William Godwin Quotes
Duty is that mode of action on the part of the individual which constitutes the best possible application of his capacity to the general benefit.William Godwin
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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
Orison Swett Marden -
Interior design is a business of trust.
Venus Williams -
I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.
Octavia Spencer -
I keep trying to convince people that I'm OK to wrestle, and I think that's probably the hard part. A lot of times I'm trying to convince myself, too, that I can wrestle. It's really hard, because the concussion issue is very subjective, and that's the part that a lot of people don't understand.
Daniel Bryan -
I've never worked in advertising - my experience was as an editorial designer for magazines - but you could say, in the bigger picture, that magazines are vehicles for colour advertising.
Barbara Kruger -
My wife and I have very deep roots in Colorado, and we can't see ourselves living anywhere else.
Victor Mitchell
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Dead men tell no tales.
Haniel Long -
If you have drive and energy, everything is possible.
Maelle Gavet -
I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life.
Madi Diaz -
If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I'd much rather be liked because people realize that I'm standing up for myself.
Maisie Williams -
That's sort of what we wanted to do: conquer from the margins, sort of find our place in the middle based on the fact that we were creatures of the margin and of alienation.
Walter Becker Steely Dan
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Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
Owen Feltham -
Ummm, there is not just one good thing about being a VJ, it is a package deal. It is a fun job and you get paid to party and have a good time and make people have a good time, which is great.
Nafisa Joseph -
There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep.
E. W. Howe -
I love apple juice.
Taye Diggs -
I left home at 15 because Hollywood isn't the best place to grow up.
Samuel Goldwyn -
In 2010, there was a TED event called Mission Blue held aboard the Lindblad Explorer in the Galapagos as part of the fulfillment of Sylvia Earle's TED wish. I spoke about a new way of exploring the ocean, one that focuses on attracting animals instead of scaring them away.
Edith Widder
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Today our approaches to children are fragmented and partial. Those who care for well children know little of children who are sick. The deep knowledge that comes from the intensive attempt to cure is separated from the knowledge of those whose main task is to teach.
Margaret Mead -
You're going to struggle. You're going to do well. You can't really let the past or the day before - whether you had a good day or bad day - dictate the day you have that certain day.
Andrew Benintendi -
We humans have a wide range of abilities that help us perceive and analyze mathematical content. We perceive abstract notions not just through seeing but also by hearing, by feeling, by our sense of body motion and position. Our geometric and spatial skills are highly trainable, just as in other high-performance activities. In mathematics we can use the modules of our minds in flexible ways - even metaphorically. A whole-mind approach to mathematical thinking is vastly more effective than the common approach that manipulates only symbols.
William Thurston -
The stuff I'm designing, I want my action scenes to be intense.
James Wan -
Duty is that mode of action on the part of the individual which constitutes the best possible application of his capacity to the general benefit.
William Godwin