Quotes of: Greatest-obstacle Keyword

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

William Osler

Some of the greatest works of theater, from Chekov's work to modern playwrights', consist of just a few people in a room with no one leaving.

Adam Rapp

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Don Herold

Historically, war journalists have embedded themselves with one side, which means the greatest threat comes from the clearly delineated enemy of that side.

Alan Huffman

The lax multiculturalism that urges Americans to accept the unacceptable from their fellow citizens is one of this nation's greatest vulnerabilities in the war on terror.

Richard Perle

That's where we start making changes From the deepest and softest. It's not the world that we needed to change It is the people who inhabit the world. It's not machines that we need to change. It is the people who use those machines. Even with people...

Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential

Many people, through diverse spiritual practices and disciplines have sought enlightenment. Various phenomena, some of them potentially quite captivating, may occur along the path of spiritual development whether it leads to true enlightenment or not...

Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential

Philo of Larisa, head of the Academy in Athens....inspired Cicero with a passion for philosophy, and in particular for the theories of Skepticism, which asserted that knowledge of the nature of things is in the nature of things unattainable. Such ide...

Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician

[...] the diversity of our opinions, consequently, does not arise from some being endowed with a larger share of reason than others, but solely from this, that we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same obj...

Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy

I am back in London in a couple of days and looking forward to Sunday. Here is what we are doing. 1. Going to see my favourite mad transgender folk singer at the Roundhouse. 2. Then I am going to feed you tapas in a little place by Mornington Crescen...

The Greatest Love Story of All Time

Think Easy, Light, Smooth, and Fast. You start with easy, because if that's all you get, that's not so bad. Then work on light. Make it efforthless, like you don't give a shit how high the hill is or how far you've got to go. When you've practiced th...

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

There are two goddesses in your heart,” he told them. “The Goddess of Wisdom and the Goddess of Wealth. Everyone thinks they need to get wealth first, and wisdom will come. So they concern themselves with chasing money. But they have it backwards...

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

But yeah, Ann [Trason] insisted, running was romantic; and no, of course her friends didn't get it because they'd never broken through. For them, running was a miserable two miles motivated solely by size 6 jeans: get on the scale, get depressed, get...

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

There is a certain proper and luxurious way of lying in bed. Confucius, that great artist of life, "never lay straight" in bed, "like a corpse", but always curled up on one side. I believe one of the greatest pleasures of life is to curl up one's leg...

The Importance Of Living

Sadly but, perhaps, not altogether unexpectedly this society has had very limited success in achieving what is supposed to be the justification for its existence-- the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest possible number of people. In so far...

King of the Castle: Choice and Responsibility in the Modern World

I beseech you, my brothers, remain faithful to the earth, and do not believe those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! Poison-mixers are they, whether they know it or not. Despisers of life are they, decaying and poisoned themselves, of whom the ...

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

The greatest challenge that exists in life, in anyone’s life, is that of sustaining a child’s fascination and love for life itself while being bombarded, infiltrated and violated by every possible reason and excuse not to do so. Ultimately, nothi...

Darrell Calkins

What about the virtue of letting others be themselves? Is this not the greatest virtue of all?

Celestial Kings and Queens

The single greatest advantage anyone can take into any battle is hope.

Darkfever

We are currently in the midst of the greatest epidemic sickness known to humanity.

Dispelling Wetiko

The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Essential Thinkers - Socrates