Thomas Carlyle Quotes

An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.

Thomas Carlyle

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• Men and women are different. I don't think men grow a brain until 26 or even 30. Girls mature a lot quicker.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Men
  • Different
  • Thinking

• Over the years, you grow up, you mature and you see things in a different way, and it's reflected in the writing.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Up
  • Different
  • Writing

• Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Funny
  • Enjoy
  • Golf

• Usually, the creating of the book happens while I'm writing the book. I start with Chapter One, with a few ideas and a handful of characters, and the book grows from there.

  

  Lily King
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Ideas

• Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Moments
  • Challenges
  • Strength

• To teach is to show. You can't teach what you don't know. You can't guide where you don't go. And you can't grow what you don't sow.

  

  Kevin Peter Hall
  • Teach
  • Shows
  • Grows

• You don't have to suffer continual chaos in order to grow.

  

  John Lilly
  • Suffering
  • Chaos
  • Order

• The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Matter
  • Grows

• Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.

  

  William Osler
  • Time
  • Exercise
  • Hours

• A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Men
  • Money
  • Rich

• Strikes deeper, grows with more pernicious root.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Greed
  • Grows
  • Roots

• I therefore concluded, and decided unhesitatingly, that there are three stars in the heavens moving about Jupiter, as Venus and Mercury about the Sun; which at length was established as clear as daylight by numerous other observations.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Stars
  • Clear
  • Established

• The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Grows
  • Statue
  • Wastes

• Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.

  

  John Milton
  • Grows
  • Abundant
  • Communicated

• Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.

  

  William Golding
  • Childhood
  • Disease
  • Grows

• I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Artist
  • Mistake
  • Persons

• Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Hearts
  • Heavens
  • Tremble

• Though our smoke may hide the Heavens from your eyes, It will vanish and the stars will shine again, Because, for all our power and weight and size, We are nothing more than children of your brain!

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Children
  • Stars
  • Heavens

• Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of the soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more than the total weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Together
  • Quality
  • Plant

• As long as there are armies, there will be a war. I don’t care about symbols.

  

  Jeff Shaara
  • War
  • Symbols
  • Armies

• The best way to think about reality, I had decided, was to get as far away from it as possible.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Reality
  • Decided
  • Best Way

• You can't say, I won't write today because that excuse will extend into several days, then several months, then... you are not a writer anymore, just someone who dreams about being a writer.

  

  D. C. Fontana
  • Today

• Worthy books Are not companions – they are solitudes: We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Books
  • Lose
  • Companions

• An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Grows
  • Heavens
  • Lodestar