#greater

Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind. ↗

— Bridget Riley

#attention #behind #consciousness #focus #freedom

If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges. ↗

— Pat Riley

#attitude #best #challenges #constantly #effort

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#greater #life #purpose #things

I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves. ↗

— Jay Roach

#addiction #am #control #dysfunctional #feeling

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics? ↗

— Pat Robertson

#folly #fool #greater #history #human

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#always #far #get #goal #greater

An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. ↗

— Ida Pauline Rolf

#effective #greater #human #human being #parts

But you take a four-year state college, with a broader range of admission, and what happens during those four years may be an even greater value-added educational experience. I don't know. ↗

— Roy Romer

#broader #college #during #educational #even

Mitt doesn't like to talk about how he has helped others because he sees it as a privilege, not a political talking point. And we're no different than the millions of Americans who quietly help their neighbors, their churches and their communities. They don't do it so that other will think more of them. They do it because there is no greater joy. ↗

— Ann Romney

#because #churches #communities #different #greater

Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted, compassion for the needy and the sick, or mercy for the child waiting to be born, there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#born #cause #child #christian #compassion