Sam Levenson Quotes

We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.

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• I write in a small office at home.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Home
  • Small
  • Office

• I made an album of healing music called 'Grace and Gratitude' that came from my soul.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Gratitude

• I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Time
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• I am convinced after more than 50 years in the field of motivation that anyone who wants to learn to look at life and/or their circumstances in a positive light can do so.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Light
  • Positive

• Every parent wants to see their kids excel.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Kids
  • Parent
  • Excel

• I'm a notorious late-night texter. I seem to use a lot of lip, heart, and tongue emoji.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Tongue

• One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Always
  • Things
  • Still

• The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • More
  • Learned
  • Felt

• As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Opportunity
  • Audience
  • Stage

• Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Live
  • High
  • Freedom

• In South Africa, I feel I am a stranger, at best an animal.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Animal
  • Stranger
  • South Africa

• The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Life
  • Art
  • Purpose

• For me to be as effective as possible, I intend to sharpen those skills I need to successfully lead an organization that is growing in size and complexity with each passing year.

  

  Pamela Nicholson
  • Growing
  • Me
  • Organization

• Twice I let people talk me out of good ideas.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Good
  • Ideas

• I love running and I will always run.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Running
  • Always
  • Will

• It's good just to laugh sometimes, and if it comes out of some truth, it's even stronger.

  

  Randee Heller
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Laugh

• If the Numerai fund performs well, that should lead to more assets under management, which should lead to more revenue for Numerai's general partner, which should lead to higher payouts for the data scientists, which implies a higher Numeraire valuation.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • Management
  • Partner
  • Data

• I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable!

  

  Sam Neill
  • Enjoy
  • Cold
  • Choice

• I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting.

  

  Bill Bryson
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Book

• Say this city has ten million souls, Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes: Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, yet there’s no place for us.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • City

• Part of the reason for moving to New York was the sense that it just didn't matter how much work I did in England, I continued to be seen simply as a Redgrave. I did feel I could be who I am in New York and we all like to feel appreciated.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Work
  • Moving
  • New York

• Things forbidden have a secret charm.

  

  Tacitus
  • Secret
  • Charm
  • Forbidden

• My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence.

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Great
  • Soul
  • Eyes

• We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Way
  • Taken
  • Prayer