Ernest Holmes Quotes

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Ernest Holmes

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• I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Thinking
  • Day
  • Study

• With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Up
  • Want
  • Know

• Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Down
  • Calm
  • Storm

• I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's always been a genre and an era that's fascinated me. But so often it's set in England, and that doesn't really resonate with me, or maybe it just seems a little overdone.

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • Time
  • Me
  • Genre

• I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Education

• When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Writing
  • Emotion
  • Curiosity

• One who is persistent will excel.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Will
  • Persistent
  • Excel

• The view of the Rocky Mountains from the Divide near Kiowa Creek is considered one of the finest in Colorado.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • View
  • Mountains
  • Rocky

• I've traveled around the world.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • World
  • Around
  • Traveled

• I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there's a market for a well-produced, well-written melodrama like 'Dallas.' It's pure entertainment.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Nonsense

• I do everything I can to have a diverse career because I just want to have options. I know that I can do Hamlet or I can do Stanley Kowalski, you know.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Want
  • Career
  • Know

• My favorite film of all time is 'Raising Arizona.' I watched it again as soon as it was over. I had it on VHS, rented it, and I watched it and said, 'I want to watch that again, right now.' I think I did the same with something like 'Goodfellas,' which is a completely different genre.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Time
  • Different
  • Think

• Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Men
  • Women
  • Poverty

• A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Apology

• Chi non esce dal suo paese, vive pieno di pregiudizi.

  

  Carlo Goldoni

• I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.

  

  Neil Innes

• When I do videos, it's just myself.

  

  Kian Lawley

• You may have seen me in movies like 'Fast & Furious' and 'Avatar.' But I wouldn't have been able to do any of that without hard work and determination. You can accomplish anything if you just stay out of trouble and do the right things.

  

  Laz Alonso
  • Work
  • May
  • Determination

• Bookstores contain groceries for the mind!

  

  Jen Selinsky
  • Mind
  • Bookstores
  • Groceries

• I have endeavoured to show that the ability to pay taxes depends, not on the gross money value of the mass of commodities, nor on the net money value of the revenue of capitalists and landlords, but on the money value of each man's revenue compared to the money value of the commodities which he usually consumes.

  

  David Ricardo
  • Money
  • Value

• The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Time
  • Different
  • Attitude

• You need to fight cases in the courts, but you certainly cannot rely on the courts, you need to testify in Congress and lobby your Congress person, but you certainly cannot rely on Congress. You need to speak out in the media, but you cannot totally trust the media either. You need to work within the academy because that's an influential opinion body. I think that one of the lessons that people have learned in the civil rights community is that it is generally not enough to focus on litigation in the courts.

  

  David D. Cole
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Community

• Change your thinking, change your life.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Change