John Trumbull Quotes
But as some muskets so contrive it As oft to miss the mark they drive at, And though well aimed at dock or plover Bear wide, and kick their owners over.John Trumbull
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
Napoleon Hill -
Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
Pamela Nicholson -
I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
Carl Wilson -
The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the suburbanization of America, the rise of the homeowner, the build-out of the interstate highway system, and the rise of automobile culture. Credit availability expanded dramatically.
Barry Ritholtz -
While I love musical theater, it wasn't the right fit for me. It's so competitive, and I was at such a disadvantage, having started performing when I was 17.
Jack Falahee -
We cannot afford to spend millions and millions over nuclear arms when there is poverty and unemployment all around us.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
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Many great founders have one or more big failures on their track record. What makes them great is that they eventually succeed despite that.
Balaji Srinivasan -
I'm a person who has a lot of energy. So, yes, I don't really stop to rest or de-stress. I just keep going. I figure that if you don't stop, then you'll never notice how tired you are.
Zooey Deschanel -
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
Oscar Wilde -
There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
Fidel Castro -
If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He's literally crazy.'
J. J. Watt -
Americans welcome carbon limits because they want to protect their families from harm.
Frances Beinecke
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I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Slowly, ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions.
Nandan Nilekani -
Lying is a cooperative act. Think about it. A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance. Its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie.
Pamela Meyer -
I was always amazed when people were kind to us.
Patrick Modiano -
There is no mystery in humans creation. Will performs this miracle. But at least there is no true creation without a secret.
Albert Camus -
Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public.
David Herbert Donald
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As you get larger, it is harder to have focused discussions. Because one of the things I've learned about Congress over the past four years that I've been in is there's no shortage of opinions about how things should be done on any particular subject.
Bill Flores -
The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.
Francis Bacon -
I'm evangelical.
Pat Robertson -
If you're an athlete and you completely focus on the body, you're missing other components. Similarly, if you're trying to broaden your mind but not also being attentive to your sense of humour and your spirit, then you're not going to grow and develop so fast.
Aimee Mullins -
But as some muskets so contrive it As oft to miss the mark they drive at, And though well aimed at dock or plover Bear wide, and kick their owners over.
John Trumbull