Samuel Ullman Quotes

When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, have you grown old.

Samuel Ullman

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• We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up here, and we don't have to pay any attention it to at all. We do what we want to do.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Up
  • Want
  • House

• And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • First
  • Flight
  • Backup

• When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good riddance.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Good
  • Free

• My standards are based on shows I like, like 'Girls' or 'Arrested Development.' And they're all shows that are groundbreaking. I guess in the back of my head, I think, If you're not being groundbreaking, then what are you doing? If you're not being ballsy and honest and vulgar, then what are you doing?

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Think
  • Doing
  • Development

• I wasn't losing my focus but I was getting tired of focusing. What I was focusing on was becoming too routine, too ritual, not something that was interesting, new and exciting.

  

  Picabo Street
  • Interesting
  • Focus
  • Tired

• I believe in the power of media. I really do. It's my soapbox. And I do have an agenda, because I'm enraged by the limitations forced on people - by poverty, oppression, hatred, fear - and I'm saddened by the kind of loss we all experienced due to the contributions that people cannot make because of their circumstances.

  

  Jenji Kohan
  • People
  • Believe
  • Power

• I thank God for Elvis Presley. I thank the Lord for sending Elvis to open the door so I could walk down the road.

  

  Little Richard
  • God
  • Road
  • Door

• I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.

  

  Andy Gibb
  • People
  • Writing
  • Songs

• Make the decision to do what Jesus Christ has asked you to do.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Jesus
  • Decision
  • Jesus Christ

• If I were God - and I never understand why I'm not - I should say, "Shop around, I don't think you'll find a better bargain than here."

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • God
  • Why

• If you are not learning while you’re earning, you are cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Learning
  • Cheating
  • Compensation

• Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved. Sometimes we are inclined to put up with a situation rather than endure. To endure is to bear up under, to stand firm against, to suffer without yielding, to continue to be, or to exhibit the state or power of lasting.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Life
  • Up
  • Power

• Yes, I know,' interrupted Puddleglum. 'And few return to the sunlit lands. You needn't say it again. You are a chap of one idea, aren't you?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Ideas
  • Land
  • Return

• A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality.

  

  Solon
  • Truth
  • Lies
  • Partiality

• The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Society
  • Practice
  • Vain

• President Obama, don't you think you should follow in the footsteps of your predecessor? Remember, President George W. Bush? He stayed out of the political arena, and he let you, his successor, do your job.

  

  Sean Hannity
  • Remember
  • Political
  • President

• Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.

  

  Garth Hudson
  • Music
  • Country
  • Rock

• The art of wealth-getting which consists in household management, on the one hand, has a limit; the unlimited acquisition of wealth is not its business. And therefore, in one point of view, all riches must have a limit; nevertheless, as a matter of fact, we find the opposite to be the case; for all getters of wealth increase their hard coin without limit.

  

  Aristotle
  • Art
  • Business
  • Wealth

• Do not be a bodhisattva, do not be an arahant, do not be anything at all. If you are a bodhisattva, you will suffer, if you are an arahant, you will suffer, if you are anything at all, you will suffer.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Suffering
  • Bodhisattva

• When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, have you grown old.

  

  Samuel Ullman
  • Older
  • Cynicism
  • Pessimism