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• Mentally prepare ourselves for excellence...block out the noise of everyday distractions and tap into the quietness of meaningful focus, intent and a winning mindset.

  Robert Cheeke

  Block, Winning, Focus

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• What we have to remember is that not everything is under our control. If people are free in any meaningful sense of the word, that means they are at liberty to foul up their lives as much as make something grand of them. That's a gamble we all take. That's the risk of liberty. Nobody wants others to screw up their lives, but each must be free to do so for themselves.

  Joel Miller

  People, Risk, Liberty

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• I think that there have been a number of situations in which you've seen this administration intervene in a meaningful way, that has substantially furthered American interests and substantially improved the, uh, you know, the - the tranquility of the global community.

  Josh Earnest

  Thinking, Numbers, Community

  "Is the White House underestimating global threats?". "The Five" with Eric Bolling, www.foxnews.com. August 11, 2014.

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• Tomorrow everybody - or practically everybody - will have had the education of the upper class of yesterday, and will expect equivalent opportunities. That is why we face the problem of making every kind of job meaningful and capable of satisfying every educated man.

  Peter Drucker

  Empleo, Oportunidad, Hombres

  "Hitos del mañana: Un informe sobre el nuevo mundo 'posmoderno'". Libro de Peter F. Drucker, 1959.

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• Sören Kierkegaard tiene otra respuesta: la existencia humana es posible como existencia no en la desesperación, como existencia no en la tragedia; es posible como existencia en la fe... La fe es la creencia de que en Dios lo imposible es posible, que en Él el tiempo y la eternidad son uno, que tanto la vida como la muerte tienen sentido.

  Peter Drucker

  Life And Death, Tragedy, Despair

  "The Ecological Vision: Reflections on the American Condition". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1993.

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• I am willing to believe that my unobtainable sixty seconds within a sponge or a flatworm might not reveal any mental acuity that I would care to call consciousness. But I am also confident [...] that vultures and sloths, as close evolutionary relatives with the same basic set of organs, lie on our side of any meaningful (and necessarily fuzzy) border and that we are therefore not mistaken when we look them in the eye and see a glimmer of emotional and conceptual affinity.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Lying, Believe, Eye

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• Cuando el viento lanza un grito que tiene sentido para los oídos humanos, es más sencillo creer que el viento comparte con nosotros alguna parte de la emoción del Ser que los misterios del murmullo creciente de un huracán no se reducen más que a la colisión aleatoria de moléculas insensatas.

  Norman Mailer

  Believe, Wind, Hurricanes

  Norman Mailer (1992). "Advertisements for Myself", p.520, Harvard University Press

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• The real issue is not whether baking biscuits is meaningful, but the extent to which the activity can seem to be so after it has been continuously stretched and subdivided across five thousand lives.

  Alain de Botton

  Real, Issues, Baking

  "Los placeres y las penas del trabajo". Libro de Alain de Botton, 2008.

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• He [Johnny Cash] always wanted to use his music to lift other people up, to say no matter how much trouble, there's hope. That was always his message in his songs. That's why he and [Bob] Dylan bonded so much, because they were both trying to do something meaningful.

  Robert Hilburn

  Song, People, Trying

  Fuente: www.esquire.com

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• Test scores aren't perfect, but having a test score for math or reading or other things that we can objectively measure is a meaningful component that makes a lot of sense.

  Bill Gates

  Reading, Math, Perfect

  "Bill Gates Seeks Formula for Better Teachers". Interview with Stephanie Banchero, www.wsj.com. March 22, 2011.

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• You can't make good decisions that are going to be meaningful, productive, when you lose control, and you have to maintain mental control, emotional control and to be able to perform physically up to your own particular level of competency; you have to keep your emotions under control.

  John Wooden

  Emotional, Decision, Levels

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• What we call stress is just extension of being busy without meaning. When you do things that are not meaningful to you, just to get the sense of completion, just to feel like you got something done, your spirit feels empty. So, the most important thing for people to realize is that you have to control the flow of information in your life.

  Tony Robbins

  Stress, People, Important

  Fuente: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Create quality art.... meaningful, passionate and high quality work! If it's not meaningful to you, how can you expect it to be meaningful to anyone else?

  Cory Trepanier

  Art, Quality, Passionate

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• The search for a meaningful painting subject is a search for ourselves.

