Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.

Thomas Carlyle

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• Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.

  

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• Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.

  

  Sally Ride
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• Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
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• I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?

  

  Samantha Power
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• You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.

  

  H. R. Giger
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• I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.

  

  Vachel Lindsay
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• The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.

  

  Victor Hugo
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• There was a moment when designers draped in ermine would be reading Proust, or pretending to.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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• I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

  

  Narendra Modi
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• I am my own worst enemy. My friends and family will say, 'You've got everything going for you right now', and I say, 'Oh yes, but!' Which is not a good way to be.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Good
  • Family
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• We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.

  

  Ed Koch
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  • Moment
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• Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

  

  Hannah Arendt
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• During the first quarter of the last century, seaside resorts became the fashion, even in those countries of Northern Europe within the minds of whose people the sea had hitherto held the role of the devil, the cold and voracious hereditary foe of humanity.

  

  Karen Blixen
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• There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.

  

  Isaac Asimov
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• Knowledge is theory. We should be thankful if action of management is based on theory. Knowledge has temporal spread. Information is not knowledge. The world is drowning in information but is slow in acquisition of knowledge. There is no substitute for knowledge.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
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• You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?

  

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• Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution.

  

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• When I say what I say it’s because what I say has overcome me.

  

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• Mummy, Bea and I call ourselves 'the Tripod' - they are my best friends in the world.

  

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• As entrepreneurs, we must constantly dream and have the conviction and obsession to transform our dreams into reality - to create a future that never existed before.

  

  Clara Shih
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  • Reality

• We have salads, some other beverages. But in reality, it's still fundamentally the same business. The most likely thing the next person will buy is a sandwich and a soft drink. After a half-century of glacial change, we're still pretty much the same business.

  

  Fred DeLuca
  • Business
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  • Reality

• Men who no longer can make sure of the reality which they feel and experience through talking about it and sharing it with their fellow-men, live in the same nightmare of loneliness and uncertainty which, in a normal world, is the terrible fate of insanity.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Experience
  • Reality
  • Loneliness

• For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find something that fit me and I just decided that if I could organically make a professional living out of the things that interested me, then I would be a happy person.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Me

• Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Reality
  • Worship
  • Great Men