Stephen Samuel Wise Quotes

Vision looks inward and becomes duty.

Stephen Samuel Wise

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• I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Wall

• Do your job; be the best at whatever your job description is.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Job
  • Best
  • Description

• Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • You
  • Reverence

• We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Up
  • Music
  • Listening

• I remember when I first met Katherine Bigelow for 'Zero Dark Thirty' – actually, we met for another movie, and that never got made, and then she called me and invited me to 'Zero Dark Thirty'.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Remember
  • Movie
  • Actually

• A good hair day is when my curls are popping. Sometimes my curls and waves, they like to go a little wild sometimes. They have a mind of their own. But some days, they just fall right into place.

  

  Zendaya
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Day

• I've hosted the Soul Train awards, the American Music Awards... and I had my own talk show. So if I can't host by now, what the hell can I do?

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Music
  • American
  • Soul

• I don't suppose there is a more daring or more impudent rascal on earth than a good American beggar. It is always his boast that he has begged an ex-president, or the present one, and he claims to have received benefits from a number of well-known millionaires, actors, and prize-fighters.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Good
  • American
  • Earth

• For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That's probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• Ummm, there is not just one good thing about being a VJ, it is a package deal. It is a fun job and you get paid to party and have a good time and make people have a good time, which is great.

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• When you're doing a Broadway show, you have no free time.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Time
  • Free
  • Doing

• The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by inventing museums. Museums are about representing power. It could be the king's power or, later, people's power.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Power
  • King

• I want to explore the world properly, to be able to write about and take pictures of all kinds of different cultures. Just be an explorer or adventurer. I also love extreme sports.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • World
  • Different
  • Love

• We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Anniversary

• Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Great
  • History
  • Man

• The fact that the general incidence of leukemia has doubled in the last two decades may be due, partly, to the increasing use of x-rays for numerous purposes. The incidence of leukemia in doctors, who are likely to be so exposed, is twice that of the general public. In radiologists … the incidence is ten times greater.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • May

• People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • People
  • God

• Our view is that consumer finance - what people think of as retail finance - that arena is ripe for disruption. Bitcoin is absolutely a core platform and asset format that we are dependent on to build this business.

  

  Jeremy Allaire
  • People
  • Business

• It's not really possible to open 'The Casual Vacancy' without a lot of expectations both high and low crashing around in your brain and distorting your vision. There's no point pretending they're not there.

  

  Lev Grossman
  • High
  • Brain
  • Vision

• Without execution, 'vision' is just another word for hallucination.

  

  Mark V. Hurd
  • Vision

• Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Vision

• I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate on such subjects disgusted me with them. When I began to study man, I saw that these abstract sciences are not suited to him, and that in diving into them, I wandered farther from my real object than those who knew them not, and I forgave them for not having attended to these things. I expected then, however, that I should find some companions in the study of man, since it was so specifically a duty. I was in error. There are fewer students of man than of geometry.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Study
  • Duty
  • Communicate

• Trend following is an exercise in observing and responding to the ever-present moment of now

  

  Ed Seykota
  • Moments
  • Exercise
  • Observing

• Vision looks inward and becomes duty.

  

  Stephen Samuel Wise
  • Vision
  • Duty
  • Inward