H. Richard Niebuhr Quotes
The great Christian revolutions came not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when someone takes radically something that was always there.H. Richard Niebuhr
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
Ramez Naam -
The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
Jack Nicholson -
My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
Samuel Lover -
If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
Samuel Beckett -
I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
Salman Rushdie
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
Napoleon Hill -
I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.
Earl Warren -
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
Orville Wright -
Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.
Iman -
Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.
Maimonides -
The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
Walter Bagehot
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I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.
Zaha Hadid -
I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.
Mackenzie Davis -
My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.
Ted Danson -
Do we care about these people that are HIV-positive whose lives have been ruined? Those are the people I'm the most concerned about. Every night I think about this.
Kary Mullis -
There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
Jack Welch -
I think most Americans don't really care about politicians bickering in Washington.
Ted Cruz
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Find someone within the company who is on another team but is at a similar level or role as you to be a friend, a sounding board, and a place to go for candid feedback. Find a mentor within the company who resembles the leader you'd like to grow to be.
Katrina Lake -
O skies, be calm! O winds, blow free - Blow all my ships safe home to me! But if thou sendest some a-wrack, To never more come sailing back, Send any - all that skim the sea, But bring my love-ship home to me.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I'm probably not going to get married unless I live with somebody for 10 or 20 years. But these people, Romeo and Juliet, took a chance and they did it. We don't have the balls that Romeo did.
Leonardo DiCaprio -
What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.
Lady Gaga -
The great Christian revolutions came not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when someone takes radically something that was always there.
H. Richard Niebuhr