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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Someone – a man – advised me not to become a news anchor because my eyelashes were too long, and they would distract the viewers.
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As a comedian, you're kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit.
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I learned something important in my race against Senator Brown: voters want political leaders who are willing to break the partisan gridlock. They want fewer closed-door roadblocks and more public votes on legislation that could improve their lives.
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If I wasn't modelling, I'd probably be an intern somewhere, working for someone who interned the year before me.
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If a kid is being bullied at school, my advice to them is to punch the bully in the face. The government can create as many boards, commissions, and informational sessions on sensitivity that it wants. The fact is, we still have bullies, and we still have victims who are trained not to stand up for themselves.
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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.
