Thomas Carlyle Quotes

The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.

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• When you have a diagnosis of cancer, or any serious illness, your choices are basically to be passive and kind of accept whatever is offered you, or to be active and to learn about your disease, and understand your options, and be an active partner with your doctor. That's the course I took with all three of my cancers.

  

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• Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

  

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• When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.

  

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• I thought I knew everything when I came to Rome, but I soon found I had everything to learn.

  

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• Appropriate assessments are a crucial part of effectively educating students. But they only measure a narrow segment of what kids need to learn.

  

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• If you and I had a relationship, and I like to dance and you don't, will that affect our relationship? If I push you and push you, maybe you'll learn to dance, but more likely, that will move you away from me.

  

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• Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.

  

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• I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.

  

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• From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.

  

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• L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.

  

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• I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.

  

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• Good investors must learn to contextualize the daily background noise.

  

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• For me, there are always things to learn. It's like the next movie is going to be the good one, you know.

  

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• It's a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies.

  

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• You just try to learn and see what you can put in your repertoire, and that's what I try to do.

  

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• After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.

  

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• I love people, watching people interact. It's a lot of psychology. We learn about ourselves by watching other people's lives on the screen.

  

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• It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

  

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• Holiness does not consist in doing extraordinary things. It consists in accepting, with a smile, what Jesus sends us. It consists in accepting and following the will of God.

  

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• I heard the prophet Joseph Smith say the time would come when this nation would so far depart from its original purity, its glory, and its love for freedom and its protection of civil rights and religious rights, that the Constitution of our country would hang as it were by a thread. He said, also, that this people, the sons of Zion, would rise up and save the Constitution and bear it off triumphantly.

  

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• When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid then it's easy.

  

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• The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
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  • Reverence
  • Despise