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«Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.»
Author: Cecil B. De Mille
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Dedication,
Ideals
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aims, by fits and starts, dedication, fits, steadily, unswervingly
«In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt.»
Author: George B. Leonard
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constituted, game theory, in terms of, maximize, outcome, steadily
«The age looks steadily to the redressing of wrong, to the righting of every form of error and injustice; and a tireless and prying philanthropy, which is almost omniscient, is one of the most hopeful characteristics of the time.»
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
(Founder)
| About:
Age
| Keywords:
characteristics, hopeful, omniscient, philanthropy, pried, pry, prying, redress, redressed, redressing, righting, steadily, tireless
«It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.»
Author: Patrick Stewart
(Actor)
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backward, backward and forward, march, on that, or else, steadily, steps, step forward, tiny
«If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.»
Author: Robert Quillen
| About:
Genius
| Keywords:
accurately, call attention, chiefly, steadily, surveyed, till we
«I keep following this sort of hidden river of my life, you know, whatever the topic or impulse which comes, I follow it along trustingly. And I don't have any sense of its coming to a kind of crescendo, or of its petering out either. It is just going steadily along.»
«Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
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encroach, encroached, encroaches, encroaching, give way, steadily
«The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
controlling, German, probity, rests, sincerity, sprightliness, steadily, superficial, the English, the French
«If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life - if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the pat»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
incumbent, incumbents, incumbent on, pat, pats, patting, steadily
«It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to give in, and the sense of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
| Keywords:
bubbles, creep, creep in, give in, impending, keep quiet, mentioning, pleasantly, quiets, reference, resigned, steadily
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