John Steinbeck Quotes

A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. A plan once made and visualized becomes a reality along with other realities-never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked.

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• Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Job
  • Know

• I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Like
  • Hip Hop

• People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Day
  • Media

• I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Great
  • Write
  • Songs

• Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.

  

  Sally Ride
  • American
  • Space
  • Responsibility

• The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Desire
  • Destruction
  • Risks

• The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Great
  • War
  • China

• Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Memory

• At the Cruiserweight Classic finale, I said... I don't know if people had looked it up, or if they had heard it before, but it was an old Zen proverb. 'Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, you chop wood, carry water.' It can be interpreted a lot of ways, but for the most part it's about staying in the moment.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • People
  • Up
  • Water

• The squandering of oil and gas is associated with one of the greatest tragedies, not in the least resolved, which is suffered by humankind: climate change.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Change
  • Oil
  • Climate Change

• Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Know
  • Doing

• When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.'

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Senior
  • Happening
  • Prom

• Carter's done a lot more good since he's been out of the White House than when he was in it.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Good
  • Done
  • House

• The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.

  

  Nancy Allen
  • Work
  • Understanding
  • Safe

• I wrote about wasting time, which I suppose is a part of the great human journey. We're supposed to wallow, to go through the desert without water for a long time so that when we finally drink it, we'll truly need it and we won't spill a drop. It's about being present.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • People
  • Good
  • Good People

• We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Great
  • Sad
  • Congress

• I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • Good
  • God
  • Love

• Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Real
  • Money
  • Strong

• My first job was a film called 'Storm Damage' for the BBC. I was 16 and working with really respected British actors. I didn't have an agent at the time, and it kind of threw me into real acting.

  

  Ashley Madekwe
  • Time
  • Real
  • Job

• No one is going to break me. No one is going to stop me. No one is going to remove a vision that I see for myself and the love that's in my heart.

  

  Karen Civil
  • Heart
  • Stop
  • Vision

• I had to have a lot of jobs until I was supporting myself through music, but I knew that those jobs were all leading me to something. It was all, again, about taking things one step at a time, one day at a time.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Time
  • Music
  • Jobs

• And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • United States
  • Not Believe
  • Bores

• A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. A plan once made and visualized becomes a reality along with other realities-never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked.

  

  John Steinbeck
  • Real
  • Reality