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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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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But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore.
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Oh, it was work and no fooling. I enjoyed it very much, because I didn’t have to do it.
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Whatever the advantages of the machine may be - and they are many - the very ease of its use is bound to make away with intimacy - the intercourse of human beings, of animals, or of that which we still think of as the natural world.
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I think Steve Jobs is my idol.
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The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.
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Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.
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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.
