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I had parents who believed I could do anything - and I know how that made me feel. I think both my parents, having careers in the medical profession, feel they are helping people on a daily basis, and that was inculcated in me as a value. I had to struggle with giving up the idea of becoming a doctor myself.
Only the previous day, Arch had found him in a spirit-dance corral, blistering the creatures to the point of death, such was his need to touch and destroy.
My parents weren't keen on the giving up of school at the beginning to go into singing and dancing, but once they saw I was serious about it, they gave support. I was quite stubborn about my decision, and in the end, they realised it was for the best.
Dance is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
O body swayed to music,
O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
Danger breeds best on too much confidence.
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
Libraries were full of ideas-perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.
One would be in less danger
From the wiles of the stranger
If one's own kin and kith
Were more fun to be with.
The most dangerous man in America.
Physicians acquire their knowledge from our dangers, making experiments at the cost of our lives.
The highest form of success ... comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.
One's belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one's conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same twenty years ago and today we know we weren't always right.
But, the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure.
They used to give us a day-it was called International Women's Day. In 1975 they gave us a year, the Year of the Woman. Then from 1975 to 1985 they gave us a decade, the Decade of the Woman. I said at the time, who knows, if we behave they may let us into the whole thing. Well, we didn't behave and here we are.
When I first became a lawyer, only 2% of the bar was women. People would always think I was a secretary. In those days, professional women in the business world wore hats. So I started wearing hats.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Count that day won when, turning on its axis, this earth imposes no additional taxes.
Only the previous day, Arch had found him in a spirit-dance corral, blistering the creatures to the point of death, such was his need to touch and destroy.
Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!
And I'm suppose to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married...?His voice tightened.
And meanwhile, I'll die a little bit more every day, watching.
Not a penny off the pay; not a minute on the day.
A fair day's wage for a fair day's work.
Stages
As every flower fades and as all youth
Departs, so life at every stage,
So every virtue, so our grasp of truth,
Blooms in its day and may not last forever.
Since life may summon us at every age
Be ready, heart, for parting, new endeavor,
Be ready bravely and without remorse
To find new light that old ties cannot give.
In all beginnings dwells a magic force
For guarding us and helping us to live.
Serenely let us move to distant places
And let no sentiments of home detain us.
The Cosmic Spirit seeks not to restrain us
But lifts us stage by stage to wider spaces.
If we accept a home of our own making,
Familiar habit makes for indolence.
We must prepare for parting and leave-taking
Or else remain the slaves of permanence.
Even the hour of our death may send
Us speeding on to fresh and newer spaces,
And life may summon us to newer races.
So be it, heart: bid farewell without end.
Shifting toward management meant greater responsibility and influence, but it also meant giving up programming day-to-day in my role, which was hard because it took me out of my comfort zone.
With a new baby, you have a bad day now and again because you're particularly tired, but most of the time, you're fine. You spend a lot of your time trying to figure out how you can get more sleep, but really, you're better off just giving up and admitting that you're not going to, so forget about it.
I wore a padded bra every single day and night from the age of 14 until I was 31. Giving up padding was my New Year's resolution. I had known for ages that wearing a stuffed bra was a form of hiding my real body.
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream ...
All that you see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
The 1 to 2 billion poorest in the world, who don't have food for the day, suffer from the worst disease: globalization deficiency. The way globalization is occurring could be much better, but the worst thing is not being part of it. For those people, we need to support good civil societies and governments.
You cry and you scream and you stomp your feet and you shout. You say,You know what? I'm giving up, I don't care.And then you go to bed and you wake up and it's a brand new day, and you pick yourself back up again.
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
Growing Strongeremerged from a need to relate my life experiences as well as my constant struggle to prevail each day, and as a reminder to myself of the importance of never giving up.
I was like a hit album waiting to be released. I knew my day would come.
It is better to debate a question without deciding it than to decide it without debate.
I am ready to debate how we fight terrorism without giving up our liberty.
