Following Quotes to Inspire and Motivate

Motivational Following Quotes

The claim "I was only following orders" has been used
to justify too many tragedies in our history.
- Captain Picard of the television series
STAR TREK: The Next Generation

We are a puny and fickle folk.
Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Balance activity with serenity,
wealth with simplicity,
persistence with innovation,
community with solitude,
familiarity with adventure,
constancy with change,
leading with following.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The end of life is to be like God,
and the soul following God will be like Him.
- Socrates

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you,
following you right on up until you die.
- Paul Simon

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From the way most people live,
one would never guess that humans are beings of free will.
Repetition can be a choice, but often it isn't.
The athlete or pianist who practices the same routine
day after day, year after year, has their eye on a goal.
The unending repetition is a conscious choice
in the pursuit of a life dream.
But what about the sameness of most lives?
Observe the morning commute, the after-work drink,
the Sunday football game or religious service -
how many of those people are consciously following their dream,
training their mind, body, and spirit through that daily repetition?
And how many are mindlessly slogging through each day
out of habit and boredom?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do more than is required.
What is the distance between someone who achieves their
goals consistently and those who spend their lives
and careers merely following? The extra mile.
- Gary Ryan Blair

I do not want to foresee the future.
I am concerned with taking care of the present.
God has given me no control over the moment following.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

I enjoy 'Supermarket Sweep' because of its adlib demands
in following the fast action.
- Randy West

I emphasise the following: don't, whatever happens,
be anyone but yourself.
Don't act anyone else-that would be fatal.
- Graham Kennedy

Always think that in any area of the arts,
you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative,
original...
and the rest are generally following on,
copying.
- Hugh Hopper

Some day, following the example of the United States of America,
there will be a United States of Europe.
- George Washington

We have an epidemic of sexual predators following our children,
whether it be on the computers, whether it be in our public parks,
whether it be in the workplace, or even our schools.
- Jon Porter

He grows daily more capable of following any inspiration
without technical effort,
and also of letting inspiration come to him through meticulous observation.
- Eugen Herrigel

Creativity shouldn't be following radio;
it should be the other way around.
- Herbie Hancock

The three years following the release of See The Light were a whirlwind.
- Jeff Healey

If there is no certain reality, the idea of following
a leader must be scrutinized.
- Marguerite Young

Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain
anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights.
- Stephen Gardiner

If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from
following your deepest instinct,
your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
- Katharine Butler Hathaway

Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following.
They could make another version of that movie right
now and make a lot of money.
- Samuel L. Jackson

I think the hardest part of writing is revising.
And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to
create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it.
- Chaim Potok

When you have this many losses, you don't have a following.
- Eddie Bernice Johnson

I like to sneak in under the radar.
I don't have any paparazzi following me or have to deal with that stuff.
I'm never in the tabloids.
I prefer that.
- Rob Schneider

We've been following Judge Alito's career over the last 15 years,
while he's been on the Court of Appeals.
- Jay Alan Sekulow

I've no idea what Eddie Irvine's orders are,
but he's following them superlatively well.
- Murray Walker

A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by
hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following.
- Duncan Sheik

I did have a big following in the upper New York area.
I was at the New York State Fair a few times over the years.
I have areas that I say are my areas.
- Bobby Vinton

Also we will be carrying food and clothes for the Expedition Two crew.
And as well as spare parts for the EVA that will be
conducted from the station in the following months.
- Umberto Guidoni

I was following my muse and I was very fortunate in
having good people around me and it turned out to be
a pretty good recording in my opinion.
- Ronnie Montrose

In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful.
It is as inevitable as death following life.
If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted.
Even Prime Ministers.
- Alan Clark

This kind of music was just hitting England,
so we were getting this following in clubs in Birmingham
just cause we were trying to do something different.
- Jim Capaldi

But while doing that I'd been following a variety of
fields in science and technology,
including the work in molecular biology,
genetic engineering, and so forth.
- K. Eric Drexler

Well, I've never been to Japan so I couldn't say.
I do know that we have a bit of a following there however.
- Trevor Dunn

We still have a very good core following,
and the shows have been almost one hundred percent sold out.
- Josh Silver

Rooting is following, and I don't do that,
but I'd like to see the Phillies win because I love Philadelphia.
- Steve Carlton

In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor,
there is but little to soothe the mind.
- Charlotte Smith

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders,
it isn't acting.
It's following instructions.
Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.
- James Dean

Well, Dwight was born to be No.
2 and I don't think he would know what to do as a leader.
But he loves following.
He would have made a great fascist.
- Rainn Wilson

Israel ranks her priorities in the following way:
security,
land, and water.
- Bashar al-Assad

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical,
combine in the three following questions:
1.
What can I know? 2.
What ought I to do? 3.
What may I hope?
- Immanuel Kant

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy;
Dear Jack,
Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary.
I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.
- John F. Kennedy

I think this, I think basically I'm not interested
in people following my work or making work like my work.
- Richard Serra

It is incumbent upon us to respond to the unique needs
of military women and ensure they receive proper care
during the first year following childbirth.
- Susan Collins

On the fourth day of July following,
a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough,
killed one man, and wounded two.
- Daniel Boone

The National League was born the following year,
as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor.
- John Thorn

Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did,
it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness
should justify our following suit.
- Leon Kass

My first care the following morning was,
to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak.
- Adelbert von Chamisso

I've become increasingly confidant in following intuitions
ahead of thoughts as I produce more records.
- Jerry Harrison

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received.
Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling.
Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
- Henry Van Dyke

Every time we've gone somewhere, it's just been better
and better and God's always blessed us for following.
- Stacie Orrico

Following my junior year in high school,
I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber,
a young language teacher from Roosevelt.
- Peter Agre

On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance,
and on the following morning we worked out to St.
Helen's, where we were obliged to anchor.
- William Bligh

I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men,
now walk ahead.
He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.
- Robert Mueller

I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were.
I'm not following the other person.
It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.
- Omar Sharif

Sydney is a very good market for us -
we have a very strong following here.
- Graeme Murphy

You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does.
- Laurell K. Hamilton

All historical experience demonstrates the following:
Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant
future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.
- Hans Kung

Women are reputed never to be disgusted.
The sad fact is that they often are,
but not with men; following the lead of men,
they are most often disgusted with themselves.
- Germaine Greer

You don't learn to walk by following rules.
You learn by doing, and by falling over.
- Richard Branson

There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.
- Kenneth L. Pike

I keep one simple rule that I only move in one direction -
I write the book straight through from beginning to end.
By following time's arrow, I keep myself sane.
- Jonathan Lethem

A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy,
yet there are very fine minds incapable of following
mathematical demonstrations.
- Henri Poincare

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