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  • I have priorities. Maintaining my daughter is my first. -- Whitney Houston
  • Maintaining spirituality and humanism are the keys to success. It's a balance. -- Bikram Choudhury
  • Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists. -- Noam Chomsky
  • Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic. -- Raymond Chandler
  • Maintaining checks and balances on the power of the Judiciary Branch and the other two branches is vital to keep the form of government set up by our Founding Fathers. -- Todd Tiahrt
  • Remember, you and you alone are responsible for maintaining your energy. Give up blaming, complaining and excuse making, and keep taking action in the direction of your goals - however mundane or lofty they may be. -- Jack Canfield
  • Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success. -- Napoleon Hill
  • Maintaining my dignity is so important for me. -- Amanda Lindhout
  • Maintaining our standard; that's our challenge day-in and day-out. -- Tim Rice
  • Maintaining the trust of the consumer is critical to our business -- Jeremy Stoppelman
  • Maintaining spirituality and humanism are the keys to success. Its a balance. -- Bikram Choudhury
  • Maintaining peace with God is more important than keeping pace with someone else. -- Andy Stanley
  • Maintaining self-respect in the face of a devastating experience is of prime importance. -- Ann Landers
  • Maintaining clean, safe water remains one of our greatest national and global challenges and responsibilities. -- Jerry Costello
  • Maintaining boundaries is hard. That's why I strongly prefer the physical separation of work and home. -- Karen Finerman
  • Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry. -- Bill Gates
  • Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places. -- Michael Parenti
  • Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently it's the most difficult thing in the world. -- Kelly Slater
  • Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently its the most difficult thing in the world. -- Kelly Slater
  • Maintaining the relationship. But there's also physical temptation and being on the same spiritual level, which can be difficult. -- Kevin Jonas
  • Maintaining difference of opinion is a thing commendable but not at the cost of respect you extend to whom you differ with. -- Junaid e Mustafa
  • Maintaining an open mind is essential when exploring the unknown, but allowing one's brains to fall out in the process is inadvisable. -- Dean Radin
  • You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else. -- Marian Keyes
  • I'm eating a lot of organic proteins and vegetables! Maintaining a healthy, balanced diet is my No. 1 priority because I'm nursing my daughter. -- Lily Aldridge
  • Maintaining the illusion that I am in control is futile, lonely, and in the long run more always costly than the effort is worth. -- Sheldon B. Kopp
  • Maintaining concentration depends on what I call tunnel vision; nothing else in the world exists but the catcher's target, the hitter and my perfect delivery. -- Nolan Ryan
  • Every move is a creation, Maintaining the delicate balance is a creation, The line is a creation, Survival is a creation, Freedom is a creation. -- Wojciech Kurtyka
  • Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes. -- Cathy McMorris Rodgers
  • Maintaining joy in God takes 'work'; that is, it's a fight against every impulse for alien joys and every obstacle in the way to seeing and savoring Christ. -- John Piper
  • Maintaining control indefinitely over millions of Palestinians will inevitably lead to a demographic nightmare and cannot be sustained if Israel is to remain true to its founding principles. -- Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Maintaining patience, being generous, and helping your peers takes time, and no small amount of emotional fortitude. But it brings an exponential difference in your team's ability to problem-solve. -- Kevin Allen
  • Running back-to-back races requires a certain tactical prudence. Going too hard in any one race might jeopardize your performance in another. Maintaining proper hydration and caloric equilibrium also becomes increasingly critical. -- Dean Karnazes
  • Maintaining order in the classrooms has never been easy and it is evident that the school setting requires some easing of the restrictions to which searches by public authorities are ordinarily subject. -- Byron White
  • I want to be a very good friend to Indonesia, but there are some things which are non-negotiable. Border protection is just non-negotiable. Maintaining a strong security network is just non-negotiable. I think the Indonesians understand that. -- Tony Abbott
  • I'm required to do every job well enough that I'd use it as evidence in court - that doesn't come cheaply! Property is a critical asset for individuals. Maintaining the cadastre (legal survey fabric) is an important job and a valuable service. -- Mark Mason
  • When a leader is at their limit the last thing they want to hear is that they need to change even more. Maintaining good rhythms of rest, exercise and fun create more energy for a leader to be willing and open for change. -- Gary Rohrmayer
  • Persistence is a pretty important part of making it in this business, which, in retrospect, is the easy part. Maintaining a profile is the difficult part of the job. Somehow or another, I muddled through that system and somehow am around to still enjoy playing for people. -- Chris Squire
