Orison Swett Marden Quotes
Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
Quotes to Explore
-
I like to live in my own mind, regardless of everyone and everything, working out the intimate puzzles that are my stories and novels.
-
I'm very self-critical.
-
I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.
-
To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
-
I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old 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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I'm not a 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.
-
I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
-
I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
-
Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
-
You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.
-
We wish Bill Musgrave all the best in his new role with the Falcons organization. Although it is unfortunate that he departed, we always want what is best for our coaches and their families, which is why we gave Atlanta permission to interview him.
-
I wrote my first song when I was 54 years old.
-
It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.
-
Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnormality. Perhaps a law of evolution is that intelligence usually extinguishes itself.
-
Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
