Orison Swett Marden Quotes

Nearly all the great improvements, discoveries, inventions, and achievements which have elevated and blessed humanity have been the triumphs of enthusiasm.

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• Through the history of rock n' roll, you see lots of bands making the mistake of putting on the tights when they get to arenas. Don't do that.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • History
  • Rock
  • Mistake

• There is, therefore, no solution possible other than an economy directed by the workers through their organisations of control-through the workers' syndicates.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Control
  • Economy
  • Possible

• But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Good
  • Eyes
  • Media

• I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Believe
  • Same
  • Generation

• I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Think
  • Angry
  • Start

• I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Great
  • Support
  • Wall

• Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Diversity
  • Just
  • Big

• I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing for a girl, you've got most of the audience on your side anyway.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Writing
  • Girl
  • You

• I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Funny

• If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Fiction

• It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Wish
  • Myself
  • Child

• I have to live within my memories, within my private universe, and continually return to China, the land where my thoughts are locked. This is a very painful kind of existence, this feeling of nowhereness.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Live
  • Feeling
  • Universe

• I would say Hope Solo is competitive.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Hope
  • Say
  • Competitive

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

  

  Orville Wright
  • Fly
  • New York
  • Paris

• I really like looking at what's new in my favourite designers' stores, even if I don't buy anything.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Like
  • New
  • Looking

• I like excess. And giant M&M's.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Like
  • Excess
  • Giant

• You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Death
  • Know
  • Lost

• In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • Power
  • Debt

• What I have learned from working on those great shows is what is the DNA that makes them so deeply involving and interesting for an audience over a long period of time. So much has to do with character, complexity, and sophistication.

  

  Jeremy Podeswa
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• I'm the kind of person, if I see something, like a funny video, I want to share it. With Twitter and Tumblr you can do that on a mass scale, and people get to know your personality.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • People
  • Funny
  • Person

• When I was a kid, of course I wanted to be the fastest, the loudest and the one with the biggest drum set, but obviously my aspirations have changed a bit since then.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Changed
  • Kid
  • Loudest

• My district goes a long ways across the southern part of Ohio, so just the opportunity to get to know so many people is a highlight itself, win or lose.

  

  Brad Wenstrup
  • People
  • Long
  • Opportunity

• Motion picture making is a very, very involved affair. It is completely my baby. I'm a thorough professional. I plan films right from the conception of an idea to its final execution.

  

  Dev Anand
  • Picture
  • Baby
  • Professional

• Nearly all the great improvements, discoveries, inventions, and achievements which have elevated and blessed humanity have been the triumphs of enthusiasm.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Humanity
  • Blessed