George Matthew Adams Quotes

No matter what your work today, if it is worth while at all - time to plan it out, time to do it well, and time to finish it, is your day's greatest gift and your greatest job.

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• It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Up
  • Children
  • Mother

• When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Society
  • Sick
  • Liberty

• The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Safe Kids Campaign

• My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.

  

  Nas
  • Music
  • Strong
  • Memories

• The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Work
  • Why

• Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Hope
  • Sometimes
  • Clothes

• I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Kind
  • Cool
  • Sword

• Find a type of exercise that you love - whether it's dance, soccer, softball, anything - just as long as it keeps you active. If you love it, you'll dedicate yourself to it and stay involved.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Dance
  • Exercise
  • Active

• Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Character
  • Funny
  • Voice

• Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Up
  • Time
  • Past

• If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • People
  • Society
  • College

• My first gig was a Corn Pops commercial. I did the first Vanilla Coke campaign. A Juicy Fruit commercial paid my bills for years.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Years
  • First
  • Fruit

• In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Amount
  • Massive
  • Genetics

• I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Girl

• Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Great
  • Done
  • Small

• I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Great
  • Why
  • Always

• I think of myself as writing realist American fiction. 'Cynical but hopeful' wouldn't be the worst thing I've ever been called.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Writing
  • American
  • Myself

• Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Important
  • Business
  • Own

• To have peace with this peculiar life; to accept what we do not understand; to wait calmly for what awaits us, you have to be wiser than I am.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Life
  • Peace

• Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Great
  • Long
  • Down

• Topshop is one of my favourite shops, and I love shoes by Giuseppe Zanotti. There's a graduate fashion designer called Kate Falcus who makes me beautiful commissioned pieces - one of my favourites was the white Glastonbury dress she made me with the puffy skirt.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Beautiful
  • Fashion
  • Designer

• I don't think you can be a mysterious rock star the same way you could in 1965 because there's too much information. Everything you do is available all the time. So the only thing you can rely on is not being false.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Time
  • Rock
  • Star

• Yeah I'm in love with the girl in the four-wheel driveChrome steel bumpers and red step sideShe has a large time in her large machineMan I wonder how she gets up in that thingIt casts a big shadow sittin' in the sunShe's got it revved up rockin' ready to runAnd someday soon I'm gonna climb right upAnd take a little ride in her big ol' truck.

  

  Toby Keith
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  • Time
  • She

• No matter what your work today, if it is worth while at all - time to plan it out, time to do it well, and time to finish it, is your day's greatest gift and your greatest job.

  

  George Matthew Adams
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