Harold B. Lee Quotes

Every man stamps his value on himself. The price we challenge for ourselves is given us by others. -Man is made great or little by his own will.

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• I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Great
  • Support
  • Wall

• I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Beautiful
  • Thought
  • Beauty

• My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Hearing
  • Suffered
  • Ear

• The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Great
  • Different
  • Thinking

• I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Years
  • Go
  • University

• I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Best
  • Artist
  • End

• Most high-level models that I've ever met are actually well-travelled; they're cultured, and no guy laying a cheesy line on them is actually going to impact their world.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • World
  • High
  • Guy

• I'm always drawn to stories about characters who are somewhat isolated inside themselves by their inability to communicate in some way. That's what interested me about 'Children of a Lesser God.'

  

  Randa Haines
  • God
  • Children
  • Me

• The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • May
  • America
  • War

• He who can believe himself well, will be well.

  

  Ovid
  • Believe
  • Will
  • Well

• I have to live within my memories, within my private universe, and continually return to China, the land where my thoughts are locked. This is a very painful kind of existence, this feeling of nowhereness.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Live
  • Feeling
  • Universe

• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Fly
  • New York
  • Paris

• I like excess. And giant M&M's.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Like
  • Excess
  • Giant

• The military executes policy decisions.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Military
  • Decisions
  • Policy

• Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • People
  • Know
  • Single

• Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Character
  • Underneath

• Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.

  

  Maimonides
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Ignorant

• My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Work
  • Inspiration
  • Musicians

• Before I started MakerBot, I was creating cool stuff and sharing it with the Internet. That's how I knew all the folks at BoingBoing, at Engadget and Gizmodo.

  

  Bre Pettis
  • Cool

• The best thing to spend on your children is your time.

  

  Louise Hart
  • Time
  • Children
  • Best

• I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman does is built on what those who have gone before have done, that its real value depends on making the matter in hand a little clearer, a little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain. One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.

  

  Ida Tarbell
  • Value
  • Contribution
  • Illusions

• I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.

  

  Gavrilo Princip
  • Know
  • Knowing
  • Fired

• Ronald Reagan's vision of smaller government, less taxes, and a strong national defense has led to a prosperous America. As president, he rebuilt our military and reinvigorated our confidence in ourselves.

  

  David Vitter
  • America
  • Strong
  • Confidence

• Every man stamps his value on himself. The price we challenge for ourselves is given us by others. -Man is made great or little by his own will.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Great
  • Value
  • Challenge