Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.

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• I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Good
  • Adventure
  • Comfort

• But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people latching on to a particular stereotype.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • People
  • Want
  • Question

• I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Up
  • Different
  • Words

• We probably haven't seen the variety and diversity of threats to Americans' safety and well-being and our national security in a long, long time. Some have said it almost makes you yearn for the Cold War days when you knew who the bad guys were and who the good guys were, and there was a wall dividing us.

  

  Dan Coats
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Great
  • Integrity
  • Humor

• For a gymnast to be successful, she needs to strike a balance of everything within herself. She needs to be graceful, flexible, perform all elements, turns, maintain co-ordination - she has to have all of that. If, for example, she only has co-ordination and nothing else, she will not succeed.

  

  Yana Kudryavtseva
  • She
  • Balance
  • Successful

• The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • Existence
  • Foundation
  • Most

• The problem was, and we saw some of this in the immigration-reform issues as well, was they hadn't done sufficient homework to know that I didn't have all the capacity they thought I did in order to just execute this through the stroke of a pen.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Done
  • Immigration
  • Order

• The vast majority of people are born, grow up, struggle and go through life in misery and failure, not realizing that it would be just as easy to switch over and get exactly what they want out of life, not recognizing that the mind attracts the thing it dwells upon.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• The fact is, there are Fortune 500 companies that have been founded during recessions.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Fortune
  • Companies
  • Recession

• Get the big idea and all else follows.

  

  B. J. Palmer
  • Ideas
  • Bigs
  • Big Ideas

• I'd like for them to say he took a few cups of love, he took one tablespoon of patience, teaspoon of generosity, one pint of kindness. He took one quart of laughter, one pinch of concern, and then, he mix willingness with happiness, he added lots of faith, and he stirred it up well, then he spreads it over his span of a lifetime, and he served it to each and every deserving person he met.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Happiness
  • Patience
  • Kindness

• Things like the financial markets - a proper grounding in mathematics could help the common man. I believe that if people are more familiar with mathematical concepts... it can help deal with modern life, which is increasingly complex.

  

  Viswanathan Anand
  • People
  • Believe
  • Men

• You cannot solve current problems with current thinking. Current problems are the result of current thinking.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Thinking
  • Problems
  • Result

• That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Judge
  • Succeed
  • Wise Man

• It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Death
  • Eggs
  • Suffered

• A truly wise man does not play leapfrog with a unicorn.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Wise Man
  • Unicorn
  • Leapfrog

• When using colors to recreate a general harmony of tones in nature, one loses it by painfully exact imitation. One keeps it by recreating in an equivalent color range, and that may not be exactly, or far from exactly, like the model.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • May
  • Color
  • Harmony

• It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Wise Man
  • Eggs
  • Venture