Orison Swett Marden Quotes

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

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• He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.

  

  Ed Wood
  • Work
  • Short
  • Tall

• I don't really like to work with actors that work a lot and are very well established already. In a way, I like to nurture talent and have it burst on the scene.

  

  Maiwenn
  • Work
  • Way
  • Talent

• These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Up
  • Time
  • Best

• The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Opportunity
  • Space
  • Eyes

• My baby is amazing; even his head smells amazing. His breath, the whole thing, you could eat him! He's a big, beautiful boy. He's great.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Amazing

• Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Work
  • Understanding
  • Confidence

• If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Body
  • Window
  • Throw

• I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Music
  • Why
  • Know

• I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Use
  • Boots
  • Edmonton

• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Fly
  • New York
  • Paris

• I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Up
  • Great
  • Think

• Cyclists need to help themselves and should not jump red lights. I would ride in London, but I certainly wouldn't ride like that; you just have to be careful. I can understand going down the outside of traffic, but you should obey the rules of the road because we're all road users.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Help
  • Road
  • Red

• Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.

  

  Zola Budd
  • World
  • Small
  • Looking Back

• My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Day
  • Moment
  • Next

• When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.

  

  Fefe Dobson
  • Life
  • Change
  • Start

• I gave a Christmas party last year - well, two Christmases ago - where I did a Sam Cooke show. I didn't perform as R. Kelly. I performed the Sam Cooke show from 1964, when he performed at the Copacabana.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Party
  • Christmas
  • Year

• At 62, I remain clean and sober and my ponytail remains erect.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Clean
  • Sober
  • Ponytail

• I've said this before, and I know this raises questions in the minds of some evangelicals. I do not believe that my mother, who never formally embraced Christianity as far as I know ... I do not believe she went to hell.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • She
  • Mother

• The ideal would be to have a career like Meryl Streep's or Kate Winslet's. It's just unbelievable how they manage to make such incredible choices one after the other. If you could have a career anything like that, then that would be a great thing.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Great
  • Career
  • Choices

• Chicago has definitely played a part in my character development. I love the essence of the city, the personalities of the people, the hard-working spirit that you need to get through the winters. And every neighborhood has its great restaurants and the local hot-dog stand.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • People
  • Great
  • Character

• I hope and assume that every good comedy writer, no matter the age, has a moment where they discover how great Cheers is.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Good
  • Great
  • Hope

• Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.

  

  Clarence Darrow

• There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Hope
  • Powerful