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

• 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

• It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Together
  • Benefits
  • Letters

• The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Women
  • Slavery
  • Medical

• We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there's nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all. Most of us would prefer, however, to spend our time doing something that will get immediate results. We don't want to wait for God to resolve matters in His good time because His idea of 'good time' is seldom in sync with ours.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Time
  • Good
  • God

• Does trust have to be earned. Or is it simply a matter of faith?

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Faith
  • Earned

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

  

  Heraclitus
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