Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
He who picks up one end of a stick picks up the other. He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.
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Too many executives I've met over the years have the mentality of a bodybuilder; they've come to accept the idea that growth is synonymous with success.
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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
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I like humor: the sort of gentle humor that points out human foibles.
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I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.
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I came from a Hindi medium school... the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium college. Though I was top in my class in school, and I got admission in other colleges, but I really wanted to study in St. Xavier's.
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Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
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When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.
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My definition is that geo-enlightenment is understanding the interconnectedness of things.
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Being able to go into Wimbledon and be part of an amazing atmosphere is special.
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I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there's no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.
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I don't know about happy endings, because I don't think, eventually, anything is happy. You feel a bout of happiness with good news. Five minutes later, there could be a traffic jam or a phone call from an irritating relative or a weird thought, or it could be a tweet that annoys you, and your emotion will flip immediately.
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As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.
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An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.
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I absolutely believe the Internet is passing from its free days into a paid system. Inevitably, I promise you, it will be paid.
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In the lead-up to competitions, I just watch box sets and DVDs and play 'Candy Crush.'
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What resonates culturally with me about Japanese style is that it is very covered up but very sensual.
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What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?
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Very little is needed to make a happy life.
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Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.
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I combine magic and science to create illusions. I work with new media and interactive technologies, things like artificial intelligence or computer vision, and integrate them in my magic.
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You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.
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Yeah, I think we have to. If we want our shows to be - if we want the quality of the shows to be good, and we want the energy to be high, and if we want to be in good enough physical shape to do them, and not exhaust ourselves on the road, and not get stale, we have to pace.
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All of the courses that run through real streets are very demanding. There is no room for error, no shoulders to lean on. If you go off the road, you're into somebody's shop-window or front porch.
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He who picks up one end of a stick picks up the other. He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.
