We are living through the most profound changes in the economy since the Industrial Revolution. Technology, globalization, and the accelerating pace of change have yielded chaotic markets, fierce competition, and unpredictable staff requirements.
The resources of nature, like those of spirit, are running out, and all that a conscientious man can aspire to be is a literal conservative, hoarding what remains of culture and of natural wealth against the fierce appetites of modern life.
Though she be but little, she is fierce!
The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up, as it were, in a prison and in servitude, and having by accident got its liberty, not being accustomed to search for its food, and not knowing where to conceal itself, easily becomes the prey of the first who seeks to incarcerate it again.
She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.
A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.
Strength of will - is essential to your survival and success. The competitor who won't go away, who won't stay down, has one of the most formidable competitive advantages of all. In evaluating people, I prize ego. It often translates into a fierce desire to do their best and an inner confidence that stands them in good stead when things really get rough. Psychologists suggest that there is a strong link between ego and competitiveness. All the great performers I've ever coached had ego to spare.
I want my legacy to be that I was a man of character, I was a God fearing man and somebody who bettered the sport in terms of the way I represented the sport. But also that fact that I was a fierce competitor and fought the best in the world and was able to come out on top, so if those things could be said about me, then I look at it as a job well done.
I held her tighter, just because I could. Because she was fierce, and beautiful, and mind.
Oh, how strenuous is life! I know a little of it. Men "ought always to pray, and not to faint. " How fierce the battle! I know something of the conflict, but I ought not to faint, because I can pray.
I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.
Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens every blot.
Every patriot believes his country better than any other country. . . In its active manifestation-it is fond of killing-patriotism would be well enough if it were simply defensive, but it is also aggressive. . . Patriotism deliberately and with folly aforethought subordinates the interests of a whole to the interests of a part. . . Patriotism is fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave and blind as a stone.
The fierce pulsation of resurgent pride that disclaims servitude may one day cease to throb in the heart of Ireland - but the heart of Ireland will that day be dead. While Ireland lives, the brain and the brawn of her manhood will strive to destroy the last vestige of British rule in her territory
My mom says I'm a fighter, a fierce competitor, and I think I am, too.
I reject your reality and substitute my own.
I started singing at the Met when I was seven, and the competition was so fierce that it really prepared me.
Once you plant seeds of success, your tree will bear fierce fruit.
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.