Heraclitus Quotes

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

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• In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Women
  • Leadership
  • Voices

• If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • She
  • Study
  • Problems

• I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Life
  • Want
  • Justice

• I first arrived in New York in 1979. I was 19 and I was going to University in Houston, Texas, and I decided that I knew what I wanted to do and it was time to go and do it. I literally ran away from college.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Time
  • College
  • New York

• We were very fortunate to be in YouTube in the very beginning. There wasn't a lot of content on there, so we were pretty easy to find on YouTube. That was really helpful in growing our channel.

  

  Ian Hecox
  • Pretty
  • Growing
  • Beginning

• I think my greatest victory was every time I walked out there, I gave it everything I had. I left everything out there. That's what I'm most proud of. I can't go win Wimbledon anymore, so if what I've done in the past is not good enough, let it go. Because I'm certainly not sitting around thinking about it.

  

  Jimmy Connors
  • Time
  • Good
  • Thinking

• 'Catcher In The Rye' was my favorite book, honestly. I read it when I was thirteen, and the book was a bit of a family heirloom because it was passed down from my grandfather to my father to my older brother and then to me.

  

  Alex Wolff
  • Family
  • Book
  • Father

• A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to death by scorpions.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Death
  • King
  • Feared

• It keeps agitating and worrying us there, ... They're trying to get it to calm down.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Trying
  • Problem
  • Calm

• There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well - that really makes me happy. The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Pleasure

• I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers, and I taught tap-dancing, and I was a model in the art school. I had no ability for any of those things, but what else could I do?

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • World
  • School
  • Art

• Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a product's cost to society is reflected in the price of that product.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Society
  • Companies
  • Product

• I don't know about you, but when they first introduced bottled water, I thought it was so funny, I was like "Bottled water! Haha, they're selling bottled water! ... I guess I'll try it. Ah, this is good, this is more watery than water. Yeah, this has got a water kick to it."

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Trying
  • Funny
  • Water

• The world of tomorrow belongs to the person who has the vision for today.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Person
  • Word
  • Belongs

• Unless we learn the lesson of nonviolence fully, we shall never do away with the deadly feuds which have been the curse of the Frontier people.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • People
  • Learn
  • Lesson

• I see a schoolboy when I think of him, With face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Thinking
  • Sweet
  • Faces

• To have control of my own mind... to go with dignity is less terryfying. When I look at both options I have to die, I feel this is far more humane.

  

  Brittany Maynard
  • Mind
  • Control
  • Humane

• What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Way
  • Effort
  • Balance

• The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • Poets
  • Churches
  • Insistent

• I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

  

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