Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes

Don't be 'consistent', but be simply true.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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• As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Time
  • True
  • Want

• Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • True
  • Happiness

• I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.

  

  Flume
  • Trying
  • True
  • Success

• I love watching great TV, whether it's to educate myself more on my craft or to just simply be entertained.

  

  Rachel G. Fox
  • Great
  • Educate
  • Craft

• I'd rather have people really be able to step back and get their money's worth and look at me as a true artist than somebody who is just regurgitating other material.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • People
  • Money
  • True

• True love bears all, endures all and triumphs!

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • For Her
  • For Him
  • True Love

• If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • True
  • Want
  • Man

• The one thing that's going to get you through this business is having strong roots, being grounded and knowing what is true.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Business
  • True
  • Strong

• The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • God
  • War
  • True

• Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • True
  • Understanding
  • Happiness

• Competing in London would be a dream come true.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • True
  • Dream
  • London

• I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Up
  • Real
  • True

• 'Planet Earth' was such an extraordinary series and the 'Making Of'... is fascinating: the creatures and stories behind the camera are just as fascinating as those in front. It's a bit of a dream come true to be a part of the team in some small way.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • True
  • Dream
  • Earth

• It's true that hydropower exploitation can bring economic development, but not necessarily to the benefit of local people.

  

  Ma Jun
  • People
  • True
  • Development

• There's always been that theory that if a candidate can't run a decent campaign, he probably can't run a decent presidency. That might be true, although sadly I must admit that running a brilliant campaign does not translate into running a brilliant White House.

  

  Gail Collins
  • True
  • House
  • Running

• To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Truth
  • True
  • Afraid

• In 'Power Play', Finder uses the thriller structure to make pointed observations about gender in the workplace, the corporate caste system, and the true nature of risk in the global business environment.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Business
  • Power
  • True

• It's good to raise awareness that men and boys are struggling, at least many of them are. But why say men are finished? It's too harsh, too sweeping, and it happens to not be true.

  

  Christina Hoff Sommers
  • Good
  • Men
  • Why

• When there's ever a breakthrough, a true breakthrough, you can go back and find a time period when the consensus was 'well, that's nonsense!' so what that means is that a true creative researcher has to have confidence in nonsense.

  

  Burt Rutan
  • Time
  • True
  • Confidence

• Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Friends
  • Democracy
  • United

• I would like to assure you that there is no organization or any sort of repression against people who don’t agree with our actions, for example in Ukraine, Crimea, or any other external issue, no one from official government organs do this.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • Action
  • Example

• There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Dream
  • Fear
  • Failure

• Don't be 'consistent', but be simply true.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • True
  • Consistent
  • Simply