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

• 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

• People need to know that they are not alone, that they have not been abandoned; but that there is One Who loves them for what they are, Who cares about them.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • People
  • Know
  • Alone

• The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

  

  Ovid
  • Win
  • Horse
  • Try

• There are ups and downs in so many relationships, but with Shah Rukh, there is deep love. There's no other way of communicating the respect and love I have for him. And I believe that ours will be a dynamic, and relationship and connect that will be forever.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Believe
  • Way
  • Respect

• The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors.

  

  Amy Adams
  • Great
  • Together

• I'm a fun song maker. I love to make people smile. I also love to see them big, burly dudes crying because their wives' song is 'Die a Happy Man.'

  

  Thomas Rhett
  • People
  • Happy
  • Fun

• It used to be that, when something strange happened, we'd hear on the news 'Police believe this is the act of an isolated nut.' On the internet there are no isolated nuts; whatever kind of nut you are, you can find fifty nuts in the world exactly like you.

  

  Bruce Perens
  • World
  • Believe
  • Police

• My teammates tell me to shoot the ball when I'm open. I feel like I'm open most of the time, so I shoot it.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Time
  • Me
  • Teammates

• 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