John Muir Quotes

It is easier to feel than to realize, or in any way explain, Yosemite grandeur. The magnitudes of the rocks and trees and streams are so delicately harmonized, they are mostly hidden.

John Muir

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• The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Effort
  • Organization

• I really like using the softening cream. It helps me go out there with confidence to do what I need to do, and at the same time, it's very functional and helps keep the hair out of my mouth so I can focus on pitching.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Time
  • Focus
  • Hair

• Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.

  

  Paracelsus
  • World
  • Man
  • Earth

• We run around so much - with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I've gotta clean up the oceans. I've gotta save the dolphins. All worthy efforts, but if you're not centered and you don't have the serenity in your life you need to accomplish that task, you're not going to do a very good job.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I firmly believe that if your environment works for you and your family, it translates into a better life.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Family

• A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • Free
  • Hero
  • Soldier

• My dad, of course, like a lot of Asian parents, wanted me to be an engineer or doctor and never could understand why I would want to be a lawyer. And then, when I first said I wanted to run for office, he thought that was absolutely insane.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Why
  • Parents
  • Dad

• Next time you open the paper, and you see an intellectual property decision, a telecoms decision, it's not about something small and technical. It is about the future of the freedom to be as social beings with each other, and the way information, knowledge and culture will be produced.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Time
  • Future
  • Culture

• Anjelica Huston and Kelly MacDonald are both really special. Anjelica has such a fresh point of view about acting and doesn't seem jaded at all. She seems more like a student and yet she is veteran actor who really brings it.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Acting
  • View
  • Student

• Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • High
  • Education
  • California

• I have worked hard to improve my consistency in my driving, irons, short game, and putting.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Game
  • Driving
  • Short

• No universal selfishness can bring social good to all. Communism - the effort to give all men what they need and to ask of each the best they can contribute - this is the only way of human life.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • Good
  • Men

• I've gotten to know a lot of great people here in all the different sports. It's fun. It's fun to get involved where you live. And this is where I live. I'm a registered voter here. I have my Wisconsin driver's license.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • Great
  • Different

• Mental clarity is the child of courage, not the other way around.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Courage

• Help save the world!

  

  Larry Wall
  • World
  • Help

• Cradle of Letters ! Mistress of the World !Soil of the Sun ! Italia! I salute thee !How oft the human race have worn thy yoke.The vessels of thine arms, thine arts, thy sky !

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • World
  • Sun
  • Sky

• From my perspective, you get up every day and you get out there and you make your case, and you reach as many people as possible. That's what I intend to do. So I'm in it for the long run. It's not a very long run. It will be over by February 5.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• When I went to the Crash premiere I left before they showed the scene of me pulling over Thandie Newton in the car. It was too disturbing. It's a character up there, but I still see me.

  

  Matt Dillon
  • Up
  • Character
  • Car

• From 1971 onwards, the Memorial Day holiday was officially observed on the last Monday in May and became the unofficial start of the summer, with barbecues, blockbuster movie openings and mattress sales.

  

  Allen West
  • May
  • Movie
  • Summer

• The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions, which they won't.

  

  Peter Maxwell Davies
  • Business
  • Present

• People like to say that East Asians in general, and Japanese in particular, are not very expressive: there's that term 'inscrutable.' But often, Europeans just don't get the Asian codes. Believe me, the message is being expressed OK.

  

  David Mitchell
  • People
  • Believe
  • Japanese

• Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.

  

  Joyce Meyer
  • World
  • Perfect
  • Excellence

• It is easier to feel than to realize, or in any way explain, Yosemite grandeur. The magnitudes of the rocks and trees and streams are so delicately harmonized, they are mostly hidden.

  

  John Muir