Ernest Thompson Seton Quotes

I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common.

Ernest Thompson Seton

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• I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Time
  • Work
  • Mom

• Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Always
  • Being
  • Apollo

• Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Interesting
  • End
  • In The End

• As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Woman
  • Young
  • Name

• If there is something that strikes me as interesting or beautiful or something I could learn from, and I don't write it down, then I could be at lunch with you, and it's like there's a pile of laundry in my brain that I haven't put away, and I struggle to really listen, so that's always been important to me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Important
  • Beautiful
  • Interesting

• I don't want to compete. I want to skate for the joy. I get so nervous in competition. I get always sick. I had pressures enough in my life from skating.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Life
  • Joy
  • Competition

• A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.

  

  O. Henry
  • Way
  • Air
  • Vote

• The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Waste

• I'd watch old movies with Judy Garland, Shirley Temple and Bette Davis and long to be part of that glamorous world. A lot of that glamour is gone now. In my own small way, I hope I'm bringing some of it back. But it would be great if I could inspire women to dress up.

  

  Imelda May
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• Money is not the most important thing, but when you need it, there are few substitutes. So while I like the things money can buy, I love what money won't buy. It bought me a house but it won't buy me a home. It would buy me a companion but it won't buy me a friend.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Important
  • Money
  • Love

• Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelfThan that I may not disappoint myself,That in my action I may soar as highAs I can now discern with this clear eye.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Great
  • God
  • May

• One of the profound effects of economics in our day is that the people with the money and the power have embraced the guilt-free, external-less, everything-will-turn-out-okay-in-the-end philosophy of economics in order to justify their own evil works. And the economists, for the most part, have sucked up to that money.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• 'Hot Pursuit,' 'Pitch Perfect 2,' 'Trainwreck,' and 'Spy' were all being done in the last year. All four of those movies I just mentioned are not rom-coms: they're all about women doing different things.

  

  Kay Cannon
  • Different
  • Women
  • Done

• When I started out, I was definitely writing about experiences that I hadn't had yet. The songs were just based on my influences, songwriters that had written songs before me and that were more experienced and 20, 30 years older than me.

  

  Brandi Carlile
  • Writing

• Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.

  

  Max Lerner
  • Men
  • Success
  • Effort

• Radio is not a partner in the industry. I think that the music industry has continued to depend upon radio, but has ended up pandering to a medium that doesn't care.

  

  Don Rose
  • Up
  • Music
  • Partner

• It's not the way you want to get a job, to see someone you admire and look up to and learned so much from get fired.

  

  J. B. Bickerstaff
  • Up
  • Job

• There isn't a comedian in the world that hasn't bombed.

  

  Bob Newhart
  • World

• Cubism is not a reality you can take in your hand. It's more like a perfume, in front of you, behind you, to the sides, the scent is everywhere but you don’t quite know where it comes from.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Reality
  • Hand

• Bottom is bottom, even if it is turned upside down.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Ifs
  • Bottom
  • Upside Down

• If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it's a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also - to do the lawn and clean the gutters.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • Family
  • Job

• I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Great
  • Think
  • Words

• Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Persons
  • Revenge
  • Deformed

• I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common.

  

  Ernest Thompson Seton
  • Believe
  • Science
  • Belief