James Boswell Quotes
My curiosity to see the melancholy spectacle of the executions was so strong that I could not resist it, although I was sensible that I would suffer much from it.... I got upon a scaffold near the fatal tree so that I could clearly see all the dismal scene.... I was most terribly shocked, and thrown into a very deep melancholy.
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I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.
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Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting.
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Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.
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The types of melodies I tend to write kind of have this bittersweet quality; they're meant to be uplifting but kind of have this melancholy vibe to it.
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You find that you can have the best business in the most exciting industry, but if the execution, if the torch-holder, if the value-creator isn't there, then we don't make it happen.
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Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.
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Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.
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Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.
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I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
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The good thing about execution issues are that they are within our control.
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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.
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Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
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Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
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I wasn't intentionally trying to be different, but that was an element of what I naturally do that happened to be unique enough to spark a curiosity for people.
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One path is greed, the second is curiosity. With one, the journey is to a reward; with the other, the journey is the reward.
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Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything.
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I want to keep working with the best, keep going and be a better actor each time I go and dive into something.
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As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.
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What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?
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My curiosity to see the melancholy spectacle of the executions was so strong that I could not resist it, although I was sensible that I would suffer much from it.... I got upon a scaffold near the fatal tree so that I could clearly see all the dismal scene.... I was most terribly shocked, and thrown into a very deep melancholy.
