Quotes of: Positive-results Keyword

You need to be doing fewer things for effect instead of doing more things with side effects

The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.

Orthodoxy

Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.

Our Knowledge of the External World

What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?

Philosophical Dictionary

A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural disasters that re-shape the spirit.

The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Progress is a natural result of staying focused on the process of doing anything.

The Practicing Mind: Bringing Discipline and Focus into Your Life

Promises, like gardens need weeding from time to time to produce healthy results.

Pay Me What I'm Worth

I want to type one of my books into a free online translation website, and convert it from English to German and then publish the results as an exercise in the absurd.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

The result may be important but it’s not the actual measure. The measure is the feeling you have made contact with something.

The Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person's Path Through Depression

The words are meaningless except in terms of feeling. Does anyone act as the result of thought or does feeling stimulate action and sometimes thought implement it.

The Winter of Our Discontent

We are to be generous not just in the results of our work, but also IN our work.

What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done

Just saying an intention and leaving it at that will not necessarily result in an outcome, if there is a stronger, more primal belief behind the scenes.

A Woman's Truth: A Life Truly Worth Living

That the Negroes were enslaved more than other races, and on a large scale, is evidently a result of their being, in contrast to other races, inferior in intelligence - which, however, does not justify such slavery

On The Will In Nature

Everywhere where detestable Islam has not yet driven out the ancient, profound religions of humanity with fire and sword, my ascetic results would have to fear the reproach of being trivial

On The Will In Nature

There is a pleasure a bee takes in collecting nectar and piling it into a hive. It knows well that the chores involved in such a task will yield sweet results.

The Wisdom Huntress: Anthology of Thoughts and Narrations

Feeling powerless is the result of yielding to fearful thinking.

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

Attempting to contain the infinite within finite symbolism of language may result in scholarship, but it will not produce devotion. (110)

The Yoga of Spiritual Devotion A Modern Translation of the Narada Bhakti Sutras

The word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water. (Bistami) Pg. 128

The Years of Rice and Salt

The true tragedy in most people’s lives is that they are far better than they imagine themselves to be and, as a result, end up being much less than they might be.

Zen Mentoring: Forty Meditations

I've learnt that I've had the best results from just trying to be me, trying to make a movie or TV show I want to see or write a script I want to read, and that's really all I can offer - being authentic.

Dax Shepard

I cannot help but think that great results would have been obtained had my views been thought better of; yet I am much inclined to accept the present condition as for the best.

James Longstreet