Nevil Shute Quotes
Differential equations won't help you much in the design of aeroplanes — not yet, anyhow.
Nevil Shute
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Whenever I go to a new city, whether visiting or vacationing, I would always make that a point to get to the record store early on, just to get my bearings and see what was going on around town.
Gary Calamar
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No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
H. L. Mencken
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
Ramez Naam
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My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
Warren Spector
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
Beck Bennett
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
Dan Pink
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
Orison Swett Marden
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
Fidel Castro
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
Manuel Puig
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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
Imelda Marcos
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Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao Tzu
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Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.
Saint Ignatius
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People just assume, over the years, that soccer players are not too intelligent. As with most assumptions, they're wrong.
David Beckham
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Design your financial future in every respect, and then make a plan to achieve it.
Brian Tracy
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We must show charity towards the sick, who are in greater need of help. Let us take them some small gift if they are poor, or, at least let us go and wait on them and comfort them.
Alphonsus Liguori
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My family supported me. I wasn't hot-housed at all as a young child; I didn't go to any kind of gifted school. They didn't exist in the very poor parts of England when I grew up in the 1980s. I had a great time to learn, had access to libraries and teachers who were patient and enthusiastic when I showed ability in some subjects.
Daniel Tammet
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I grew up around a whole bunch of girls, and one thing I realized is what they had on their plate was very different than what I had on mine. The things girls are made to be responsible for is a heavy burden - take care of your younger siblings, do good in school, have some extracurriculars. The pressure is intense.
Jason Reynolds
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Differential equations won't help you much in the design of aeroplanes — not yet, anyhow.
Nevil Shute
