Orison Swett Marden Quotes

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

Orison Swett Marden

• Eye
• Spring
• Obstacles

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I like to stay home. I don't want to be away shooting in Europe for six or eight months at a stretch.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Home
  • Want
  • Europe

• The reality is we talk a lot about it, but we really don't give everyone an opportunity to buy into it, and this combines both the best of Republican and Democratic ideals.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Reality
  • Opportunity
  • Best

• What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Life
  • Childhood

• People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

  

  Dale Turner
  • People
  • Progress
  • Adventure

• If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Stop
  • Perfect
  • Language

• My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Present

• I don't think about whether it's gonna be a dance record or a ballad or anything when I'm making music. I sit in the studio and I think, 'How am I feeling today?' and I write how I feel. It's really, really simple.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Today
  • Feeling

• People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Remember
  • Tree

• This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • Think
  • Pain

• Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.

  

  Cameron van der Burgh
  • Career
  • Never
  • Swimming

• A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Bad
  • Day
  • Hair

• What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • True
  • Government

• Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Profession
  • Fatigue
  • Reinventing

• I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Think
  • Responsibility

• I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in a very Jewish neighbourhood and thought the whole world was like that. My parents were secular, but I went to a very Orthodox Jewish school, and I really got into it. I found it all fascinating, and I was just kind of really attracted to the metaphysical questions.

  

  Larry Charles
  • Up
  • World
  • School

• My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Business
  • Like
  • Deal

• You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Me
  • Artist
  • Vision

• I have a dark sense of humor.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Dark
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• I always keep my eye focused on what I would and want to wear.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Focus
  • Eye
  • Wear

• I have been given eyes to see and a mind to think, and now I know a great secret of life, for I perceive, at last, that all my problems, discouragements , and heartaches are, in truth, great opportunities in disguise.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Life
  • Great
  • Thinking

• That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Up
  • Real
  • Action

• And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition, you must first examine it to see whether it is acceptable, because our reason was created by God, and whatever pleases our reason can but please divine reason, of which, for that matter, we know only what we infer from the processes of our own reason by analogy and often by negation.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • God
  • Believe
  • Matter

• I was very limited in what I could do with flying saucers, because they're just a metal disc. I had to try and put character in as if they were intelligently guided.

  

  Ray Harryhausen
  • Character
  • Limited
  • Metal

• Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Eye
  • Spring
  • Obstacles