William Congreve Quotes

I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.

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• To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

  

  Pat Riley
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  • Success
  • Leadership

• I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.

  

  Ted Chiang
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Years

• I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Think
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  • Loved

• It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.'

  

  Garrett Hedlund
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  • Women
  • Kids

• The California Science Center is a cornerstone in California's push to educate and encourage students to reach their full potential and to pursue careers in science and engineering.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Science
  • California
  • Engineering

• Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
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  • Hands

• Doing the long lines - it looks easy when actresses do it: they just say it straight up, looks like they do nothing wrong, they just keep going, but it's not like that.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
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• It's one of the few regrets of my presidency - that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There's no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I'll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.

  

  Barack Obama
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  • Trying
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• There are times when fixing things quickly is the only option: when you have to channel MacGyver, reach for the duct tape, and cobble together whatever solution works right now. If someone is choking on a morsel of food, you don't sit back, stroke your chin and take the Aristotelian long view. You quickly administer the Heimlich maneuvre.

  

  Carl Honore
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  • Together
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• I was writing at a really young age, but it took me a long time to be brave enough to become a published writer, or to try to become a published writer. It's a very public way to fail. And I was kind of scared, so I started out as a ghost writer, and I wrote for other series, like Disney 'Aladdin' and 'Sweet Valley' and books like that.

  

  K. A. Applegate
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  • Writing

• When I lived in London, I worked three jobs and had such long work days.

  

  Hannah Simone
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  • London

• I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.

  

  Saffron Aldridge
  • Music
  • Yoga
  • Cinema

• For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.

  

  Sally Ride
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  • Long
  • Women

• Productive givers focus on acting in the long-term best interests of others, even if it's not pleasant. They have the courage to give the critical feedback we prefer not to hear, but truly need to hear. They offer tough love, knowing that we might like them less, but we'll come to trust and respect them more.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Respect
  • Like
  • Courage

• Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.

  

  Hannah Simone
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  • Science
  • Political

• It's difficult to make your clients understand that there are certain days that the market will go up or down 2%, and it's basically driven by algorithms talking to algorithms. There's no real rhyme or reason for that. So it's difficult. We just try to preach long-term investing and staying the course.

  

  Warren Stephens
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  • Real

• You don't have to follow what most players do by going to the top school. You can do anything at any school you're at, as long as you're focused and you work hard.

  

  Elena Delle Donne
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  • School

• I've always been anxious about 'Primer.' There's good things about it, but all I've seen for a long time is the flaws.

  

  Shane Carruth
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  • Flaws

• We remake the world through our technologies, and these in turn remake and extend us, in ever spiraling lattices of complexity. McLuhan uncannily foresaw the future, where electronic technology would shape and expand cultures and societies into a global membrane of communications.

  

  B. W. Powe
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  • Future
  • Technology

• For toddlers I suggest leaving their mittens on year-round, indoors and out. That way they can't get into aspirin bottles, liquor cabinets, or boxes of kitchen matches.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • Funny
  • Baby

• About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Language
  • Impossible
  • Try

• I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.

  

  William Congreve
  • Long
  • Science
  • Reflection