James Truslow Adams Quotes

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

James Truslow Adams

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• Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Work
  • Best
  • Doing

• Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.

  

  Jack Herer
  • World
  • Religious
  • Creative

• The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Women
  • Children
  • School

• I have written a picture book that is based on my daughters. You know, my youngest one likes to tell everybody, 'Mommy wrote 'Best Day Ever' about us.' Which is true.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Book
  • True
  • Day

• I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Me
  • Dare
  • Totally

• It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Song
  • You
  • Should

• I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Me
  • Forever
  • Rap

• I didn't just get to 75 years by tiptoeing. I had to work hard sometimes.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Work
  • Sometimes
  • Work Hard

• It's important to ask candidates about their beliefs, in part because politicians frequently exploit religious faith - often with the idea that voters will be more likely to unthinkingly accept certain political positions so long as they arise from religious belief.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Important
  • Long
  • Political

• A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Good
  • Great
  • Player

• I was shocked when 'The Hobbit' ended where it ended. I wasn't paying attention to what they were doing; I didn't know they had another movie, and I couldn't believe it was when the dragon came out.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Believe
  • Movie
  • Attention

• It's interesting, the things you learn when you're 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if you're not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Learn

• Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Value
  • Like
  • Proverbs

• People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Think
  • Team

• I have a box of things from Becca, my high school girlfriend, and Vanessa; and each one of them was love. I have the notes, the valentines, 20 mixed tapes, all of it. It's important to keep that stuff.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Important
  • Stuff
  • Notes

• The magnificent cosmos is a palace that has the sun and the moon as its lamps and the stars as its candles; time is like a rope or ribbon hung within it, on to which the Glorious Creator each year threads a new world.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Time
  • World
  • Sun

• I played Miley Cyrus' grandma on 'Hannah Montana,' and the first time I was on, they said, 'We love having veterans like you on because she's like a little sponge, and she's really appreciative of all the veterans that are coming on the show, and we just love that you're teaching her.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Time
  • Teaching
  • Appreciative

• I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me. I know that it's really hard to do, but I feel like I want to have a chance to try and translate something I've written and try and get a tone across.

  

  Dana Fox
  • Chance
  • Direct
  • Tone

• Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

  

  Max Beckmann
  • Art

• When you're offered things, it makes it so much easier to be indecisive. And it's silly because you can pass on some really amazing things.

  

  Alicia Silverstone
  • Amazing
  • Silly

• I don't have a moral plan, I'm a Canadian.

  

  David Cronenberg
  • Moral

• I love bugs. And as the first person to popularize their eating in America, I take special pride in seeing their appreciation soar.

  

  Andrew Zimmern
  • America
  • Pride
  • Appreciation

• The real bubble in China is in US Treasuries, in US dollars.

  

  Peter Schiff
  • Real

• Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

  

  James Truslow Adams
  • Real
  • Attitude