Orison Swett Marden Quotes

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

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• I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Day
  • Always
  • Start

• I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.

  

  Kate Adie
  • World
  • Women
  • Woman

• I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

  

  J. Irwin Miller
  • Myself
  • Person
  • Found

• To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Things
  • Tennis

• I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • Work
  • Think
  • Habits

• Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Good
  • Hair
  • Red

• English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • Men
  • Trying
  • American

• I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Fall
  • Race
  • Back

• Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • Passion
  • For Her

• I'm not a Democrat.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Democrat

• You'd think after 8 years of things called 'The Patriot Act' and 'No Child Left Behind' they would know that we have figured out the 'Call it what it ain't' PR ploy by now, but... um... no.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Think
  • Know
  • Child

• I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • People
  • Art
  • Write

• I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Good And Bad

• Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Play
  • Wall
  • Down

• We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Think
  • Moral
  • Animals

• Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Never
  • Smart
  • Living

• I was doing a tour of the 'Batman' live stage production, and I challenged the cast to join me to run. One time, we were running in Switzerland just before Christmas, and it was heavy snow. Another time, we were running down the Seine in Paris on Christmas Day, and we all had Santa hats on.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Time
  • Live
  • Running

• Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

  

  Jean Rostand
  • Men
  • Science

• I mean, this whole digital revolution is really eroding the director's importance on a movie because, number one, just from a practical standpoint, with floppy disks and the ability to put all of the film onto a disk, more people have access to the movie.

  

  John Frankenheimer
  • People
  • Movie
  • Revolution

• In a new interview, Newt Gingrich says he cheated on two of his wives because he was too consumed with love for his country. Yeah, apparently he misunderstood the phrase, 'Please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance.'

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Country
  • Interview
  • Allegiance

• The thing about the classics it that they are such great characters, they have a great deal of depth and different layers to them. I always find that very stimulating to play.

  

  Frances O'Connor
  • Great
  • Different
  • Always

• For most of us, the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it. We will just skim our lives instead of actually living them.

  

  John Ortberg
  • Great
  • Faith

• Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Effort
  • Doing