  • Maintaining the trust of the consumer is critical to our business. We live and breathe only one thing, which is wanting to connect consumers with great local businesses, and I don't feel we can do that if we don't have effective ways to prevent gaming of the system. -- Jeremy Stoppelman
  • However, I do firmly believe in maintaining the integrity of the animal. -- Janine Turner
  • Ultimately, my greatest achievement is maintaining my career while sustaining a happy marriage and kids. -- Melina Kanakaredes
  • Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations. -- Sivananda
  • I have a good relationship with the world. But I don't know what the trick is to maintaining it. -- Ben Affleck
  • Enduring setbacks while maintaining the ability to show others the way to go forward is a true test of leadership. -- Nitin Nohria
  • People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power. -- Don DeLillo
  • What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from.' -- Marilyn vos Savant
  • After trying Atkins and doing Nutrisystem a few times, now I'm just focused on maintaining a healthy lifestyle rather than dieting. -- Miranda Lambert
  • I feel as if I've been fairly successful with maintaining a cohesive tone between the work I make as a photographer and as a director. -- Aaron Ruell
  • While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare -- Boris Yeltsin
  • The single most important factor in determining America's success in the 21st century will be maintaining our ability to be an innovative and creative society. -- Ron Kind
  • The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea. -- Max Lerner
  • The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes. -- Calvin Coolidge
  • Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness. -- Gustave Meyrink
  • Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness. -- Gustave Meyrink
  • Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector. -- David Rockefeller
  • Just like keeping a healthy diet is important to maintaining a healthy lifestyle, eating the right foods is just as important for getting the most out of your workout. -- Marcus Samuelsson
  • As a result, ways out of the crisis are being intensively searched for at all levels - ways, which, however, aim at maintaining the whites' control over the country. -- Joe Slovo
  • Research clearly shows us that the earlier women think about maintaining their bone mass and take the steps to do so, the better their health will be in the long run. -- Lois Capps
  • But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout the four decades of the Cold War. -- Joseph Rotblat
  • Be careful what you wish for - getting to be a successful business and maintaining it is so hard. Anyone can be good one night; being good over several years is incredibly difficult. -- David Chang
  • It is clear we can make reforms to better ensure we are giving law enforcement all of the tools they need while maintaining the appropriate safeguards to protect the very freedoms we cherish. -- Leonard Boswell
  • Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the Industrial Revolution. We can achieve so much more, at unmatched scale with software and interactive learning. -- Naveen Jain
  • As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but rich and costly: maintaining us to the heighth of her estate, but not beyond it. -- Margaret Cavendish
  • What I think is that we in the church - and especially I as an Archbishop - I'm responsible for maintaining our rules, and making sure we hold to unity in the Body of Christ. -- George Carey
  • A large majority of Americans believe that the U.N., not the U.S., should take the lead in working with Iraqis to transfer authentic sovereignty as well as in economic reconstruction and maintaining civic order. -- Noam Chomsky
  • Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil. -- Albert Schweitzer
  • Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike. -- Benjamin Tucker
  • There is nothing more pitiable than a soulless, sapless, shriveled church, seeking to thrive in a worldly atmosphere, rooted in barren professions, bearing no fruit, and maintaining only the semblance of existence; such a church cannot long survive. -- George C. Lorimer
  • My hobbies include maintaining my physical and mental health. It's a full-time job. Yoga definitely helps for both of them. I'm a big fan of relaxing and not having a schedule. That's my best way to keep from going crazy. -- Olivia Thirlby
  • Glamour is an imaginative process that creates a specific emotional response: a sharp mixture of projection, longing, admiration, and aspiration. It evokes an audience's hopes and dreams and makes them seem attainable, all the while maintaining enough distance to sustain the fantasy. -- Virginia Postrel
  • The first step toward maintaining autonomy in any programmed environment is to be aware that there's programming going on. It's as simple as understanding the commercials are there to help sell things. And that TV shows are there to sell commercials, and so on. -- Douglas Rushkoff
  • The stars look the same from night to night. Nebulae and galaxies are dully immutable, maintaining the same overall appearance for thousands or millions of years. Indeed, only the sun, moon and planets - together with the occasional comet, asteroid or meteor - seem dynamic. -- Seth Shostak
  • The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment. -- William Jennings Bryan
