"Never confuse desire with vision. Desire has to……" — Joan D. Chittister
"Never confuse desire with vision. Desire has to do with what we want. Vision has to do with what we need."
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93 Quotes by Joan D. Chittister
Joan D. Chittister has 93 quotes on this site.
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It's possible to have too much in life. Too many clothes jade our appreciation of new ones; too much money…
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The vision of a culture lies in what becomes its major institutions, in what it remembers as its most impacting…
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We may well be the ones Proverbs warns when it reminds us: "Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value…
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Compassion makes no distinction between friends and enemies, neighbors and outsiders, compatriots and foreigners. Compassion is the gate to human…
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Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear…
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A bifurcation of loyalties that requires religious to put canon law above civil law and moral law puts us in…
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Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name…
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To be contemplative we must remove the clutter from our lives, surround ourselves with beauty, and consciously, relentlessly, persistently, give…
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Hope is not a matter of waiting for things outside of us to get better. It is about getting better…
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It is a pathetic moment in the history of the human condition when the outside world tells us who and…
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Longing is a compass that guides us through life. We may never get what we really want, that's true, but…
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In our dreams lies our unfinished work for the world.
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
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People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point…
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Forget words like 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' That will only confuse you. Just be sure your advertising is saying…
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I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.
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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
— Erma Bombeck
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Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
— Marlon Brando
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The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.
— William S. Burroughs
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Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.
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A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
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We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful…
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Do not confuse notoriety and fame with greatness. . . . For you see, greatness is a measure of one's…
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