There is always a multitude of reasons both in favour of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.
Forgive: Make a conscious decision to cease to harbor resentment, which includes forgiving a debt and giving up one's resolve to retaliate.
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth.
I feel these days like a very large flamingo. No matter what way I turn, there is always a very large bill.
The debt is like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement. All the neighbors know she's there, but nobody wants to talk about her.
The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.
He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt.
There are three kinds of lie: a small lie, a big lie and politics.
She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.
Everyone is a potential winner. Some people are disguised as losers, don't let their appearances fool you.
History books which contain no lies are extremely dull.
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
Self-deception operates both at the level of the individual mind, and in the collective awareness of the group. To belong to a group of any sort, the tacit price of membership is to agree not to notice one's own feelings of uneasiness and misgiving, and certainly not to question anything that challenges the group's way of doing things.
Some marry the first information they receive, and turn what comes later into their concubine. Since deceit is always first to arrive, there is no room left for truth.
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
I once said cynically of a politician,He'll double-cross that bridge when he comes to it.
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
He was the consummate politician. He didn't lie, neither did he tell the truth.
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
Political language ... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
By the time you say you're his,
Shivering and sighing
And he vows his passion is
Infinite, undying -
Lady, make a note of this:
One of you is lying.
O, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive!
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.
The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself; and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.
A conference is a gathering of important people who, singly, can do nothing but together can decide that nothing can be done.
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
There is no such thing as great talent without great will-power.
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.
My parents weren't keen on the giving up of school at the beginning to go into singing and dancing, but once they saw I was serious about it, they gave support. I was quite stubborn about my decision, and in the end, they realised it was for the best.
Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune.
If you are ever in doubt as to whether or not you should kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.
Decisions of the kind the executive has to make are not made well by acclamation. They are made well only if based on the clash of conflicting views ... The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
Long-range planning does not deal with future decisions. It deals with the future of present decisions.
It is your own conviction which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.
Forgive: Make a conscious decision to cease to harbor resentment, which includes forgiving a debt and giving up one's resolve to retaliate.
We should never allow ourselves to be bullied by an either-or. There is often the possibility of something better than either of these two alternatives.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
A wrong decision isn't forever; it can always be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved.
If businessmen always made the right decisions, business wouldn't be business.
When it's time to make a decision about a person or problem ... trust your intuition ... act.
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind ... Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
Don't study the idea to death with experts and committees. Get on with it and see if it works.
It is better to debate a question without deciding it than to decide it without debate.
One of our greatest gifts is our intuition. It is a sixth sense we all have - we just need to learn to tap into and trust it.
Leadership is not about being nice. It's about being right and being strong.
Business today is about making decisions amid ambiguity.
My best career decision was probably not giving up when I wanted to. God as well as my family and friends were there for me during my toughest times.
It is a characteristic of committee discussions and decisions that every member has a vivid recollection of them and that every member's recollection differs violently from every other member's recollection.
Organizations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity.
We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
Do not assume more variables than necessary.
Decision making by consensus has been the subject of a great deal of research ... evidence strongly suggests that a consensus approach yields more creative decisions and more effective implementation than does individual decision making.
In a small company, one person's hunch can be enough to launch a new product. In a big company, the same concept is likely to be buried in committee for months.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
There is always a multitude of reasons both in favour of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.
Even children learn in growing up thatbothis not an admissible answer to a choice ofwhich one?
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?
A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted.
The only people who never make mistakes are those who have never taken a decision.
While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.
Once a decision was made, I did not worry about it afterward.
When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils.
When two men always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn't smooth. You'll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don't believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don't give up.
I never thought of losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.
He who fears being conquered is certain of defeat.
Victory has a hundred fathers, but no one wants to recognise defeat as his own.
You can only stumble if you're moving.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Defeat doesn't finish a man - quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.
You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in that grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
This England never did, nor never shall,
lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.
