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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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Somehow I feel a little bit odd in Tiananmen Square because I was a soldier, in a uniform, watching those leaders and tanks, and I was part of them.
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The environment around you shapes who you are. How you handle an emergency or how you react when someone is rude to you, that's you.
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Impossible is just the possible that someone has not put enough effort to make it come true.
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The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.
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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.
