#resolute

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient. ↗

— Eugene S. Wilson

#intelligence #learning #obstacles #quest #resolute

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#chatter #discipline #education #feed #first

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#condition #does #eternal #good #high

New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated our precise circumstances. How he was possible, I still don't understand; but there isn't a day I'm not grateful that he speaks to me in my own language. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#aides #anticipated #chambers #circumstances #day

On foreign policy, President Obama has kept our nation safe from terrorism and restored our standing in the world. When it comes to one of our closest allies - Israel - President Obama has been resolute. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#been #closest #comes #foreign #foreign policy

I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media. ↗

— Milton Babbitt

#dare #electronic #electronic media #eventual #himself

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it. ↗

— John Ruskin

#doing #great #great thing #like #people

It is the responsibility of Afghanistan's new government to gain better control over the country's administration and to resolutely fight the drug trade and corruption. ↗

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#afghanistan #better #control #corruption #country

To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible. ↗

— Robert Southey

#doing #first #first step #impossible #mind

I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#bit #fact #forwards #i #like