Maya Angelou Quotes
I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you.
Quotes to Explore
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I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.
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People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
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I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.
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One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.
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The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better.
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I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
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Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?
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With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.
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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.
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To me, country music's about life. It's about Monday through Friday. It's the blue-collar, 40-hour week, songs about life. It used to have more of a sound, but I think the heart of that's still the same. It's still American music.
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Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.
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I love running the floor and doing crazy dunks. I think I bring a lot of enthusiasm to the team.
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A fighter should not think only of his shete, just because he has a shete in his hand. Everything is a weapon in the warrior's mind.
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The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.
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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.
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Another important thing to learn is that kids have a personality that has nothing to do with you.
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Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.
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I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you.