The general who wins a battle makes many calculations ... here the battle is fought. The general who loses a battle makes but few calculations beforehand. Thus do many calculations lead to victory, and few to defeat.
I have never compared myself to my managers ... although I have made some big financial decisions on my own and decided on new investments, I have never involved myself in managerial decisions.
Guidelines for bureaucrats: (1) When in charge, ponder. (2) When in trouble, delegate. (3) When in doubt, mumble.
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for the Emperor can actually do nothing.
If you are having as much fun running a big corporation as you did running a piece of it, then you are probably interfering too much with the people who really make it happen.
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
Big things and little things are my job. Middle level management can be delegated.
Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.
Do not delegate an assignment and then attempt to manage it yourself - you will make an enemy of the overruled subordinate.
There is no indispensable man.
When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.
I know that upon 4th of July, our 4th of July orators talk of Liberty, while three million of their own country men are groaning in abject Slavery. This is calledthe land of the free and the home of the brave; it is called theasylum of the oppressed; and some have been foolish enough to call it theCradle of Liberty.If it is thecradle of liberty,they have rocked the child to death. It is dead long since, and yet we talk about democracy and republicanism, while one-sixth of our countrymen are clanking their chains upon the very soil which our fathers moistened with their blood.
Globalization has much potential. It could be the answer to many of the world's seemingly intractable problems. But this requires strong democratic foundations based on a political will to ensure equity and justice.
There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives. There cannot be true democracy unless all citizens are able to participate fully in the lives of their country.
If we want to preserve the foundation of our democracy, it's vital that we find common ground that allows us to work for the greater good of this nation. This does not mean giving up our values. This does not mean swallowing a bitter compromise.
[The] city of New York and the United States of America is much stronger than any group of barbaric terrorists, that our democracy, that our rule of law, that our strength and our willingness to defend ourselves will ultimately prevail.
Ordinary people may not understand the meaning of democracy but they've a passionate regard for fair play.
Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
If we take the term in the strict sense, there never has been a real democracy, and there never will be. It is against the natural order for the many to govern and the few to be governed.
A land without a people for a people without a land.
We must face up to a difficult paradox: The U.S. can maintain a leading position in science only by giving up its desire to be number one.
My deepest, strongest desire in marrying you, Darling, is to make you happy, and I would put into this some word of love which would seem to your heart a sort of sweet preface to the book of love which we are about to open together, to read new secrets of sympathy and companionship. I would have you catch a glimpse of my purpose for the future and of the joy which that future contains for me, of the gratitude I feel for your priceless gift of love, and of the infinite love and tenderness which is the gift of my whole heart to you.
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
enough money within her control to move out
and rent a place of her own even if she never wants
to or needs to...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
something perfect to wear if the employer or date of her
dreams wants to see her in an hour...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ...
a youth she's content to leave behind....
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
a past juicy enough that she's looking forward to
retelling it in her old age....
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE .....
a set of screwdrivers, a cordless drill, and a black
lace bra...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
one friend who always makes her laugh... and one who
lets her cry...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
a good piece of furniture not previously owned by anyone
else in her family...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
eight matching plates, wine glasses with stems, and a
recipe for a meal that will make her guests feel honored...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
a feeling of control over her destiny...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
how to fall in love without losing herself..
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
HOW TO QUIT A JOB,
BREAK UP WITH A LOVER,
AND CONFRONT A FRIEND WITHOUT RUINING THE FRIENDSHIP...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
when to try harder... and WHEN TO WALK AWAY...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
that she can't change the length of her calves,
the width of her hips, or the nature of her parents..
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
that her childhood may not have been perfect...but it's over...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
what she would and wouldn't do for love or more...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
how to live alone... even if she doesn't like it...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
whom she can trust,
whom she can't,
and why she shouldn't
take it personally...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
where to go...
be it to her best friend's kitchen table...
or a charming inn in the woods...
when her soul needs soothing...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
what she can and can't accomplish in a day...
a month...and a year...
