Quotes about Sustaining

Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for. Votes: 4

Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time. Votes: 4

Sustaining growth is the century's big challenge. Votes: 3

Sustaining a loving heart, even for a moment, makes one a spiritual being. Votes: 3

Sustaining silence and circumspection are two behaviors that lead to better, healthier outcomes. They are powerful without dominating. Votes: 3

Then would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a Wedged Bear in Great Tightness. Votes: 3

Sustaining innovations are the key to consistent performance, whereas disruptive innovations are the key to dramatic changes in power. Votes: 3

Sustaining the energy and focus involved in doing a good job I think starts to - starts to gets tougher the longer you do it. Votes: 3

It's relatively easy to generate a lot of enthusiasm for Puget Sound in the short term. Sustaining the effort to clean it up is somewhat tougher. Votes: 3

Falling in love is biologically natural; sustaining love is biologically un-natural. Sustaining love requires a learned discipline. The discipline of love. The discipline of understanding our partner. (I've never heard someone say I want a divorce - my partner understands me.) Votes: 3

Sustaining faith is what sets you through those dark nights of the soul when you don't know where to go or what to do, and it seems that you can't last another day"¦but because of your faith in God, you do. Votes: 3

Writing a book is very personal. It's a very personal relationship. A book will start with something as simple as two men talking about work. That gets the fire going. Sustaining that fire is the hard work. It takes attention and empathy to hone the characters. Votes: 3

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action. Votes: 2

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music. Votes: 2

To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings. Votes: 2

Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust. Votes: 2

Ultimately, my greatest achievement is maintaining my career while sustaining a happy marriage and kids. Votes: 2

There are three types of innovations that affect jobs and capital: empowering innovations, sustaining innovations and efficiency innovations. Votes: 2

There are three types of innovations that affect jobs and capital: empowering innovations, sustaining innovations and efficiency innovations. Votes: 2

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life. Votes: 2

I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me. Votes: 2

In a healthy economy, empowering, sustaining and efficiency innovations operate in balance. A healthy economy creates and sustains more jobs before squeezing out inefficiencies. Votes: 2

The world is starving for a new spiritual truth - a truth that works in sustaining life, not a truth that brings an end to life. Votes: 2

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world. Votes: 2

I think anyone can fall in love, if you're open and you're willing, but the real test is sustaining it after all the excitement has worn off. Votes: 2

My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters. Votes: 2

But we wish to give the Jews a Homeland. Not by dragging them ruthlessly out of their sustaining soil, but rather by removing them carefully, roots and all, to a better terrain. Votes: 2

I don't have a preference between theatre and film; I like to do both. But I will say that there's something about theatre that is more nourishing and sustaining than film ever can be. Votes: 2

Israel is now sustaining a war for its own existence. A nation defending its citizens against terrorist bombings and a military and diplomatic onslaught by an array of Arab foes is practicing survival, not genocide. Votes: 2

It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action. Votes: 2

I hope for all of us that the future brings us towards evolving our consciousness. To delving deeper into our true power. To exploring more the key to sustaining our planet and our art for the better of all living things. Votes: 2

As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro. Votes: 2

The two impulses in travel are to get away from home, and the other is to pursue something - a landscape, people, an exotic place. Certainly finding a place that you like or discovering something unusual is a very sustaining thing in travel. Votes: 2

In the United States, there is a restaurant called The Outback Steakhouse, and I could survive in there for several weeks at least, sustaining myself on bloomin' onions and, I'm sure, their legitimate and very Australian cuisine. In the real Outback? I give myself about 14 minutes. Votes: 2

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes. Votes: 2

When you go to Mars, you need to have made the decision that you're there permanently. The more people we have there, the more it can become a sustaining environment. Except for very rare exceptions, the people who go to Mars shouldn't be coming back. Once you get on the surface, you're there. Votes: 2

It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships, Votes: 0

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining. Votes: 0

Enthusiasm..the sustaining power of all great action Votes: 0

As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can. Votes: 0

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. Votes: 0

The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex. Votes: 0

With nature's help, humankind can set into creation all that is necessary and life sustaining. Votes: 0

