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If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
The fact remains; chauvinism is prevailing.
No one can escape the influence of a prevailing ideology.
Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude
What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.
There can be no prevailing in prayer without travailing in prayer.
The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one's generation.
The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.
Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.
Mass movements do not usually rise until the prevailing order has been discredited.
Don't listen to the prevailing majority points of view. If you have new ideas, push them.
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.
It is sometimes easier to circumvent prevailing difficulties [in science] rather than to attack them.
The strategist's method is very simply to challenge the prevailing assumptions with a single question: Why?
I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.
A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing: our helper He amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing.
By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.
The saffron rule is prevailing in 22 States in India and we will strive to bring saffron rule in Tamil Nadu also.
I disagree with the prevailing point of view of some black leaders that special treatment for blacks is acceptable.
Women compete, compare, undermine, and undercut one another - at least, that is the prevailing notion of how we interact.
The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong.
Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.
Legally, many contractors are required to pay a prevailing wage. However, bad actors often find ways to get around this requirement.
It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.
My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there's a challenge, go for it. If there's a wall to break down, break it down.
The prevailing structures of personal reputation and career advancement mean the biggest rewards often follow the flashiest work, not the best.
The proclamation of the saving love of God comes before moral and religious imperatives. Today sometimes it seems that the opposite order is prevailing.
I know I can serve Hawaii and our country well in the U.S. Senate, know we can mount a solid statewide campaign, know we have a good chance of prevailing.
Successful collaboration, in your mind, could be that your opinion is the most valuable and becomes the prevailing sort of direction. That's not collaborating.
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.
As a sports fan, I like the one-and-done playoff setups of the NFL and NCAA, but a best-of-seven gives the favorite a much better chance of prevailing in the end.
Not considering this opening worthy of more attention, I continued our pursuit to the Northwest, being desirous to embrace the advantages of the prevailing breeze.
As a Harvard Ph.D. economist and U.C. Irvine professor, Dr. Navarro has been instrumental in challenging the prevailing Washington orthodoxy on so-called free trade.
Many unions have contracts with employers that are based on a multiple of the prevailing minimum wage. If the minimum wage goes up, union salaries go up by a similar percentage.
The blowback against a bailout of Lehman would have been fierce. It is often forgotten, but the prevailing wisdom the day after Lehman fell was that its collapse was a good thing.
Many Americans are eagerly watching the devolution of traditional news with relish because they agree with the prevailing narratives, whether based on true facts or imagined fiction.
Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
If Broadway no longer seems behind the times or ahead of the times, it may be because there are no 'times' anymore, no prevailing Zeitgeist that sets the fashion, pace, and prevailing look.
Labour was always aligned with the U.S. during the Cold War, but the ignominious implosion of communism reinforced the belief that no alternative to the prevailing common sense was possible.
It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.
I didn't do it because of the underlying greed that's prevailing, but it is about greed, doing the right thing at the right time using your clout when you have it and what for and what reason.
The logic of collective security is flawless, provided it can be made to work under the conditions prevailing on the international scene... The odds, however, are strongly against such a possibility.
At Yale, you can find someone passionate and enthusiastic and involved in just about any issue. For many of us, though, our school's prevailing progressive political atmosphere can make us complacent.
I think everybody should have an interest in peace prevailing and the ridiculousness, the bestiality of war. I don't have any time for that. Anybody pulling a trigger is wrong. There is no right in war.
Every quarter, we need to see the portfolio and follow the accounting practice of mark-to-market that values investments according to the prevailing market prices and at the price at which they are made.
Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.
Honestly, I don't think it's harder to be a producer as a woman. I think it helps me because I don't get bogged down in shows of male dominance that can sometimes get in the way of the best idea prevailing.
In order to displace a prevailing theory or paradigm in science, it is not enough to merely point out what it cannot explain; you have to offer a new theory that explains more data, and do so in a testable way.
