"Effort plus motive equals result." — P D Ouspensky
"Effort plus motive equals result."
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47 Quotes by P D Ouspensky
P D Ouspensky has 47 quotes on this site.
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The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very…
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You can understand other people only as much as you understand yourself and only on the level of your own…
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To remember oneself means the same thing as to be aware of oneself - I am. It is not a…
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Man has no permanent and unchangeable I. Every thought, every mood, every desire, every sensation says "I." And in each…
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Ideas by themselves cannot produce change of being; your effort must go in the right direction, and one must correspond…
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The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious.
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When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many things that are bound to…
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Possibly the most interesting first impression of my life came from the world of dreams.
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Our ancestors were very rich and eminent people, and they left us an enormous inheritance, which we have completely forgotten,…
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I've found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that they had really heard new things: that…
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Think about death. You do not know how much time remains to you. And remember that if you do not…
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Seek the path, do not seek attainment, seek for the path within yourself. Do not expect to hear the truth…
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Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause…
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We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure…
— Julian Assange
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Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can…
— Julian Assange
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Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to…
— Chinua Achebe
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The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in…
— Charles Babbage
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I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose…
— Peter Ackroyd
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A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions.…
— Liberty Hyde Bailey
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Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work…
— James A. Baldwin
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to…
— James A. Baldwin
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Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful…
— Johnny Ball
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The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
— Roger Bannister
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