John Lubbock Quotes

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

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• Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Better
  • motivation

• Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Time
  • Great
  • America

• Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Day
  • Taken
  • Boy

• I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now - a mix of everything.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Choose
  • Now
  • Classical

• When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Film
  • First
  • Camera

• The nonphysical law allows you to use nonphysical causes to create nonphysical effects and also physical effects. This does not mean that you are not in control of what you create. On the contrary! It means that you are entirely free to create what you want, provided you are aware of how the nonphysical law of cause and effect works.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Free
  • Law
  • Control

• Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.

  

  Karel Capek
  • World
  • Work
  • Men

• There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Story
  • Should
  • Often

• It's so easy to look foolish online.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Look
  • Easy
  • Foolish

• I like to race, not to do laps alone.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • Alone
  • Like
  • Race

• I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Homosexual
  • Chastity
  • Vows

• Do your best, one shot at a time and then move on. Remember that golf is just a game.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Game

• The fashion industry really welcomed me with open arms and open hearts. They've been very accepting of my faith. I have strict wardrobe requirements, and that's something they've upheld.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Faith
  • Me
  • Fashion

• Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Religious
  • Target
  • Radical

• My grandmother worked at one of those Bel-Air mansions, and we would go - not too often, but every now and then - to pick her up. Hollywood was probably 12 miles from my house, but it might as well have been a million miles away. The only time I saw that world was on TV. Until I started making records.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• American literature has always been immigrant.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • American
  • Always
  • Literature

• My philosophy is to not be scared of anyone. If I play well, great; if I don't, I learn from the match and move on.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Great
  • Learn
  • Philosophy

• What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• I think everything happens for a reason and all the things that happened to me - good, bad - I'm glad they did. It's made me ready for life, for adulthood.

  

  Freddy Adu
  • Life
  • Good
  • Bad

• I invite all those who share my anxiety about, and hopes for, the future, and who burn with the desire for a political rebirth, to enlist with us. And addressing myself especially to the young, I invite them to become the vanguard in this sortie of national reconstruction. For a proud and happy Greece!

  

  Konstantinos Karamanlis
  • Happy
  • Future
  • Political

• I think I succeeded in getting the Egyptian people excited about the importance of science, and this is the only way Egypt can get out of this dark ages.

  

  Ahmed Zewail
  • People
  • Science
  • Dark

• If we hit the debt ceiling, that's... essentially defaulting on our obligations, which is totally unprecedented in American history. The impact on the economy would be catastrophic.

  

  Austan Goolsbee
  • American
  • History

• But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.

  

  Eddie Bracken
  • Work
  • Stage
  • Excitement

• A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

  

  John Lubbock
  • Work
  • Worry