John Templeton Quotes

I focus on spiritual wealth now, and I'm busier, more enthusiastic, and more joyful than I have ever been.

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• Your agent should be invested in the success of your book past the contract stage. After all, if it sells well, she's going to be getting 15 percent of every dime you make. She can be your best advocate in fighting for your book - not just with editing and the cover, but with marketing and sales as well.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • She
  • Book
  • Success

• The main threat to the future of Europe is not those who want to come here to live but our own political, economic, and intellectual elites bent on transforming Europe against the clear will of the European people.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Live
  • Future

• I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Earth
  • Like
  • Nothing

• If the 2016 election is any indication, every four years, millions more Americans will continue backing away from their own parties to choose a third party instead.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Party
  • Choose
  • Election

• I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Silence

• I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.

  

  Vash Young
  • Money
  • Business
  • Man

• I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Work
  • Money
  • Looking

• I don't think my competition is with the heroes. I don't think I'm competing with anyone. I don't mean to sound Zen, but genuinely, when I stopped competing with anything is when I started enjoying my work, and that brought out the best in me. I'm living in a universe of my own, and I'm enjoying that. I love to appreciate other people's work.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Work
  • Universe
  • Appreciate

• One of the best essays I've seen in recent years was by a young woman who wrote about how being chosen to choreograph a high school musical forced her to assume a leadership role she wasn't sure she was ready for - but of course she was.

  

  Kate Klise
  • School
  • She
  • High

• I have always appreciated the honest brutality of the international film world. One need never doubt one's worth in the market. Mine was zero.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • World
  • Never
  • Doubt

• I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Want
  • Thought
  • Model

• Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Profession
  • Fatigue
  • Reinventing

• No adultery is bloodless.

  

  Natalia Ginzburg
  • Adultery
  • Bloodless

• I think you can totally be a totally normal kid from the suburbs of Chicago and go off and play shows. It's one of those things that when you go home, you're still the nerd you were when you left, and your parents still get to yell at you about cleaning up your room, and your girlfriend still drags you to the pet store.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Up
  • Home
  • Parents

• My appetite for public policy and changing it, and not only being a part of the conversation, but affecting it in a positive way, never diminished after 10 years in Congress.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Positive
  • Conversation

• I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Sports
  • Basketball
  • Tennis

• I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Celebrity

• So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Up
  • Always
  • Childhood

• No, I am who I am. I'm not going to change for anybody.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Change

• I don't really enjoy working in TV, to be completely honest. Even though it's incredibly lucrative, I'm just terrified of not being satiated in a myriad of different ways.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Different
  • Enjoy
  • Working

• I'm thinking about a few weeks in Montreal to work with a producer I met there.

  

  Kimbra Lee Johnson
  • Work
  • Thinking

• I focus on spiritual wealth now, and I'm busier, more enthusiastic, and more joyful than I have ever been.

  

  John Templeton
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  • Spiritual