Is it not demonstrated that a true flying machine, self-raising, self-sustaining, self-propelling, is physically impossible? Votes: 0

The market is the creator of social wealth and the wellspring of self-sustaining economic development. Votes: 0

Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time. Votes: 0

Exercise is about being grateful for the body you have and sustaining the life you have. Votes: 0

A sustaining innovation makes better products that you can sell for better profits to your best customers. Votes: 0

For me, the most interesting thing is longevity and sustaining a career, because that's what's truly difficult. Votes: 0

Nature is not a drag on growth. Its protection is an unavoidable prerequisite for sustaining economic development Votes: 0

What we are doing in fact is recovering and progressing and sustaining the recovery of our democracy. Votes: 0

One of the most constant and sustaining truths of my life has been this: I love the library. Votes: 0

A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government. Votes: 0

In football, hate can be a beautiful thing; sustaining and nourishing, quite unlike other manifestations of an otherwise destructive emotion. Votes: 0

Consistency and acceleration are both key to sustaining success. One-day-wonder persons who slouch back to mediocrity will soon be forgotten. Votes: 0

Each of us has the ability to act powerfully for change; together we can restore that ancient and sustaining harmony. Votes: 0

And so artistic creation is the metamorphosis of the external physical aspects of a thing into a self-sustaining spiritual reality . Votes: 0

The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can. Votes: 0

The profits of oil, coal, and natural gas companies will have to yield to the imperative of sustaining life on earth. Votes: 0

The requirement of conspicuous wastefulness is... present as a constraining norm selectively shaping and sustaining our sense of what is beautiful. Votes: 0

You are my country, Desdemona. ... My Egypt. My hot, harrowing desert and my cool, verdant Nile, infinitely lovely and unfathomable and sustaining. Votes: 0

Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me." Votes: 0

In the original language, 'Fear the Lord' doesn't mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him. Votes: 0

The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk. Votes: 0

Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me. Votes: 0

A man or woman is seldom happy unless he or she is sustaining him or herself and making a contribution to others. Votes: 0

There are many pitfalls in the marathon of life. But regardless of what you go through, you can count on God's sustaining grace. Votes: 0

You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life. Votes: 0

People who do not worship are swept into a vast restlessness, epidemic in the world, with no steady direction and no sustaining purpose. Votes: 0

War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil. Votes: 0

Nothing capable of sustaining an invasion force of any size. But in all this, Aqaba, lying at the very southern end of the" Votes: 0

True Joy is not the absence of pain but the sanctifying, sustaining presence of the Lord Jesus in the midst of the pain Votes: 0

I'd like to be proven wrong firstly on the difficulty of building a self-sustaining closed circuit ecosystem in space that can support human life. Votes: 0

Prayer is the most powerful form of energy one can generate....It supplies us with a flow of sustaining power in our daily lives. Votes: 0

Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining. Votes: 0

In long-term relationships ... we are called upon to navigate that delicate balance between separateness and connectedness ... we confront the challenge of sustaining both--without losing either. Votes: 0

God seldom calls us for an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of His sustaining grace. Votes: 0

I'm not an environmentalist. I'm a cultural repairman. It's all about efficient and restorative use of resources to make the world secure, prosperous and life-sustaining. Votes: 0

If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure. Votes: 0

Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job. Votes: 0

The Artist should not forget his mission, perhaps the most religious of all, of sustaining faith in the worthwhileness of art and thus of life. Votes: 0

I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers who fought so hard for women's equality and liberation. Votes: 0

For women who have children, the economic difficulty of sustaining a life as an artist maybe makes it impossible. There's no maternity leave, there's no pension. Votes: 0

When we look at things as simple as food, it's not about just nourishment and sustaining our life, it is really the seed of our ancestor. Votes: 0

I'd be the last person in the world to deny that there are many people for whom faith is - can be a great sustaining force. Y Votes: 0

What I believe, according to my own experience, is that a calm, peaceful mind is a very important element for sustaining the body in a balanced way. Votes: 0

Patience is the key that unlocks the door to perseverance that unlocks the door to endurance that unlocks the door to the sustaining power of true success. Votes: 0

