#striving

In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures. ↗

— Edward de Bono

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The writers that I aspire to, like Joni Mitchell and Randy Newman, they'll tell you that the work gets harder, not easier. And they set that bar for us where we're always striving to do something better than the last time, whether it's the next song or just the next line. ↗

— Christopher Cross

#aspire #bar #better #easier #gets

Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top. ↗

— Winston Graham

#climbing #comma #ever #find #gaining

China is going to be one of Avon's largest market opportunities. It has a large geographic expanse, with hundreds of thousands of women in small villages really striving to make an earnings opportunity for themselves. ↗

— Andrea Jung

#china #earnings #expanse #geographic #going

The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#fellow #fellow man #man #oneself #prayer

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. ↗

— Zhuangzi

#happiness #striving

I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued. ↗

— Carolyn Wells

#am #crowned #discarded #discontinued #efforts

Just remember, you are not alone, in fact you are in a very common place with millions of others. We need to help each other and keep striving to reach our goals. ↗

— Mike Moreno

#common #each #fact #goals #help

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

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After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land. ↗

— Barack Obama

#care #century #debate #health #health care