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Letter "M" » major
«The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Ability
| Keywords:
component, components, major, mental ability, present moment, wellness
«The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| About:
Errors
| Keywords:
difference, get at, goes, go wrong, impossible, major, majors, might, out to, possibly, repair, repairing, repairs, repair to, the majors, turns, usually
«Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.»
Author: Edward Steichen
| About:
Photography
| Keywords:
confusion, explaining, gamut, human face, inherited, inheriting, inherits, major, photography, records, skies, written record
«There are those of us who are always about to live. We are waiting until things change, until there is more time, until we are less tired, until we get a promotion, until we settle down / until, until, until. It always seems as if there is some major event that must occur in our lives before we begin living.»
«The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you are going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes as you do wins. In order for somebody to win an important, major fight 100 years hence, a lot of other people have got to be willing - for the sheer fun and joy of it - to go right ahead and fight, knowing you're going to lose. You mustn't feel like a martyr. You've got to enjoy it.»
«The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.»
Author: Iris Murdoch
(Novelist, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
absolute, human body, indifference, major, mysteries, particular, substitutes, The Absolute, yearning, yearnings
«Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.»
Author: Michael Korda
| About:
Success
| Keywords:
analysis, final, Final Analysis, in the final analysis, major, scale, take on
«The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.»
Author: Jim Rohn
(Author, Speaker)
| About:
Goals
| Keywords:
accomplish, goal, Goal setting, greater, major, majors, setting, settings, Set Your Goals, the majors, value
«The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work. Many of those who fail most ignominiously do enough to achieve grand success but they labor haphazardly at whatever they are assigned, building up with one hand to tear down with the other. They do not grasp circumstances and change them into opportunities. They have no faculty for turning honest defeats into telling victories. With ability enough and ample time, the major ingredients of success, they are forever throwing back and forth an empty shuttle and the real web of their life is never woven.»
Author: Og Mandino
(Essayist, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
ample, assign, assigned, assigning, assigns, back and forth, back down, building up, change hands, consist, defeats, faculty, grand, grasp, hands down, hand down, haphazardly, ignominiously, ingredients, intelligent life, major, shuttle, tear, tearing down, tear down, telling, throwing, turning, turn down, victories, web, woven
«The major contribution of Protestant thought to the knowledge of mankind is its massive proof that God is a bore»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
bore, contribution, major, massive, proof, Protestant, Protestants, The Knowledge
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