Samuel Beckett Quotes
Spend the years of learning squandering Courage for the years of wandering Through a world politely turning From the loutishness of learning.
Quotes to Explore
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It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.
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The connection I make with being young and growing up is, like, the feeling of not being crushed by the world. Having an idea, thinking you can do it.
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I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.
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I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
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I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.
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I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.
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When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.
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As long as they keep building settlements, the world will be anti-Israeli.
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Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.
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The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.
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If the world sees that we can defend our borders... then no one will try to come to Hungary illegally.
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We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.
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Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
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I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.
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All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
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There is a saying that a glass is half empty or half full, depending on how you look at it. Well, we all know that one. But we cannot just say, okay so half full is how we should look at things. No. We have to go even further in our observation and realize that the glass is actually 100 percent full: 50 percent with water and 50 percent with air.
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I'm a gay, undocumented immigrant; I have to be optimistic.
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On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died.
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I'm a great believer in not sitting around waiting for the right part to come around, but jumping in and building it for yourself.
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I'm shy, but when the time comes to be wild, I'm fun-loving, adventurous, and mysterious.
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Spend the years of learning squandering Courage for the years of wandering Through a world politely turning From the loutishness of learning.
