Thomas Carlyle Quotes
The greatest of all heroes is One--whom we do not name here! Let sacred silence meditate that sacred matter; you will find it the ultimate perfection of a principle extant throughout man's whole history on earth.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.
-
Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normalized for how well we think each person is going to get along with the other person - the only factor left in determining response rate, really, is the aesthetic appearance of the person who sent you that message.
-
Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
-
Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review.
-
Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
-
You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
-
Actually, 'Die Hard' was the first movie I ever saw in the theater. When I was a newborn, my parents were going stir-crazy in the house, and they put me in the bassinet, and I slept through 'Die Hard' in the theater as an infant.
-
Do you know how many companies have wanted me to do an energy drink for them because I named my book 'Crush It!'? It might be fun one day, but right now I think it would undermine the personal brand I've built.
-
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
-
Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.
-
The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.
-
We have rules that no longer are relevant to the world we're living in. Our regulatory system can't keep up.
-
O king! I was but a man like others, asleep upon my couch, when lo, the breezes of the All-Glorious were wafted over me, and taught me the knowledge of all that hath been. This thing is not from me, but from One Who is Almighty and All-Knowing.
-
And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.
-
I think 'Heroine' was Kareena Kapoor's best ever role of her career.
-
My coaching days are now over, and I'm proud of what I've achieved.
-
'Do you suppose a woman knows why she loves? Does she select? Does she say to herself, 'Go to! here is a distinguished statesman with presidential possibilities; I shall proceed to fall in love with him.' or, 'I shall set my heart upon this musician, whose fame is on every tongue?' or 'this financier, who controls the world's money markets?''
-
The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you - Then, it will be true.
-
For a wide-ranging look at literary matters, the 'Book Review Podcast' from the 'New York Times' is still one of the best. Presented by Pamela Paul, each episode has an interview with an author - recent guests have included Neil Gaiman and Sana Krasikov - plus a roundup of the uppers, downers and hanging-arounders on the U.S. bestsellers chart.
-
For what is the life of a man, if it is not interwoven with the life of former generations by as sense of history.
-
Everybody wants recognition, but we can't all get it.
-
If people go into music with the idea of competing with other artists, then they're doing it for all the wrong reasons.
-
Sometimes I make myself laugh, but that's because I appreciate my sense of humor.
-
The greatest of all heroes is One--whom we do not name here! Let sacred silence meditate that sacred matter; you will find it the ultimate perfection of a principle extant throughout man's whole history on earth.
