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

• 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

• I just hope that I continue to keep a line between my private life and who I play, even if they are closely intertwined, and so I'm careful. I don't even know where my line is, but I know I have a line.

  

  Lena Dunham
  • Life
  • Hope

• Choose what you actually want to do rather than what you think will impress people on Facebook. Ironically, when you do this, something amazing happens; what you produce stands a better chance of getting recognition. Not just on Facebook, but in the real world.

  

  Meghan Daum
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• There are many portions of economical doctrine which appear to me as scientific in form as they are consonant with facts.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Facts
  • Form
  • Doctrine

• In the forensic science course I took at university they used photographs of dead bodies. For ballistics they showed us a guy lying on the floor, and his head had burst.

  

  Denise Mina
  • Guy
  • Science

• The suffering that food animals undergo, the suffering of those who eat them and profit by them, the suffering of starving people who could be fed with the grain that feeds these animals, and the suffering we thoughtlessly impose on the ecosystem, other creatures, and future generations are all interconnected. It is this interconnectedness of suffering, and its reverse, of love, caring, and awareness, that calls out for our understanding.

  

  Will Tuttle
  • Understanding
  • Caring
  • Generations

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

  

  Ernest Thompson Seton
  • Believe
  • Science
  • Belief