John Muir Quotes

Most people are on the world, not in it - have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them - undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

John Muir

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• Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • May
  • Faith
  • Belief

• Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

  

  Ovid
  • Return
  • Wave
  • Nor

• Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • May
  • Truth
  • Day

• The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Problem
  • Impossible
  • Rich

• It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Up
  • Work
  • Single

• I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • People
  • Why
  • Business

• We know that reading to children is a crucial step. From the beginning, babies who are read to are exposed to the cadence of language, and school-age children who read at home for 15 minutes a day are exposed to millions of words.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Children
  • School
  • Home

• A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Man
  • Become
  • Atheist

• When you feel stuck in a hard time, jump-start a pro-change attitude by letting go of possessions that no longer work for you - like old clothes and old shoes.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Time
  • Work
  • Attitude

• Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Time
  • Different
  • Movie

• Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• It's just difficult to see that people want to be like the actors and the performers and the politicians who are - who they see all the time, but the people that are probably having the most fun are the writers and the directors and the producers and the scientists, right, the people in the back that are getting to do the creative process.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • People
  • Time
  • Fun

• But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • People
  • Life
  • Rest

• All I can say is, I don't talk about the personal stuff. It's the one thing you can keep to yourself. At least you try to.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Yourself
  • Try
  • Talk

• As an Ambassador for PSI and a supporter of Nothing But Nets, I have met individuals around the world who are lending their ideas, their voices, and their time to improve their communities and the world at large. And there are millions more that I have not met.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Time
  • World
  • Ideas

• I love 'Scrubs.' It's the best day job in the world.

  

  Zach Braff
  • World
  • Job
  • Day

• Political hypocrisy and racism make me hot under the collar.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Political
  • Racism
  • Hypocrisy

• I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Director

• If something comes along that's really good, and I think I would be good for it, I'd be happy to do it. But not too many came along. I mean, they came along for the first, I don't know, 15, 18 films, but I didn't do that many. But then I didn't want to do the kind of junk I was seeing.

  

  Gene Wilder
  • Good
  • Happy

• On some level, now, we are joining the larger world and realizing that we are connected with people in these very scary ways, sometimes. What happened recently in Spain affects us here and brings questions up. It is too bad that people have to be shaken up in that way.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I was and I always shall be hampered by what I think other people will say.

  

  Violette Leduc
  • People
  • Thinking

• I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it.

  

  David Blaine
  • Magic

• Often the work of the Lord itself may be a temptation to keep us from that communion with Him which is so essential to the benefit of our own souls.

  

  George Muller
  • Work
  • May
  • Temptation

• Most people are on the world, not in it - have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them - undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

  

  John Muir
  • People
  • World
  • Relationship