Only the previous day, Arch had found him in a spirit-dance corral, blistering the creatures to the point of death, such was his need to touch and destroy.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now, he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined, and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Any one who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums, Paul learned, who find prison so soul-destroying.
Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.
A handful of men have become very rich by paying attention to details that most others ignored.
A little neglect may breed mischief ... for want of a nail the shoe was lost.
Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not.
Big things and little things are my job. Middle level management can be delegated.
Trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles spring.
I try to keep in touch with the details - you can't keep in touch with them all, but you've got to have a feel for what's going on.
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same persons?
I recommend you to take care of the minutes for the hours will take care of themselves.
Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify.
Whoever wants to accomplish great things must devote to a lot of profound thought to details.
Think naught a trifle, though it small appear;
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,
And trifles life.
Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Start with your own money and value your intuition. It's all about endurance in the beginning. Your dream and passion to succeed must be stronger than your fear of failure.
These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of America's resolve.
It takes twenty years to make an overnight success.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness - its opposite - never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan,Press on,has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
Opportunities are not offered; they must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance and tenacity, determination and courage.
It is only when a person has his own generator that we can talk about motivation. He then needs no outside stimulation. He wants to do it.
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
People are ambitious and unrealistic. They set targets for themselves that are higher than what you would set for them. And because they set them, they hit them.
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
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.
God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.
We shall not be diverted from our course. To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catch-phrase, the U-turn, I have only this to say.You turn if you want; the lady's not for turning.
Success is measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.
When you're scared, you're still hanging on to life. When you're ready to die, you let it go. A sort of emptying out occurs, a giving up on the world that seems oddly familiar even if you've never done it before.
She used to diet on any kind of food she could lay her hands on.
Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.
I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men, and his aversion to lean ones.
In the matter of diet - I have been persistently strict in sticking to the things that didn't agree with me until one or the other of us got the best of it.
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral or fattening.
Now she's on a diet. Coconuts and bananas. She hasn't lost any weight. But she can climb a tree!
Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.
By definition, risk-takers often fail. So do morons. In practice it's difficult to sort them out.
In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.
AfterThe Real Thing,I thought about giving up acting because it's difficult to have a rich life outside your work when you're an actress, a private life that can survive being picked up and put down. That's what I thought, anyway.
It is difficulties that show what men are.
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy: in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements, and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.
We must face up to a difficult paradox: The U.S. can maintain a leading position in science only by giving up its desire to be number one.
The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
Lack of confidence is not the result of difficulty; the difficulty comes from lack of confidence.
I think giving up people is a difficult thing.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
I have nothing to offer you but my strength for your defence, my honesty for your surety, my ability and industry for your livelihood, and my authority and position for your dignity. That is all it becomes a man to offer to a woman.
A celebrity is one who works hard all his life to become well-known and then goes through back streets wearing dark glasses so he won't be recognized.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness - its opposite - never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan,Press on,has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
I don't know any executive who ever thought about stress, although a lot of other people do. No one ever dies of hard work. But a lot of people die once they retire from an active job.
It's true hard work never killed anyone but I figure why take the chance?
I believe in hard work. It keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.
Gentlemen, you are now about to embark on a course of studies which will occupy you for two years. Together, they form a noble adventure. But I would like to remind you of an important point. Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life, save only this, that if you work hard and intelligently you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole, purpose of education.
Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life - save only this - that if you work hard and intelligently you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole, purpose of education.
Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
I do not regard the procuring of peace as a matter in which we should play the role of arbiter between different opinions ... more that of an honest broker who really wants to press the business forward.
Meeting jaw to jaw is better than war.*
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.*
All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.
Diplomacy is to do and say
The nastiest thing in the nicest way.
Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.
Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it.
A diplomat ... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know how much oil one must mix with one's vinegar.
An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Acting isn't always about the amount of talent you have, or your ability to cry on command. The point is, how well can you take direction? How well can you put aside your own ideas or ego and listen to the ideas of the director and the people above you, while not giving up the passion and drive of that character?
