Thomas Carlyle Quotes
All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven.
Quotes to Explore
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I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria.
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I am surrounded by great people.
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We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
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The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
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We know that flat and non-hierarchical systems use information best. I've tried to do that with my own company because it works better that way. And society at large will work better as well if we can get rid of these old institutions and hierarchies. New innovations like the block chain can make this possible.
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I realized that after years of studying Shakespeare and Chekhov and regional repertory theater, what I really wanted to do was bust in and rob a bank and jump in the screaming getaway car and tear through the city and get in a shootout.
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Every woman who chooses - joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of their own free will and desire - not to have a child does womankind a massive favour in the long term.
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I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
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A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.
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It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
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Any woman who stays with her abuser beyond the first incident is complicitous with him.
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Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
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I don't think too much about age. Maybe if you're hurting, aching and arthritic, then you think about it a lot. But I don't.
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Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.
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I've had purpose because I've always wanted to be successful, but having my son is the cherry on top. He makes me go harder in achieving all that I've dreamed of.
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Who among you will love something more than you love yourself, all right?
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History has always judged silence and complicity harshly in these times of moral consequence.
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I value not being good at things, because children are not good at things.
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Head knowledge without heart knowledge is worse than useless; but when head and heart join forces, it changes our lives forever.
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I guess I think that films have to be made totally by fascists -- there's no room for democracy in making film.
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When you put your total faith in God, no matter what happens, to a person who's a true believer, if you die, you know you're going to heaven to be with God.
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Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
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I really don't feel as connected to Heaven as I do to the ones where I was there from start to finish. And on this record I was there for every moment.
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All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven.
