Huston Smith Quotes
The goal of spiritual life is not altered states, but altered traits.
Huston Smith
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During a game, it comes down to your mind - the pressure. There are loads of other aspects, too. Many people say taking penalties is easy, but when you're stood over one, that's not the case. It's in no way easy. The goal really does become a lot smaller.
Francesco Totti
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I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.
Rafael Nadal
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Once you are satisfied with your goal, it is the real happiness.
Saina Nehwal
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My only goal as a comedian was to stomp the life out of the model-minority myth.
Eddie Huang
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Being a gentleman is a worthy goal.
Orlando Bloom
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It is natural for us, as human beings, to look forward. Our eyes naturally look ahead. In this sense, we are made for moving toward a goal.
Daisaku Ikeda
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I played a lot of football, and I was a goalkeeper, but I didn't really like playing in goal.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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I'd played some very good games, at Manchester United, at Tottenham Hotspur, but they'd lacked a goal. There've been times when I could have scored myself, but I've played a pass to a team-mate instead.
Eden Hazard
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Ignoring all prejudices of caste, creed, class, color, sex, or race, a swami follows the precepts of human brotherhood. His goal is absolute unity with Spirit.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
Gary Ryan Blair
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After the failure in '92, my goal was to be a good pole vaulter. I used that as motivation.
Dan O'Brien
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I've missed out on a huge goal but the desire is still there.
Ian Thorpe
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One of my guiding principles is don't do anything that other people are doing. Always do something a little different if you can. The concept is that if you do it a little differently there is a greater potential for reward than if you the same thing that other people are doing. I think that this kind of goal for one's work, having obviously the maximum risk, would have the maximum reward no matter what the field may be.
Seymour Cray
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You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.
Saint Augustine
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[On Nijinksy:] Ah, he took my breath away! The body that man had, the controlled power, the iron fragility. He was a note of music. He was dance!
Dagmar Godowsky
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Birds fly and fish swim and I do this.
B.J. Penn
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Things didn't quite work out like we wanted them too, but... we still have you, and you still have us.
Dawn Staley
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The goal of spiritual life is not altered states, but altered traits.
Huston Smith