I have discovered few learning disabled students in my three decades of teaching. I have, however, discovered many, many victims of teaching inabilities.
Governments have been ceding power to big multinational corporations in the market. We see the manifest in a variety of ways. Where governments are giving up power to big international institutions like the World Trade Organization or NAFTA, which are disabling governments' ability to protect the rights of their own people.
The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers and thermonuclear weapons.
The nice girl thinks she's giving up something to get something better in return. She gives up control over her own life. When the time comes for her to get what she expected, she winds up disappointed. In addition to being empty-handed, she's depleted.
Human resources are the greatest assets of any company. You can raise tariffs or prevent MNCs from entering, but one can't stop the employees from leaving if they are dissatisfied.
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment.
You will find as the children grow up that as a rule children are a bitter disappointment - their greatest object being to do precisely what their parents do not wish and have anxiously tried to prevent.
Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious: both are disappointed.
Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next, they say it has been discovered before. Lastly, they say they have always believed it.
Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only through gambling can we take advantage of them.
The only real valuable thing is intuition. The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery.
Men their rights and nothing more; women their rights and nothing less.
When you apply the word power to a man, it means strong and bold - very positive attributes. When you use it to describe a woman, it suggests bitchy, insensitive, hard.
And finds, with keen discriminating sight,
Black's not so black; - nor white so very white.
There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives. There cannot be true democracy unless all citizens are able to participate fully in the lives of their country.
Women do two thirds of the world's work ... Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.
A Congresswoman must look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man, speak on any given subject with authority and most of all work like a dog.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
Business shouldn't be like sports, separating the men from the women.
If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.
If you want to push something ... you're accused of being aggressive, and that's not supposed to be a good thing for a woman. If you get upset and show it, you're accused of being emotional.
A new type of woman arises. She is called a career woman. A man is never a career man. That is his right and privilege. But the woman is called career woman because hercareer... demands that she ... even renounce normal life.
When women ask for equality, men take them to be demanding domination.
If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
For a woman to attain a high level in a male-dominated profession, she has to work twice as hard and/or be twice as smart.
We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
Men are still clinging to the hope that women are powerless, because they haven't got much else to cling to.
Crying is almost a ritual that male politicians must do to prove they are compassionate, but women are supposed to wear iron britches.
The greatest contribution you can make to women's rights, is to be the absolute ... best at what you do.
Physicians of the Utmost Fame
Were called at once; but when they came
They answered, as they took their Fees,
There is no cure for this disease.
Crime isn't a disease, it's a symptom. Cops are like a doctor that gives you aspirin for a brain tumour.
Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too.
God heals and the doctor takes the fees.
A cousin of mine who was a casualty surgeon in Manhattan tells me that he and his colleagues had a one-word nickname for bikers: Donors.
Accountants are the witch-doctors of the modern world and willing to turn their hands to any kind of magic.
For extreme illnesses, extreme treatments are most fitting.
Life is short, [the] art long, opportunity fleeting, experience deceptive, judgment difficult.
Nearly all men die of their medicines, and not of their illnesses.
No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this -devoted and obedient.This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.
There's no point in giving up something you enjoy unless you get something back that's even better, and quickly.
Physicians acquire their knowledge from our dangers, making experiments at the cost of our lives.
Cured yesterday of my disease. I died last night of the physician.
I can't stand whispering. Every time a doctor whispers in the hospital, next day there's a funeral.
He had had much experience of physicians, and saidthe only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
I only care to see doctors when I am in perfect health; then they comfort one, but when one is ill they are most depressing.
If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
I had parents who believed I could do anything - and I know how that made me feel. I think both my parents, having careers in the medical profession, feel they are helping people on a daily basis, and that was inculcated in me as a value. I had to struggle with giving up the idea of becoming a doctor myself.
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Oh, if only it were possible to find understanding,Joseph exclaimed.
