Virginia Woolf Quotes
Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't want to get rich - just live good.
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Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.
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I've always thought of myself as an 80 percenter. I like to throw myself passionately into a sport or activity until I reach about an 80 percent proficiency level. To go beyond that requires an obsession that doesn't appeal to me. Once I reach 80 percent level I like to go off and do something totally different; that probably explains the diversity of the Patagonia product like - and why our versatile, multifaceted clothes are the most successful.
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That was FedEx Field the way I sure remember it, ... We needed everything we could get today to win this game.'
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I’d recommend learning to accept rejection. Become friends with rejection. Be nice to rejection, because it’s a huge part of being a writer, no matter where you are in your career.
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When experience contradicts firmly held judgments of self-efficacy, people may not change their beliefs about themselves if the conditions of performance are such as to lead them to discount the import of the experience.
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My serve has killed a small dog ... I'm joking, I'm joking! The dog was huge!
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Is that the longest fifth set ever? It was? So, no, I've never played one longer than that!
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As of now, I am in control here in the White House.
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It's ridiculous for a country to get all worked up about a game—except the Super Bowl, of course. Now that's important.
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What do we teach our children? . . . We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique . . . You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything.
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We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.
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The history of lead is a history of neglect. It's a history of decisions on our part not to address the broad implications of what we did to ourselves during the industrial revolution and in the first part of the century when our cities expanded broadly, when we built our housing and we began to depend upon lead as a mainstay of our new industrial culture. We put this stuff in even though we knew it was dangerous, we knew it was going to hurt kids.
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I don't like honors. I'm appreciated for the work that I did, and for people who appreciate it, and I notice that other physicists use my work. I don't need anything else. I don't think there's any sense to anything else.... I've already got the prize. The prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out, the kick in the discovery, the observation that other people use it. Those are the real things. The honors are unreal to me. I don't believe in honors... I can't stand it, it hurts me.
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The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church.
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You know, I've never killed a man before. I mean I droped bombs on the enemy from the above, but never face to face. [thinking pause] I don't see what the big deal is - I really don't.
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Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.
