William Arthur Ward Quotes
Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.
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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
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The victor belongs to the spoils.
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A lot of people tell me, 'You are from North; how do you manage to get along in the South?' I don't know what to say to them. I've always felt at home here, and by learning to speak Telugu, my connection with the place has gotten that much stronger.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I am from the age of magazines, so the Internet is terrifying to me. But I am learning.
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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They're not willing to admit that I've also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad.
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Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
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I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
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I've worked with some actors who have such thick skins and think they are so extraordinary. I'll think, 'Have you stopped learning?' They stop listening to directors or other actors and do the same thing again and again.
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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
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Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
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It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than they imagine, for the success they may have achieved, even in practical pursuits, and for the enjoyment their lives have afforded them.
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The success of 'Kick' will help in the marketing of other small budget independent films I have acted in.
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Today, people idolize athletes and celebrities - and yes, highly successful and visionary business people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but not the innovators who perhaps have not seen such high-flying levels of success. Can anyone name the inventors of GPS, which has such a huge impact on our lives today?
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I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision.
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You know you've reached true success the day you become truly humble. That's the day you stop needing to prove to the world - and yourself - that you've accomplished something meaningful.
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If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.
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God gives you the resources for success. But it is up to you to recognize them and use them to their fullest.
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You're always learning about this thing everytime you pick it up...
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Now we were the very good malchicks, smiling good evensong to one and all, though these wrinkled old lighters started to get all shook, their veiny old rookers all trembling round their glasses, and making the suds spill on the table. 'Leave us be, lads,' said one of them, her face all mappy with being a thousand years old, 'we’re only poor old women.'
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So when they have Mourinho and Benitez joining the Premiership they should say it's good for us, maybe these guys have something new to give.
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Me and my mom are just alike in every type of way. I talk to my mom about everything.
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Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.
