Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes

Human nature is above all things lazy.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

  

  Jack Welch
  • You
  • Change
  • Lead

• Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Democracy
  • Human
  • Moderation

• When you start losing market share, it's really tough to gain it back; you need the product portfolio and presence in many markets.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Start
  • Losing
  • Tough

• I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Time
  • Morning
  • Yoga

• I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Little
  • Got
  • Tomboy

• I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Writing
  • Singing
  • Dreams

• Dance should mean something to you.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • You
  • Mean
  • Dance

• It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Deep

• To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Life
  • Success
  • Man

• I love working with women.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Women
  • Love
  • Working

• Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Country
  • Political
  • Wish

• A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Home
  • Story
  • Comfort

• If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Lose
  • Terms

• If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Change
  • Living
  • Grow

• Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • American
  • Doubt
  • Conversation

• When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury of being a writer-director.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Writing
  • Movie
  • Pretty

• I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Long
  • Soul

• When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Determination

• P is positive emotion, E is engagement, R is relationships, M is meaning and A is accomplishment. Those are the five elements of what free people chose to do. Pretty much everything else is in service of one of or more of these goals. That's the human dashboard.

  

  Martin Seligman
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Free

• Has not the experience of two centuries shown that gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice? Is there an instance, in the history of the world, where slaves have been educated for freedom by their task-masters?

  

  William Lloyd Garrison
  • World
  • Slave
  • Century

• When you're nursing and you're working 18-hour days, that's pretty hard.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Pretty
  • You
  • Working

• I'd love to be a part of 'Star Wars.' I'd be a Sith, of course - I'm English! We've got the voice, and it's perfect for the bad guys.

  

  Jamie Campbell Bower
  • Bad
  • Perfect
  • Star

• Once you have set the goal, give your staff the space to get there. If you micromanage, you will be able to do very little.

  

  Arundhati Bhattacharya
  • Space

• Human nature is above all things lazy.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Nature
  • Lazy
  • Human Nature