James Allen Quotes

The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot.

James Allen

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• I voted for Barack Obama.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Barack Obama
  • Obama
  • Barack

• I'm very soulful. I grew up singing in church. When I sing a song, I like to feel what I'm singing.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Up
  • Song
  • Church

• It was never about winning medals or being famous.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Never
  • Winning
  • Famous

• Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Great
  • Important
  • Country

• I don't want to be the type of person to have my relationships plastered in magazines.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Want
  • Person
  • Relationships

• I think it would be shocking for me to pretend not to have any past. And also, it would be a lie.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Think
  • Past
  • Lie

• Sometimes you're famous before you're good.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Good
  • Sometimes
  • Famous

• My brother Art was a doo-wopper. He had a group that sat out on a park bench in New Orleans and sang harmonies at night, and they'd go around and win all the talent shows and get all the girls, you know.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Art
  • Night
  • Brother

• We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Live
  • Religion
  • Meditation

• The idea of Twitter started with me working in dispatch since I was 15 years old, where taxi cabs or firetrucks would broadcast where they were and what they were doing.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Idea
  • Working
  • Twitter

• In Japan, a company worker's position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present job is eliminated by productivity improvement.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Job
  • Present
  • Company

• An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour, or that less labour creates the same product with more capital.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Value
  • Productivity

• You are creating a Frankenstein. - Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, concerned about the growing strength of the Islamist movement, told President George H. W. Bush.

  

  Benazir Bhutto
  • Growing

• You can never teach them, except by the slow lesson of habit.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Habit

• Near this spotAre deposited the Remains of oneWho possessed Beauty without Vanity,Strength without Insolence,Courage without Ferocity,And all the virtues of Man, without his Vices.This Praise, which would be unmeaning FlatteryIf inscribed over human ashes,Is but a just tribute to the Memory ofBOATSWAIN, a DOG

  

  Lord Byron
  • Courage
  • Dog

• A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Life
  • Great
  • True

• Metaphysicians and politicians may dispute forever, but they will never find any other moral principle or foundation of rule or obedience, than the consent of governors and governed.

  

  John Adams
  • May
  • Forever
  • Moral

• Bin Laden is dead. Al-Qaida eventually will die. But the model that al-Qaida has created of an asymmetric terror group that has enormous consequences in the world well beyond the size of the group, that's going to endure. Other groups are going to try to follow that model.

  

  Lawrence Wright
  • World
  • Die
  • Model

• My anxiety comes from people watching me more and knowing more about me. But the feeling of entering a room where you don’t know anyone but you feel like everyone’s talking about you, that alone is. It’s like getting on a train and not knowing if someone’s trying to take a sneaky picture.

  

  Maya Jama
  • People
  • Picture
  • Anxiety

• I tend to be a person who starts with the presumption that I should trust you until you abuse the privilege, and then our relationship is forever changed. That's a very big line, and chances are it's not going to work if it's crossed. I warn people that this is how I'm going to deal with it.

  

  Penny Pritzker
  • People
  • Work
  • Relationship

• The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke George Hazard. He stumbled through the dark hallway, then upstairs to the mansion tower, and stepped outside into the narrow balcony.

  

  John Jakes
  • House
  • Dark
  • Fire

• Art is craft: all art is always and essentially a work of craft: but in the true work of art, before the craft and after it, is some essential durable core of being, which is what the craft works on, and shows, and sets free. The statue in the stone. How does the artist find that, see it, before it's visible? That is a real question.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Work
  • Real
  • Art

• I don't love cinematography that's very flashy because I find that it keeps the audience from becoming a part of the film; it becomes sort of self-reflective.

  

  Rachel Morrison
  • Film
  • Audience
  • Find

• The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot.

  

  James Allen