Justice has no independent existence; it results from mutual contracts, and establishes itself wherever there is a mutual engagement to guard against doing or sustaining mutual injury. Votes: 0

Social Security should have a self-sustaining portion that was funded by contributions from both employers and employees. That's what we know and have known for 70 successful years. Votes: 0

Efforts to ease regulations and reform the nation's tax system have helped put this self-sustaining recovery on track, The numbers prove our policies have not been wrong. Votes: 0

If we are looking for models of self-sustaining communities, we need look no further than an old-growth forest. Or the old-growth cultures they raised in symbiosis with them. Votes: 0

Community means engaging constructively with like-minded nations to build strong, sustaining institutions and alliances - and bringing emerging powers into this community so future conflict becomes less likely. Votes: 0

I try not to think about the drums themselves. If I do, I'll end up hitting myself in the head with a drumstick, or sustaining some weird injury. Votes: 0

The U.S. and China need to take steps - mostly individually, sometimes together - that will have the mutually beneficial effect of supporting and sustaining economic growth. Votes: 0

People don't realize we have these built-in seven-league boots. The body can go anywhere. It is physically capable of sustaining almost any kind of abuse, or any dream. Votes: 0

I'm curious about other universes, and nonhuman elementals. For me it's still a very lively ethos. It's a kind of practice. It's an ethos that is very sustaining. Votes: 0

It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon. Votes: 0

Old religious factions are volcanoes burned out; on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine and the sustaining corn. Votes: 0

I think buildings should imitate ecological systems. Ecological systems in nature before we had human beings interfere with them exist in a state of stasis - they are self-supporting, self-sustaining. Votes: 0

My view is that targets, properly constructed and applied across public services have been fundamental to past successes and will be an essential part of sustaining progress into the future. Votes: 0

Two conditions of self-sustaining growth are that a country has acquired a cadre of domestic entrepreneurs and administrators and, secondly, that it has attained to adequate savings and taxable capacity. Votes: 0

Since Michael died I think I've worked constantly. Friends and colleagues are very sustaining. They're the people who get you through it... It's no good to be on your own. Votes: 0

Europe unified its monetary policy through the euro before it unified politically, therefore sustaining member countries' abilities to pursue the kind of independent fiscal policies that can strain a joint currency. Votes: 0

The opportunity to orbit the Earth, witnessing multiple sunrises and sunsets every day, looking back to our small blue life-sustaining jewel from a distance, gives me the greatest sense of anticipation. Votes: 0

I think the better the show usually it means that you've got a lot of good people, because it's sustaining itself. If there's negative energy, things tend to break down ultimately. Votes: 0

It is a glorious occupation, vivifying and self-sustaining in its nature, to struggle with ignorance, and discover to the inquiring minds of the masses the clear cerulean blue of heavenly truth. Votes: 0

Even if the creative brilliance sparks only once, it needs to be accelerated and developed so it has self-sustaining strategies to continue adding value to both the initiator and those it serves. Votes: 0

The group of writers I had grown up with in the '60s - Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, James Simmons, John Hewitt, Paul Muldoon - formed a very necessary and self-sustaining group. Votes: 0

O'er Egypt's land of memory floods are level, And they are thine, O Nile! and well thou knowest The soul-sustaining airs and blasts of evil, And fruits, and poisons spring where'er thou flowest. Votes: 0

My son and my daughter have both been an incredibly sustaining force, especially through this recent bad patch [of health]. So, I've been blessed and grateful for their company and for their assistance. Votes: 0

Just because life signifies not bare passive existence (supposing there is such a thing), but a way of acting, environment or medium signifies what enters into this activity as a sustaining or frustrating condition. Votes: 0

Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night. Votes: 0

Content that's generated out of America, whether it be film or music, has, in my opinion, much greater impact in sustaining our credibility and our place as a cultural capital. This is our great export. Votes: 0

I know the difference between the confection of live as sung in a minstrel's tale and the sustaining bread of love in reality, he defended himself. Both are to be savoured in their own way. Votes: 0

Economic localization is the key to sustaining biological and cultural diversity - to sustaining life itself. The sooner we shift towards the local, the sooner we will begin healing our planet, our communities and ourselves. Votes: 0