What little wilderness remains displays the patterns we must return to, if our species and as many others as now remain are… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
Worry is the product of feverish imagination working under the stimulus of desires... It is a necessary resultant of attachment to the… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
Total relaxation is the ultimate. That's the moment when one becomes a buddha. That is the moment of realization, enlightenment, christ-consciousness. You… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
. . . persist in that invocation until the unity of the world is subsumed for you in a single sphere, so… — Ibn Ata Allah Copy Share Image
It is out of fashion in these days to look backward rather than forward. About the only American given to it is… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use.… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
If anyone can refute me-show me I'm making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective-I'l l gladly change. It's… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
Yes, she doesn't really look like either of us, does she? Perhaps she's a girl who's fallen madly in love with me… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The people who live the life of their dreams take risks. And on top of that, they persist. And on top of… — Mastin Kipp Copy Share Image
There is no upper limit to what individuals are capable of doing with their minds. There is no age limit that bars… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Although the formulations of science now offer the most advanced knowledge of nature, men continue to use obsolete forms of thought long… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
No one can know how long this dumbing-down of American religion will persist. But so long as it does, citizens should probably… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to… — Albert Memmi Copy Share Image
There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
As long as hierarchy persists, as long as domination organises humanity around a system of elites, the project of dominating nature will… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
It's naive and even irresponsible for a grownup today to get her or his information about foreign policy and war and peace… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
Poverty persists, essentially, because the people at the bottom - the bottom quarter and also the bottom half - see the gains… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
For me, the subtlety of black and white inspires the imagination of the individual viewer to complete the picture in the mind's… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
“The thought that you will become a master in something after the first attempt is neither here nor there. You don't get… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, you have to be yourself, you have to say and stand for what you believe in,… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Great leaders inspire. They maintain a hopeful attitude, even in the face of discouraging setbacks, constant criticism and abundant opposition. People don't… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Now that Mandela has been released from prison we can all admit what has been apparent, that he is not a Tembu… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
I have a dream," he said slowly. "I persist in dreaming it, although it has often seemed to me that it could… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying to change… — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
[Do not] overburden yourself with rules of devotion, but persist in doing well those you have, your daily actions, your work; in… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
As winter weather settles in around the country, millions of American families are facing skyrocketing home heating prices with even greater impact… — Russ Carnahan Copy Share Image
The paradox in China is that while some things change very rapidly, others don't. The appearance of its cities may be entirely… — Sze Tsung Leong Copy Share Image
The urgency to mate persists in all people as in all other mammals because of the evolutionary drive to continue the species,… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
The Christian is not free to do what the Bible forbids. Christian freedom does not entail the right to fornicate or to… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
Reincarnation ... makes life what it is intended to be -- a glorious adventure in which victory is absolutely sure to be… — Shaw Desmond Copy Share Image
Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Great strategy, not executed, can't possibly have any effect on performance because it doesn't actually affect anything. It's like planning for a… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Superior leaders are willing to admit a mistake and cut their losses. Be willing to admit that you've changed your mind. Don't… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Persistence is probably the single most common quality of high achievers. They simply refuse to give up. They longer you hang in… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
Poverty arises and persists where corruption is endemic and enterprise is stifled, where basic fairness provided by the rule of law is… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image