Walter Scott Quotes
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.Walter Scott
Quotes to Explore
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
Warren Weaver -
No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
M. Emmet Walsh -
Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
Carla Bley -
You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
Jack Kemp -
We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
Larry Page -
If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
W. C. Fields
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
Gaby Hoffmann -
The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.
Otto Schily -
Usually when I take my films to festivals, I feel incredibly anxious about them. I wonder how it will be received, how the audience will react. I feel deeply responsible for them.
Abbas Kiarostami -
Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.
Ian Watson -
I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
Gary Johnson
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The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'
Dan Pfeiffer -
Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them.
Sally Quinn -
Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.
Ian Frazier -
Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.
Cavour -
Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win.
Patricia Hewitt -
The more I find out about the dynamic and how it works, the more I realize how lucky I am to have ever got anything. Like... there was no need to put me in 'Cinderella Man' - there was no need. Why? Just get an American actor - it would've been cheaper, probably.
Paddy Considine
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When you step away from doing something that you have always been doing and then you return to it, you have a different perspective. You get that desire and the will to strike at everything.
Preity Zinta -
Let your kids pick their punishments. Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around. It's easier, and we're usually right! But it rarely works.
Bruce Feiler -
99.99% of your creation is complete before you see ANY physical evidence of it.
Esther Hicks -
Try not to say, 'I'm a failure.' Instead, ask, 'What can I do better? What did I do wrong?' Then re-approach.
Jillian Michaels -
Often, it's the little things, like the title of a song, that can make a huge difference in its success.
Jeremih Felton -
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
Walter Scott