Inspirational Determination Quotes to Keep You Focused - page 57

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.
The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.
 Edsger Dijkstra
Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward
Sex education should be 'relationship education', focusing on how to achieve long-term commitment.
 Mal Fletcher
Total commitment. You know, the idea of discovering something that, for all intents and purposes, goes against your abilities, and yet still deciding to do it anyway. That takes guts, you know?
There is a strong religious commitment to the sanctity of human life, but, paradoxically, some of the most fervent protectors of microscopic stem cells are the most ardent proponents of the death penalty.
When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible.
 Nido R Qubein
Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
And it is crucial of course that chief constables are able to make decisions within their budgets about how they deploy their police officers to the greatest effect to ensure that they're able to do the job that the public want them to do.
 Theresa May
Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.
[There will be movement toward] behavioral economics... [which] involves study of those aspects of men\'s images, or cognitive and affective structures that are more relevant to economic decisions.
[There will be movement toward] behavioral economics... [which] involves study of those aspects of men's images, or cognitive and affective structures that are more relevant to economic decisions.
 Kenneth E. Boulding
Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone, but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing, and God everything.
 Ignatius of Loyola
Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.
I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.
 Sam Taylor-Wood
To die for others is the highest purpose a person may achieve.
 Christopher Golden
If you accept that human beings are difficult to change, and embrace (rather than curse) the uniqueness that everyone brings to the table, you’ll navigate the world with more bliss and effectiveness. And make better decisions, too.
The most important thing is that the work has to be solid [in terms of its formal structure] and that the work accomplishes what it strives to achieve. It has to be genuine - not mannered or stylistically driven.
 Wayne Thiebaud
Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew.
In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth.
 Roland Allen
To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.
To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.
 Sugar Ray Robinson
Justice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe — not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh things. Justice is different from violence and retribution; it requires complex accounting.