Ernest Shackleton Quotes

Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.

Ernest Shackleton

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• Younger customers are the future, but older customers have the money. So you need both: one for the present, and the other for the future.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Money
  • Future
  • Present

• Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Work
  • Look
  • Well

• Fast food is the one thing everyone can relate to. It's depressing, but also interesting, that people desire to eat the same sandwich in every single city in the world. But the biggest bummer is when you see a Subway in Berlin. Just devastating.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • People
  • World
  • Interesting

• I don't listen to my old stuff very often at all.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Old
  • Listen
  • Often

• I'm still finding my legs, performance-wise, being up there by myself. I think I have a bit of proving myself ahead of me.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Up
  • Think
  • Myself

• We were doing the same thing. We will never have "a" Chicano English or Spanish because of regional differences. But I think that because of our bilingual history, we'll always be speaking a special kind of English and Spanish. What we do have to do is fight for the right to use those two languages in the way that it serves us. Nuevo-mexicanos have done it very well for hundreds of years, inventing words where they don't have them. I think the future of our language is where we claim our bilingualism for its utility.

  

  Ana Castillo
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • History

• If you're going to be a writer you should sit down and write in the morning, and keep it up all day, every day. Charles Bukowski, no matter how drunk he got the night before or no matter how hungover he was, the next morning he was at his typewriter. Every morning. Holidays, too. He'd have a bottle of whiskey with him to wake up with, and that's what he believed. That's the way you became a writer: by writing. When you weren't writing, you weren't a writer.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Night

• Purpose is the thread that connects the dots to everything you do that leads you to an extraordinary life.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Thread

• In the sense that Watchmen references movies, comic books, pop culture in general. It knows it's a movie. I really do like movies that ride that fine line, the razor's edge between parody and supporting the fake movie part of the movie.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Movie
  • Culture
  • Fake

• There's blame to go around but in the end, the federal government is our last defense and it's the failure of the federal government that has people in this country worried.

  

  Eleanor Clift
  • People
  • Country
  • Government

• Pain or pleasure? I say pleasure.

  

  Epictetus
  • Pain
  • Pleasure
  • Say

• One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Art
  • Value
  • Existence

• There's music that can affect people in their lives, and they will always relate to the point that they heard it and experienced it, either if you're playing it or you're receptive, as an audience.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • People
  • Music
  • Lives

• The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Ends
  • Faults
  • Disposition

• It's paradoxical that, when you have better health, families choose to have less children, because they've been having enough children so that they can be sure that a few of them will survive and take care of them. So as health improves, then all the other problems are dramatically easier to tackle.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Children
  • Health
  • Families

• I don't like to dwell on the past.

  

  Tina Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Past

• If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.

  

  Ward Churchill
  • Death
  • Results
  • Innocence

• You can't choose up sides on a round world.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Up
  • World
  • Choose

• Man is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organisation that anything decent can be got out of him.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Animal

• By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • God
  • Father
  • Pain

• Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.

  

  Ernest Shackleton
  • Results
  • Damn
  • Achieves