Leon Trotsky Quotes

The Soviet State does not need either illusions or camouflage. It can claim only that world authority which is confirmed by the facts.

Leon Trotsky

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• Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Free
  • Wish
  • Crazy

• To make headway, improve your head.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Make
  • Head
  • Improve

• Usually if I find a film that's challenging, that I'm intrigued by, I want to watch it again knowing what the ending is. I found that with something like 'The Godfather Part II.' I think it took me three watches to fully experience it in the way it was intended.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Experience
  • Watches
  • Ending

• I don't want to play games with anybody, to our fans, to Pierre Lacroix, or any other NHL team that might have interest in me.

  

  Patrick Roy
  • Want
  • Team
  • Interest

• I have always wanted an Olympic medal. I always wanted to see India's national flag going up at the podium.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Up
  • Always
  • See

• When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Man
  • Trust
  • Luck

• I used to pay attention to the clouds in the sky.. .I paid close attention for a month to see if they ever repeated. They don't repeat. And I don't think life does either. It's continually various. That's the truth about life.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Attention

• Meeting the person you are going to be playing is very unique.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Unique
  • Persons
  • Meetings

• I do not love the sea. The look of it is disquieting. There is something in the very sound of it that stirs the premonition felt while we listen to noble music; we become inexplicably troubled.

  

  Henry Major Tomlinson
  • Music
  • Sea
  • Looks

• I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Success
  • Desire
  • Failure

• Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

  

  Leon Uris
  • Time
  • World
  • Friends

• Millennials aren't looking for a hipper Christianity.

  

  Rachel Grace Held
  • Christianity
  • Millennials

• The Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Freedom
  • Doubt

• Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Said
  • Absolute
  • Personification

• Everybody in mathematics had given up for 100 years or 200 years the idea that you could from pictures, from looking at pictures, find new ideas. That was the case long ago in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, in later periods, but then mathematicians had become very abstract.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Up
  • Long
  • Age

• Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.

  

  Neil Simon
  • Passion
  • Talent
  • Succeed

• Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.

  

  Tony Snow
  • Treasures
  • Liberty
  • Authority

• Keep this little canvas, it is a promise for the future. When I say 'keep this canvas,' I mean for the influence on yourself. When one does a good thing, it's well to keep it to show how foolish we are at other times.

  

  Charles Webster Hawthorne
  • Future
  • Yourself
  • Promise

• a letter, by its arrival, defrauds us of a whole secret region of our existence, the only region indeed in which the true pleasure of life may be tasted, the region of imagination, creative and protean, the clouds and beautiful shapes of whose heaven are destroyed by the wind of reality.

  

  Vita Sackville-West
  • Beautiful
  • Reality
  • Imagination

• This knight so bold— And o’er his heart a shadow— Fell as he found No spot of ground That looked like Eldorado. And, as his strength Failed him at length, He met a pilgrim shadow— ‘Shadow,’ said he, ‘Where can it be— This land of Eldorado?’ ‘Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride,’ The shade replied,— ‘If you seek for Eldorado!

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Shadow
  • Bold
  • Knight

• The Soviet State does not need either illusions or camouflage. It can claim only that world authority which is confirmed by the facts.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Authority
  • Illusions
  • Camouflage