Thomas Sowell Quotes

Neither the depth of despondency nor the height of euphoria tells you how long either will last.

Thomas Sowell

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• I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Myself
  • Doing
  • Mystery

• Though teenagers are generally very interested in sports, they must realise that education is the most important thing in their lives. They must find the right balance.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Important
  • Education
  • Sports

• There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that's huge.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Book

• I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • World
  • Population
  • Stabilization

• It's often out of my own insecurity. If I'm picky, it's for that reason. I want to be able to bring my best to the table. So if I'm not connecting to something, then I'm not gonna hold up my end of the bargain, and that's really embarrassing.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Up
  • Best
  • End

• Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Human
  • Theatre
  • Stage

• Adele ultimately did well in such a large way because she affects everybody, and the way that she writes seems to be popular music, not because of her skin color but because she writes great music, and it's popular in that way.

  

  Babyface
  • Great
  • Music
  • She

• We are still keeping, as much as we can to the one million commitment that we made, hoping that at a certain point in time, the headwinds represented by the strength of the yen will be a little bit less strong.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Commitment

• Now, I have a kid, I have businesses to take care of, I have to travel. I have to sit down... and find a little time for me.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Time
  • Care
  • Travel

• I'm a kid who grew up working hard.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Up
  • Working
  • Kid

• And the last point I would make about it is, the billionaires and millionaires that are going to be impacted by higher rates, they can afford to hire the best lawyers, lobbyists and accountants in America to figure out how not to pay those higher rates.

  

  Marco Rubio
  • America

• Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin

• The phrase 'no burden' largely captured what I wish people believed about themselves.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • People
  • Wish

• I kept bugging them about making it more upscale, because I felt Abby, through her cleverness and business sense, was a character who would move up. And that's what she did.

  

  Donna Mills
  • Business
  • Character
  • Cleverness

• I knew I wanted to be in music, but I didn't know my role, so I did everything from interning at Rolling Stone to writing heavy metal fanzines to playing in a high-school band, and I think all those things probably helped in a way.

  

  Mark Ronson
  • Music
  • Writing
  • School

• I think the governors would all agree that what we don't want from the federal government is unfunded mandates.

  

  James Douglas

• Wealth is the progressive realization of worthy goals, the ability to love and have compassion, meaningful and caring relationships.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Goals
  • Compassion
  • Meaningful

• My mother has never been involved in my professional life. I am very close to my mother but we keep it on a mother-daughter basis and not a work-related basis.

  

  Sheena Easton
  • Life
  • Work
  • Mother

• What I'm doing with my body and with my golf game, I'm trying to extend the longevity of my career.

  

  Jason Day
  • Trying
  • Game
  • Career

• In putting setting to work, I like to think about long shots and close-ups. The long shot is the overall view of the place in which the characters live - the island, the town, the wide sweep of place. Then we narrow in. The close-up, the tight focus, makes the place different from anywhere else.

  

  Kaui Hart Hemmings
  • Up
  • Work
  • Different

• I've never been with a group of people for that long. I mean, even my family I don't think I know as intimately as the people I worked with on 'West Wing.'

  

  Allison Janney
  • People
  • Long
  • Family

• I have chronic - well, I like to call it late-stage Lyme disease and not chronic, because I like to think someday I'll be all the way cured. It took me a really long time to get diagnosed, and I was misdiagnosed for a long, long time. I was very ill during the end of Le Tigre, which was kind of why that ended, amongst other things.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Time
  • Long
  • Why

• Neither the depth of despondency nor the height of euphoria tells you how long either will last.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Long
  • Lasts
  • Depth