  Robert Reynolds

  Painting, Subjects

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• It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.

  Philip Pearlstein

  Art, Differences, Lines

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• Mientras creas que lo que haces tiene sentido, podrás superar el miedo y el agotamiento y dar el siguiente paso.

  Arlene Blum

  Believe, Cutting, Long

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• Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.

  Aldous Huxley

  Country, Children, Taught

  "Brave New World Revisited". Book by Aldous Huxley, Chapter 11 (p. 106), 1958.

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• [El paseo no tiene sustancia intrínseca, no es más que el nombre que se da al alma que se devora a sí misma. Cuando esa repugnante perversión del amor ha dado su fruto, tiene otro nombre más significativo y pesado. Lo llamamos odio.

  Georges Bernanos

  Names, Hatred, Soul

  Georges Bernanos (1999). “The Impostor”, p.156, U of Nebraska Press

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• Art is the principal way in which the human mind has tried to remake the world in a way that makes sense. The carefully edited, slow-motion, action replay of a rugby tackle, a car crash or a sex act has more significance than the original event. Thanks to virtual reality, we will soon be moving into a world where a heightened super-reality will consist entirely of action replays, and reality will therefore be all the more rich and meaningful.

  J. G. Ballard

  Art, Sex, Moving

  "JG Ballard: Theatre of Cruelty". Interview with Jean-Paul Coillard, www.jgballard.ca. 1998.

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• The idea of human rights and freedoms must be an integral part of any meaningful world order. Yet, I think it must be anchored in a different place, and in a different way, than has been the case so far. If it is to be more than just a slogan mocked by half the world, it cannot be expressed in the language of a departing era, and it must not be mere froth floating on the subsiding waters of faith in a purely scientific relationship to the world.

  Vaclav Havel

  Thinking, Rights, Order

  Vaclav Havel's Liberty Medal acceptance speech at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, www.aps.org. October 4, 1994.

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• Sin la eperiencia constantemente viva y articulada del absurdo, no habría razón para intentar hacer algo con sentido. Y al contrario, ¿cómo se puede experimentar el propio absurdo si no se busca constantemente el sentido?

  Vaclav Havel

  Would Be, Reason, Absurdity

  "Perturbar la paz: Una conversación con Karel Hvizdala". Libro de Vaclav Havel traducido por Paul Wilson (Capítulo 5: La política de la esperanza, p. 114), 1990.

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• The woe of mortality makes humans God-like. It is because we know that we must die that we are so busy making life. It is because we are aware of mortality that we preserve the past and create the future. Mortality is ours without asking--but immortality is something we must build ourselves. Immortality is not a mere absence of death; it is defiance and denial of death. It is 'meaningful' only because there is death, that implacable reality which is to be defied.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Past, Reality, Asking

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• El intento de defender juicios de valor sólo tiene sentido si se parte de la creencia en la validez de los valores. Sin embargo, juzgar la validez de tales valores es una cuestión de fe .

  Max Weber

  Judging, Matter, Belief

  Max Weber (2015). "Sobre la metodología de las ciencias sociales", p.81, Lulu Press, Inc.

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• La ira no es ni legítima ni ilegítima, ni significativa ni inútil. La ira simplemente es. Preguntarse: "¿Es legítima mi ira?" es como preguntarse: "¿Tengo derecho a tener sed? Después de todo, acabo de beber un vaso de agua hace quince minutos. Seguramente mi sed no es legítima. Además, ¿qué sentido tiene tener sed si ahora no puedo beber nada?". La ira es algo que sentimos. Existe por una razón y siempre merece nuestro respeto y atención. Todos tenemos derecho a todo lo que sentimos... y, desde luego, nuestra ira no es una excepción.

  Harriet Lerner

  Anger, Glasses, Water

  Facebook post by Harriet Lerner from nov 23, 2015

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• a large percentage of bright young men and women locate the impetus behind their career choice in the belief that they are fundamentally different from the common run of man, unique and in certain crucial ways superior, more as it were central, meaningful - what else could explain the fact that they themselves have been at the exact center of all they've experienced for the whole 20 years of their conscious lives? - and that they can and will make a difference in their chosen field simply by the fact of their unique and central presence to it...

  David Foster Wallace

  Running, Unique, Men

  "Oblivion: Stories (Mister Squishy)". Book by David Foster Wallace, June 8, 2004.

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