Michelangelo Quotes

Do not be concerned that you might set a target too high and fail. Be concerned that you will set it too low and succeed.

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• I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since.

  

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• I can be a bit extreme. I'll spend too much time running round the park, doing yoga and drinking green tea. I can get a bit obsessive. I have to rein it in sometimes.

  

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• When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

  

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• Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

  

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• I would kiss you, had I the courage.

  

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• I thought 'The Well' was going to launch my career, but nothing happened.

  

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• Together, the Jenner sisters have left their mark on the jewelry and fashion accessories industry, first with The Kendall & Kylie Collection at PacSun in 2012, the Metal Haven jewelry collection in 2013, and a line of shoes and handbags for Steve Madden in 2014.

  

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• As we got older, we grew comfortable in roles that met our parents' expectations. Nora was the smart one. Delia, the comedian. I was the pretty, obedient one. And Amy was the adventurous mischief-maker.

  

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• Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.

  

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• It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

  

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• We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. Presumably the plans for our employment were being changed. I was to learn later in life that, perhaps because we are so good at organizing, we tend as a nation to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.

  

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• I had an idea when I was 18 or 19 to start tutoring people, like the way that people get tutored in saxophone or guitar, but for production. I really enjoyed it, but I don't have time for that any more.

  

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• The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful.

  

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• Do not be concerned that you might set a target too high and fail. Be concerned that you will set it too low and succeed.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Succeed
  • Fail
  • Target