Quotes 101 till 120 of 197.
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No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. Yet the most successful result of the most virtuous heroism is never without its alloy.
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Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.
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Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything else the pleasure of its autonomous intellect, to which others must bow.
On War (1832) -
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
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Obviously there are some organizations that go out on the street and say we want an end to the capitalist system. But obviously that is not going to happen as a result of just assuming that stance.
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One could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.
The Sociological Imagination (1959) P. 31, commenting on the verbosity of the chief wo -
One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.
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Only the skilled can judge the skilfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.
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Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.
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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
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Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology.
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Outcome is simply the final score: Who won the game; what numbers came up in a roll of the dice; how high did a stock go. Outcome is the result, regardless of the method used to achieve it. It is not controllable.
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Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so advantageous to go to a place that you already have a feel for, a literal and spiritual familiarity.
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Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.
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Prayerless people cut themselves off from God's peace and from his prevailing power, and a common result is that they feel overwhelmed, overrun, beaten down, pushed around, and defeated by a world operating with a take-no-prisoners approach.
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Realizing that our actions, feelings and behavior are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality.
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Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.
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Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will all be judged by only one thing - the result.
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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.
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Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
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