Orison Swett Marden Quotes

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

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• My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Own
  • Reach
  • My Own

• I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • People
  • Work
  • Learn

• The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Practice
  • First
  • Building

• Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • World
  • Wonder
  • Recognise

• Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.

  

  Malcolm Lowry
  • Dog
  • End
  • Will

• A man is what he thinks about all day long.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Long
  • Man
  • Day

• I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Night
  • Same
  • Chicago

• One of the things I have to do, and I'm working on it, is making sure I enjoy the ride along the way. I have to remind myself, 'Take a look around, look at things, and enjoy it.'

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Myself
  • Enjoy
  • Ride

• I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Thinking
  • Day
  • Study

• When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

  

  Irving Layton
  • You
  • Clever
  • Convince

• Early in the morning, it's super tough for me to eat right away, but I still need energy for practice. I try to start out with a protein smoothie, a green juice, or some sort of fruit.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Energy
  • Morning
  • Practice

• One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Men
  • Women
  • Goals

• I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Music
  • Band
  • '80s

• I love women's bodies. I love luxury.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Women
  • Love
  • Luxury

• Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Wall

• I'm a really bad liar.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Bad
  • Really
  • Liar

• My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Powerful
  • Woman
  • Afraid

• There's no way I would have got to see so much of the world, with my humble background, without modelling. We were penniless and hungry for most of my youth. I washed the sheets in the bathtub in my bedroom and hung them out of the window on the clothes line, which in winter was difficult as the sheets would freeze and get stuck to the line.

  

  Carmen Dell'Orefice
  • World
  • Winter
  • Humble

• I wasn't remembering the gift that God had given me. I had totally put all that aside. And my daughter was growing up before my eyes, and I just wanted to grab hold of that. It goes by so fast. I wanted to watch her. I wanted to be that parent - because at that point in time, I was a single parent. Watch her go to school, and when she got home, be there. I wanted that moment.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Up
  • Time
  • God

• I'm pretty aware that the pursuit of perfection is, inherently, a flawed concept.

  

  Jonny Wilkinson
  • Pretty

• Anybody you make a movie with when you're 12 and they're 14, you're going to know them your whole life.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Life
  • Movie
  • You

• I've become pretty philosophical about a lot of things, including death. It doesn't get to me.

  

  Gene Wilder
  • Pretty
  • Death
  • Philosophical

• Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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