William Cowper Quotes

If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.

William Cowper

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Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.

Adam Grant
- Values
- Emotions
- Step
For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.

Taylor Swift
- People
- Music
- Thinking
Foucault is one of many who want a new conception of how power and knowledge interact. But he is not looking for a relation between two givens, 'power' and 'knowledge.' As always, he is trying to rethink the entire subject matter, and his 'knowledge' and 'power' are to be something else.

Ian Hacking
- Trying
- Power
- Knowledge
I'm just there to do interviews and stuff, because we have about 40 media people there, so it's a very, very busy week. But that's the only time. I did marry, I think on one show, about 25 couples in Acapulco Bay once, but that was all just for kicks.

Gavin MacLeod
- People
- Time
- Busy
You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.

Talib Kweli Black Star
- People
- Life
- Know
People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.

Rafael dos Anjos
- People
- Work
- Believe