.”

Way Moments Depression Calm Illness Disappointment Mental Illness Temporary Steady Layers Minors Stopping Relaxation Halt Descent Basements Elevators Sporadic

Author:Al Alvarez

“At night my father often heard sporadic gunfire mixed in with the sound of dogs howling. If the war came closer, soon there would be only minor difference between shooting a dog and shooting a man.”

Ifs Men War Would Be Night Father Sound Differences Heard Dog Shooting Minors Sporadic

Author:Dinaw Mengestu

“Prayer shouldn't be casual or sporadic, dictated only by the needs of the moment. Prayer should be as much a part of our lives as breathing.”

Needs Should Moments Christian Prayer Our Lives Christian Inspirational Breathing Casual Sporadic

Book:Hope for Each Day: Morning & Evening Devotions

Source: Hope for Each Day: Morning & Evening Devotions

“It frankly does not make sense to occasionally 'fill up' with water, with long periods of dehydration in between. The same thing is true spiritually. Spiritual thirst is a need for living water. A constant flow of living water is far superior to sporadic sipping.”

Needs Long Doe Spiritual Water Periods Flow Constant Superiors Make Sense Thirst Sipping Sporadic Dehydration Spiritual Thirst

Author:David A. Bednar

“Sporadic and shallow dipping in the doctrine of Christ and partial participation in His restored Church cannot produce the spiritual transformation that enables us to walk in a newness of life. Rather, fidelity to covenants, constancy of commitment, and offering our whole soul unto God are required if we are to receive the blessings of eternity.”

“Individual talent is too sporadic and unpredictable to be allowed any important part in the organization society. Social systems which endure are built on the average person who can be trained to occupy any position adequately if not brilliantly.”

Ifs Persons Important Individual Social Talent Position Built Organization Endure Average Unpredictable Average Person Social Systems Sporadic Individual Talent

Book:The Proper Study of Mankind ...: An Inquiry Into the Science of Human Relations

Source: The Proper Study of Mankind ...: An Inquiry Into the Science of Human Relations

“Selfishness is the most constant of human motives. Patriotism, humanity, or the love of God may lead to sporadic outbursts sweep away the heaped-up wrongs of centuries; but they languish at times, while the love of self works on ceaselessly, unwearyingly,burrowing always at the very root of life, and heaping up fresh wrongs for other centuries to sweep away.”

Humans May Self Humanity Century Self Love Roots Constant African American Selfishness God Love Motive Outburst Languish Sporadic Burrowing

Book:The Portable Charles W. Chesnutt

Source: The Portable Charles W. Chesnutt

“All of us, I suspect, imagine that a world exists from which we alone have been excluded; all of us have our noses pressed against the glass. But if we contemplate our own lives, not the phantom life on the other side, we might find things in them to envy-a family that’s intact; a job we like; excellent health (the thing we take for granted and on which all happiness depends). Good fortune is there, however sporadic, however modest, however difficult to achieve. The trick is to recognize it.”

“So many low income people have seen so many failed promises broken and seen so many quacks and sporadic medicines offered to them that building trust takes a lot of time, takes a lot of patience.”

People Building Broken Promise Lows Medicine Income Healthcare Quacks Low Income Building Trust Sporadic

Author:Jacqueline Novogratz

“When everything is added up, the frequent blows weighted against the sporadic triumphs, this is I have to say not just a vocation, it's a great gift. But you also know this, for your work, for your passion, every day is a rededication. Painters, dancers, actors, writers, filmmakers. It's the same for all of you, all of us. Every step is a first step. Every brush stroke is a test. Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. So, let the learning continue.”

Knows Firsts School Passion Actors Steps Lessons Scene Shots Tests Blow Painter Triumph Filmmaker Dancer First Steps Strokes Brushes Vocation Every Step Great Gifts Sporadic Brush Strokes

Author:Martin Scorsese

“Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know, I've written a whole song in an hour.”

Knows Writing Whole Song Next Hours Written Down And Pops Sporadic

Author:Eminem

“Small things done consistently, though undramatic, yield more than the large and sporadic.”

Done Yield Consistently Small Things Things Done Sporadic

Author:Stephen Mansfield

“I went to a lot of different high schools. I had quite a sporadic schooling experience. I went to school in England briefly, to boarding school, and I went to a few different ones in Australia as well. I'm really lucky! I have friends in most countries.”

Wells Different Country School Lucky High School England Australia Schooling Sporadic

Author:Alice Englert