Robert Baden-Powell Quotes

"Softly, softly, catchee monkey," is the West African rendering of a very valuable precept. An awful lot of men fail through lack of patient persistence.

Robert Baden-Powell

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• I'm just trying to have fun, and maybe the way I hold myself kind of freaks people out. I don't feel like an outsider, and I think my friends feel the same way I do. Now that we're playing to larger audiences, maybe we're weird to some people. But I'm trying to express what I am.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Trying
  • Friends

• I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Like
  • Historical
  • Novels

• X Out is perfect for my schedule. It is so simple, fast and actually works. I am more confident in my own skin and always camera ready - a necessity in my line of work.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Work
  • Schedule
  • X Out

• I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Up
  • Think
  • Dad

• I've always dreamed of having a large family.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Family
  • Always
  • Large Family

• I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • You
  • Nothing
  • Captain

• The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Think
  • Perfect
  • Beginning

• The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Power
  • Understanding
  • End

• I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Me
  • Things
  • Said

• At the beginning of the week, I roast a ton of vegetables so I can use them for the next few days. I also plan out meals in advance.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Beginning
  • Week
  • Plan

• I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Very
  • Talk
  • Well

• So far, Vancouver is my favorite relocation city. It feels like home. Parts of it remind me of the east coast. It's very clean. The food is great. And the people are lovely. Not that I didn't love working in other glamorous locations like Downey, Detroit, Cleveland or Bulgaria... but, damn, it is fun to be Canadian.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • People
  • Food
  • Favorite

• I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Ideas
  • Thoughts
  • Very

• The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Work
  • Money
  • Business

• On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Time
  • Long
  • Hand

• We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Better
  • Mental Illness

• I was born 'Harmony,' and it was weird because when I was a little kid, I was picked on so much that when I was 13, I changed my name to Harmful. I thought it was a tougher name, so I had it legally changed. And then, I don't know, it just didn't seem to catch on, so... legally, my name is still Harmful, but I just said I'll go back to Harmony.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Thought
  • Weird
  • Name

• A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Done
  • Courage

• You try to get the most out of the talent. Make 'em work and let 'em play.

  

  Don Shula
  • Work

• It's still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.

  

  Ken Kesey
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Truth

• Other blessings may be taken away, but if we have acquired a good friend by goodness, we have a blessing which improves in value when others fail.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Friend
  • Taken
  • Blessing

• I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.

  

  William Golding
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Ignorance

• Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Men
  • Grief
  • Surprise

• "Softly, softly, catchee monkey," is the West African rendering of a very valuable precept. An awful lot of men fail through lack of patient persistence.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Men
  • Failing
  • Patient