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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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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My goal is to give young girls confidence in this world so they can be more like men in the decision-making process.
Jackee Harry
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All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
Orison Swett Marden
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Societies to be integrated politically through an ideology are typically planned with a concern for the “output” of specifíc, politically desirable effects. For example, planning takes place with an eye to the goals of pow er politics or today especially with an eye to the goals of economic development. Such societies favor goal programs. Goal programs can be meaningful and successful only if the input of the political system can be varied and selected in conformity with the desired results— that is, only if the political system is relatively free to determine what kinds of information will influence it. The social expectations, demands, and conditions of political support must then be regulated ideologically, as soon as they are loosened from the unchanging bonds of tradition through the process of civilization and freed for a greater mobility. “Public Opinión” must be regulated in such a way that the dominance of ideological values and goals is not put into question and that there is only a technical and instrumental discussion about the best means by which to realize them.
Niklas Luhmann
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. . . black women . . . are trained from childhood to become workers, and expect to be financially self-supporting for most of their lives. They know they will have to work, whether they are married or single; work to them, unlike to white women, is not a liberating goal, but rather an imposed lifelong necessity.
Gerda Lerner
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There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life.
Karen Kain
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Anger is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces.
Seneca the Younger
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The goal of spiritual life is not altered states, but altered traits.
Huston Smith
