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ambition belief transcendence
Richard Rorty My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have... an ambition of transcendence.
ambition ego vision
Werner Herzog Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision.
ambition frustration men
Samuel Fuller Ninety-five per cent of films are born of frustration, of self despair, of ambition for survival, for money, for fattening bank accounts. Five per cent, maybe less, are made because a man has an idea, an idea which he must express.
ambition thinking people
Wangari Maathai There will always be people who think that you have ambitions.
ambition home limits
Wangari Maathai When I went back home, I was constantly being reminded, I'm an African woman, and so there are certain things I shouldn't do, certain ambitions that I should not entertain. That was a problem for me because I had never thought of myself as an African woman, never thought of myself as a woman to begin with. For me the limit was my capacity, my capability.
ambition men intelligent
W. H. Auden Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.
ambition self flames
William Congreve Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined; A sickly flame, which if not fed expires; And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires.
ambition important want
Tory Burch Women have to embrace ambition if they want to. I had a lot of trouble taking compliments in the beginning, and it's really important for women to embrace their title.
men giving perfect
Plato The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.
men pray pull
Gerald Johnson I think we'll pull through this, ... Real Men Pray Everyday.
men
Jane Fonda I was a chameleon, the woman men wanted me to be.
men money
Raquel Cassidy I went to see 'Men In Black 2.' It was just a commodity, just money being shifted.
men heaven have-faith
William Wilberforce Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.
men favors may
William Wilberforce Men of authority and influence may promote good morals. Let them in their several stations encourage virtue. Let them favor and take part in any plans which may be formed for the advancement of morality.
men joy soul
William Wilberforce Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.
men frustration frustrated
Allan Carr I'm just generally hugely frustrated, I'm a very, very frustrated man. I'm just a ball of pent-up frustration.
men sides harvard
Abbott L. Lowell There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.
self
Peter Roebuck It can be absurd, cantankerous, self-destructive and pompous, but it is never crass
self forgotten truest
Richard Paul Evans In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self.
selfishness disguise inspection
Richard Dawkins It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
selfish earth rebel
Richard Dawkins We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
selfish eye sight
Richard Dawkins Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation forthe existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of the watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.
self grace denial
Richard Baxter I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion.
self errors intuition
Ryan Hall The question I try and ask myself when I consider whether or not to train more is what is my body craving and what is my body ready to absorb? Sometimes pushing harder is not the answer. It takes self control, confidence, and intuition to know when to train and when to rest, but when in question error on the side of being over rested.
self long age
Russell Hoban Too-lateness, I realized, has nothing to do with age. It’s a relation of self to the moment. Or not, depending on the person and the moment. Perhaps there even comes a time when it’s no longer too late for anything. Perhaps, even, most times are too early for most things, and most of life has to go by before it’s time for almost anything and too late for almost nothing. Nothing to lose, the present moment to gain, the integration with long-delayed Now.
self ideas people
Russell Brand No-one really feels self-confident deep down because it's an artificial idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what you're saying, so you can drift around the world relatively anonymously: you must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from that idea that people are watching you.