Ernest Hemingway Quotes

Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

Ernest Hemingway

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• Engaged, enthusiastic, and loyal employees are pivotal drivers of growth and health in any organization.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Health
  • Growth
  • Organization

• As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Life
  • Rich
  • Grow

• My last series was on A.B.C., a one-hour called 'My Generation'. Critics liked it. I was on for two weeks, and that was a tough one.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Generation
  • Tough
  • Last

• Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Growing

• I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Sometimes
  • Angry
  • Perception

• Unfortunately, we have seen terrorist groups use social media to spread hateful propaganda, to recruit members, and to incite violence with alarming effectiveness.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Violence
  • Social Media

• Actors make less than you think.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Think
  • You
  • Less

• Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Never
  • Laws
  • Take

• I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Singing

• Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • People
  • World
  • God

• And I had a lot to play, which is what you want as an actor.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Want
  • You
  • Play

• Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is time. If you call it existence, it is existence, and so on. After calling it time, you divide it into days and nights, months, years, hours, minutes, etc. Time is immaterial for the Path of Knowledge.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Time
  • Reality
  • Knowledge

• A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Good
  • Politics
  • Journalism

• The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Work
  • Success
  • Place

• I can be a bit extreme. I'll spend too much time running round the park, doing yoga and drinking green tea. I can get a bit obsessive. I have to rein it in sometimes.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Time
  • Running
  • Green

• I definitely want to be an inspiration or a role model for all the little girls out there or anyone out there that wants to break stereotypes. I feel like I'm breaking stereotypes with what I'm doing. I'm not the typical fighter, and there's a lot of people out there that won't do something just because they don't fit the stereotype.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Inspiration
  • Role
  • Fighter

• It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Religion
  • Concerned

• Winning excuses everything.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Winning
  • Everything
  • Excuses

• I don't watch a lot of T.V., and I hardly ever have time to keep up with series, though I do love reruns of old favorites from my childhood like 'Dr. Who', 'The Goodies', and 'Get Smart.'

  

  Garth Nix
  • Up
  • Time
  • Love

• I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Lucky

• I don't believe in luck. Not in golf, anyway. There are good bounces and bad bounces, sure, but the ball is round and so is the hole. If you find yourself in a position where you hope for luck to pull you through, you're in serious trouble.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Bad

• Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Training
  • Honor
  • Fate

• There was this sausage factory a block away from my childhood apartment. It didn't smell nice, like chorizo or something; it was pretty foul. Just nasty. But that smell reminds me so much of my childhood because every morning when I was going to school, I would smell that.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Nice

• Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Luck
  • Lucky
  • Ready