  • I'm no online whiz, but I'm not a Luddite, either. I love that we have these laptops and tablets and smart phones; they're awesome and convenient and all that. It's more about maintaining balance. Technology should always be a predicate of the true subject: our individual humanity, our examined lives. -- Paul Harding
  • The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well. -- Charles de Lint
  • Everything we think about regarding sustainability - from energy to agriculture to manufacturing to population - has a water footprint. Almost all of the water on Earth is salt water, and the remaining freshwater supplies are split between agricultural use and human use - as well as maintaining the existing natural environment. -- Jamais Cascio
  • What's been important with Flickr is the community that's been there from the beginning and the serious photographers that are there creating and sharing great content. If we lose that at some point then I think we have potential issues, but so far we've been able to do a really good job of maintaining that. -- David Filo
  • I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot. -- G-Eazy
  • Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self realization. Yoga means union - the union of body with consciousness and consciousness with the soul. Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day to day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
  • The joy is in creating, not maintaining. -- Vince Lombardi
  • Consistency is the key to achieving and maintaining momentum. -- Darren Hardy
  • Sometimes it was really hard maintaining composure. People were just goofy. -- Pell James
  • The biggest challenge, I think, is always maintaining your moral compass. -- Barack Obama
  • The family is the foundation for love and for maintaining spirituality -- Quentin L. Cook
  • I think I'm maintaining the quality, but internally I'm paying for it. -- Gary Larson
  • The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God. -- John Ortberg
  • When maintaining a relationship means diminishing your self, it's time to walk. -- Dov Davidoff
  • The greatest challenge of Leadership maintaining personal conviction in a globalized world. -- Myles Munroe
  • Fallen man is both terrified of vulnerability and committed to maintaining independence. -- Kay Warren
  • Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis. -- William Empson
  • Gaining a victory is more difficult than maintaining it once you have it. -- Joyce Meyer
  • The price of maintaining membership in the establishment is unquestioning acceptance of authority. -- Neil Postman
  • The hardest work most of us do is maintaining the appearance of normality. -- Harry Shearer
  • Sometimes it's difficult maintaining my friendships, but to me, it's well worth it. -- Steve Nash
  • I think maintaining relationships with my friends, my mother, my manager, they're all important. -- Christina Applegate
  • Surviving a tough situation means staying in the fight and maintaining a warrior's mindset. -- Joe Teti
  • Health reform is an essential part of restoring America's economy and maintaining our competitiveness. -- Max Baucus
  • Why do you keep maintaining your ideas are right if you can't prove them? -- Jean-Paul Sartre
  • I lovingly do everything I can to assist my body in maintaining perfect health -- Louise Hay
  • Funding and maintaining programs from Head Start to Pell Grants must be a high priority. -- Ed Pastor
  • The one great element in continuing the success of an offensive is maintaining the momentum. -- George C. Marshall
  • Part of maintaining a thriving creative culture is giving people time and permission to play. -- Tim Brown
  • History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • Paperwork is the embalming fluid of bureaucracy, maintaining an appearance of life where none exists. -- Robert H. Meltzer
  • I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm. -- Bernard Hinault
  • I credit chiropractic care for maintaining my health to keep up the pace of my career. -- Jane Russell
  • Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it. -- Henry Ward Beecher
  • Set yourself up for success from the very beginning and then focus on maintaining that success. -- Cat Cora
  • There is a correlation between people who attack same-sex marriage and have difficulty maintaining their own. -- Barney Frank
  • A lot of people are concerned with staying physically young...I'm more interested in maintaining my curiosity. -- Diablo Cody
  • I am totally committed to maintaining the freedom and equality America has to provide to every citizen. -- Jeff Sessions
  • Talking openly and honestly about relationships is a key to helping improve relationships and maintaining healthy ones. -- Rodney A. Winters
  • Today we all give all our data away all day long while aiming to maintaining our privacy. -- will.i.am
  • We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation. -- Richard Lamm
  • To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves. -- Bruce Lee
  • Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor. -- Stephen Hawking
  • Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations. -- Sivananda
  • I don't worry about maintaining the quality of my life, because every day I work on improving it. -- Tony Robbins
  • My role as a producer is very specific. It's maintaining the creative truthfulness, day in and day out. -- Jeffrey Donovan
  • As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system. -- Derek Bok
  • If youre not concerned about maintaining an image, you can pursue roads that another actor might not take. -- Kevin Spacey
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