John Muir Quotes
This time it is real - all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
Quotes to Explore
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important.
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Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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Fashion breaks my heart.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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I started out doing musicals.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.
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I can't really go without being noticed. I'll keep my head a bit lower than usual. I've got to keep my head out of trouble, because if it goes on, it would be 'Harry Potter boy this, Harry Potter boy that.'
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One of my life's principles is to develop myself to the maximum of my potential in all ways and to help others do the same.
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As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.
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This time it is real - all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
