Quotes with high-performing

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  • Carl Gustav Jung There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his great gifts... the human element is frequently bled for the benefit of the creative element.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Colonel Muhammar Qaddafi There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights.
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  • Benjamin Harrison There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.
    State of the Union Addresses of Benjamin Harrison
    Benjamin Harrison
    American politician and lawyer (1833 - 1901)
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  • Boyd Holbrook There was no theater in my high school. I think even our art program was cut - it was so bad. I didn't even know that was a possibility in college or in high school; I hadn't even thought of it. It was pretty negligent. My father has run a bulldozer all of his life, and my mom is in real estate.
    Boyd Holbrook
    American actor and model
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  • Bill Medley There were moments that Bobby and I would come offstage after performing in front of 20,000 people and say, 'Wow, how did that happen?' It's been a blessed life.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Ben Roethlisberger There will always be hard times. Use adversity to fuel your fire. In high school, I wanted to play quarterback but couldn't until I was a senior. I played wide receiver instead, and this ultimately helped me because I learned more about the game.
    Ben Roethlisberger
    American football player (1982 - )
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  • James Russell Lowell They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Barney Frank This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • A. P. Herbert This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade.
    A. P. Herbert
    English humorist, novelist and playwright (1890 - 1971)
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  • Abraham Cowley This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Alexis Carrel Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • Dhammapada Those who have high thoughts are ever striving; they are not happy to remain in the same place. Like swans that leave their lake and rise into the air, they leave their home and fly for a higher home.
    Dhammapada
    collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form
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  • Queen Elizabeth I Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with your loves. And though you have had, and may have, many mightier and wiser princes sitting in this seat; yet you never had, nor shall have any that will love you better.
    Queen Elizabeth I
    Queen of England and Ireland (1533 - 1603)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Anatole France To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • John Oxenham To every man there openeth A way, and ways, and a way. And the high soul climbs the high way, And the low soul gropes the low: And in between, on the misty flats, The rest drift to and fro. But to every man there openeth A high way and a low, And every man decideth. The way his soul shall go.
    John Oxenham
    English journalist, writer and poet (ps. of William Arthur Dunkerley) (1852 - 1941)
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  • A. E. Housman To-day, the road all runners come,
    Shoulder-high, we bring you home,
    And set you at your threshold down,
    Townsman of a stiller town.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 19 (To an Athlete Dying Young), st. 2
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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