Quotes with sustained

  • Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
  • Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.
  • The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell. It gave him what he needed to live. The more time he spent in a cell, the stronger he would get. Everybody knew who he was now.

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  • Hermann Hesse Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • Barbara Kruger All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
    Barbara Kruger
    American artist (1945 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon Border strengthening is effective, but not if done in isolation. We also need to give priority to establishing public institutions that deliver a sustained level of security and justice for citizens. Border security can never come at the expense of migrants' rights. Nor can it be used to legitimize inhumane treatment.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Adolf Hitler By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Paul J. Meyer Construct your Determination with Sustained Effort, Controlled Attention, and Concentrated Energy. opportunities never come to those who wait... they are captured by those who dare to attack.
    Paul J. Meyer
    American businessman and business consultant (1928 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Faith may be relied upon to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Reinhold Niebuhr Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
    Reinhold Niebuhr
    American theologist, historian (1892 - 1971)
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  • Erik H. Erikson Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.
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  • Assata Shakur I think that in order to struggle you have to be creative. In my life, creativity has been something that has sustained me; it awoke my spiritual struggle.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Ben Bernanke Indeed, in general, healthy investment returns cannot be sustained in a weak economy, and of course it is difficult to save for retirement or other goals without the income from a job.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Philip Roth Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an enigmatic thing.
    The Human Stain (2000)
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Abu Bakar Bashir Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.
    Abu Bakar Bashir
    Indonesian Muslim cleric (1938 - )
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  • Voltaire No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • J.M. Coetzee Once I lived in time as a fish in water, breathing it, drinking it, sustained by it. Now I kill time and time kills me.
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    J.M. Coetzee
    South African-born Australian novelist (1940 - )
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Arthur Ashe Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.
    Arthur Ashe
    Robert Ashe Jr (1943 - 1993)
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  • Betty Friedan Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework - an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • George Gilder Surely women's liberation is a most unpromising panacea. But the movement is working politically, because our sexuality is so confused, our masculinity so uncertain, and our families so beleaguered that no one knows what they are for or how they are sustained.
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  • Don Delillo The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell. It gave him what he needed to live. The more time he spent in a cell, the stronger he would get. Everybody knew who he was now.
    Don Delillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Ben Bernanke The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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