#deter

The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one's own accord - it feels great - but to be taught often leaves a feeling of inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in order for one to fully develop. ↗

— Criss Jami

#barrier #determination #development #feelings #help

Consular offices make no attempt to determine whether the person obtaining the card is legally in the United States. In fact, the only people who need these cards are illegal immigrants, criminals and terrorists. Consular cards also are easily forged. ↗

— Elton Gallegly

#attempt #card #cards #consular #criminals

All forces are a deterrent to and would be employed in a general war. Most of our forces could be employed in a limited war, if required. ↗

— Thomas S. Gates, Jr.

#deterrent #employed #forces #general #limited

The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost. ↗

— Michael Gerber

#business people #cost #determined #get #greatest

We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

#another #been #being #determine #genes

There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish. ↗

— Samuel Gompers

#achieve #aspire #denied #determined #endured

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip. ↗

— Robert Greene

#determine #dispose #fall #gods #lip

I don't give up. That makes me incredibly resilient or maybe stupid or just plain stubborn. Whichever... ↗

— Destiny Booze

#motivational #resilient #motivational

They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them. ↗

— Joyce Grenfell

#deteriorate #entirely #feels #get #hope

Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected. ↗

— Edmond Halley

#appear #determining #difficult #distance #earth