George Eliot Quotes

As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it.

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• Teach us to give and not to count the cost.

  

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• You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.

  

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• What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

  

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• I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.

  

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• If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.

  

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• At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.

  

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• Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.

  

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• Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.

  

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• I started with the Target Company in 1993 when their Christmas theme that year was 'It's A Wonderful Life,' and they reunited the actors who played the Bailey kids. So we went all over and really had a blast getting the love from all of the fans and thought, 'Whoopty-doo, there's something going on here.'

  

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• Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.

  

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• Whether it's 'The West Wing' or anything else, my first thought is always, 'What's a good story?'

  

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• Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don`t need, with money they don`t have, in order to impress others who don`t care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today.

  

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• You see I thought love got easier over the years so it didn't hurt so bad when it hurt, or feel so good when it felt good. I thought it smoothed out and old people hardly noticed it. I thought it curled up and died, I guess. Now I saw it rear up like a whip and lash.

  

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• As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it.

  

  George Eliot
  • People
  • Church
  • Minds