Thomas Mitchell Morris (Old Tom Morris) Quotes
Nothing is more endangered in the modern world than the powerful combination of hard work toward meaningful goals joined with an exuberant embrace of the present moment.
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This bikini made me a success.
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Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.
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The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
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He rejects the New World Order established at the Cold War's end by the United States. Putin puts Russia first.
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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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Just do what you believe in, and success will follow.
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I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.
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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
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Russia and China, which have embraced autocratic capitalism, have attracted admirers and emulators by the seeming success of their strongman rule.
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If you think about work, it's just this endlessly fascinating subject. We spend at least half of our waking hours working. So it becomes this incredible window into a whole variety of things: who we are human beings, how the economy works, how people relate to each other, how stuff is made, how the world spins on its axis.
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The Asian brand, which I admire for having become a global success, is Samsung. In comparison, we're just starting, but I believe that we at Uniqlo will be the next Asian brand to do well globally.
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Our World War II generation met the challenges of their time.
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I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.
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I love to work with performers that are very different to me.
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You paint what you know best; what you went through as a teenager and child. My world is the one I got to know in Medellin; I never paint anything else other than that.
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Rarely has a new player on the world stage captured so much attention so quickly - young and old, faithful and cynical - as has Pope Francis.
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This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how important the arts are - not just to those of us who work at it, but to the nation as a whole.
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If the work is worthwhile, then whether we can complete it or not, it's worth making the attempt. That's why courage is important.
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So many people want to live their lives and their dreams through their own Facebook page or their Twitter page. They want to show every detail of their life to everyone in the world. That scares me because I don't have any Facebook page or Twitter I don't like it, I don't want it.
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When I'm away from the field, I show a little more emotion and stuff.
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Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite.
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When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
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Nothing is more endangered in the modern world than the powerful combination of hard work toward meaningful goals joined with an exuberant embrace of the present moment.
