John Lancaster Spalding Quotes

When we have attained success, we see how inferior it is to the hope, yearning and enthusiasm with which we started forth in life’s morning.

John Lancaster Spalding

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• Success
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• Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.

  

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• Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.

  

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• I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.

  

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• The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.

  

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• Reading is a free practice. I think the readers are free to begin by the books where they want to. They don't have to be led in their reading.

  

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• Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.

  

  Adam Cohen
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• No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.

  

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• When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.

  

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• We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

  

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• Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.

  

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• 'YouKu' means what's best and what's cool in Chinese. So, the whole product philosophy really revolves around how to help users, from a massive video database, finds what's best and what's cool.

  

  Victor Koo
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  • Cool

• No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.

  

  Pat Gillick
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  • Hope

• I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.

  

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• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

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• I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.

  

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• I will say that Marvel is 100 times more secretive than 'Game of Thrones.' Like, they're not even on the same playing field.

  

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• The last possible deed is that which defines perception itself, an invisible golden chord that connects us: illegal dancing in the courthouse corridors.

  

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• I think of myself as a mum who finds the time to go to work. I have to check myself for baby sick before I walk out of the house in the morning. I am really a mum... I know I am a great mother.

  

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• The arts are what makes life worth living. You've got food, you've got shelter, yeah. But the things that make you laugh, make you cry, make you connect - make you love are communicated through the arts. They aren't extras.

  

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• I prefer cynical people. Nice guys grow on trees.

  

  J Mascis
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• Studying music involves a lot of mathematics and a lot of exercises of memory. Or you've got to be able to be like somebody, to play like somebody, to play Mozart's music the way he played it and how he intended it. You've got to make it perfect, and that's not what I want to do. Although it is beautiful.

  

  Benjamin Clementine
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• When we have attained success, we see how inferior it is to the hope, yearning and enthusiasm with which we started forth in life’s morning.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Success