If only there were a dogma to believe in. Everything is contradictory, everything tangential; there are no certainties anywhere. Everything can be interpreted one way and then again interpreted in the opposite sense. The whole of world history can be explained as development and progress and can also be seen as nothing but decadence and meaninglessness. Isn't there any truth? Is there no real and valid doctrine?
There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught. Be prepared for conflicts, Joseph Knecht - I can see that they already have begun.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainty.
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements, and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.
Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.
You could rattle the stars,she whispered.
You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That's what scares you most.
Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.
Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
I'm a believer in finding a passion, hard work and definitely not giving up on your dream.
Have you noticed ... there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists.
Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
Start with your own money and value your intuition. It's all about endurance in the beginning. Your dream and passion to succeed must be stronger than your fear of failure.
There will be times when you just can't seem to land an acting job, and you feel like giving up. Don't! The only way to realise that dream is to keep working hard for it.
There is no hate without fear. Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking. Thus we hate what threatens our person, our liberty, our privacy, our income, our popularity, our vanity and our dreams and plans for ourselves. If we can isolate this element in what we hate we may be able to cease from hating. Analyse in this way the hatred of ideas or of the kind of people whom we have once loved and whose faces are preserved in Spirits of Anger. Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.
Last night I dreamt I ate a ten-pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Keeping dreams alive and trying to make them come true is crucial in the watch business. We're in the business of selling emotional products.
I love thee - I love thee,
'Tis all that I can say
It is my vision in the night,
My dreaming in the day.
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
I am captivated more by dreams of the future than by history of the past.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
I have a dream ...
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys.
To the stars who listen-and the dreams that are answered.
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter ... a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
A salesman has got to dream, boy, it comes with the territory.
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream ...
All that you see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that once unleashed can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.
In a dream you are never eighty.
You see things as they are and ask,Why?I dream things as they never were and ask,Why not?
Leadership is the process of achieving a dream together, especially when that dream seems impossible to achieve.
Who am I? I'm just a writer. I write things down. I walk through your dreams and invent the future. Sure, I sink the boat of love, but that comes later. And yes, I swallow glass, but that comes later.
I dream for a living.
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
enough money within her control to move out
and rent a place of her own even if she never wants
to or needs to...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
something perfect to wear if the employer or date of her
dreams wants to see her in an hour...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ...
a youth she's content to leave behind....
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
a past juicy enough that she's looking forward to
retelling it in her old age....
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE .....
a set of screwdrivers, a cordless drill, and a black
lace bra...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
one friend who always makes her laugh... and one who
lets her cry...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
a good piece of furniture not previously owned by anyone
else in her family...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
eight matching plates, wine glasses with stems, and a
recipe for a meal that will make her guests feel honored...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
a feeling of control over her destiny...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
how to fall in love without losing herself..
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
HOW TO QUIT A JOB,
BREAK UP WITH A LOVER,
AND CONFRONT A FRIEND WITHOUT RUINING THE FRIENDSHIP...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
when to try harder... and WHEN TO WALK AWAY...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
that she can't change the length of her calves,
the width of her hips, or the nature of her parents..
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
that her childhood may not have been perfect...but it's over...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
what she would and wouldn't do for love or more...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
how to live alone... even if she doesn't like it...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
whom she can trust,
whom she can't,
and why she shouldn't
take it personally...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
where to go...
be it to her best friend's kitchen table...
or a charming inn in the woods...
when her soul needs soothing...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
what she can and can't accomplish in a day...
a month...and a year...
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
I have spread my dreams beneath your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
Once upon a time, I, Chuang Chou, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was Chou. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man. Between a man and a butterfly there is necessarily a distinction. The transition is called the transformation of material things.
I grew up with a lot of brothers and sisters. I did all I could do to really stand out and that nurtured a lot of confidence and drive and ambition.
I have never compared myself to my managers ... although I have made some big financial decisions on my own and decided on new investments, I have never involved myself in managerial decisions.
Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.
Faith is not a conclusion from premisses, but the result of an act of the will, following on the conviction that to believe is a duty.