Minnie Maddern Fiske Quotes

You must make your own blunders, must cheerfully accept your own mistakes as part of the scheme of things.

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• For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Love
  • Difficult
  • Lord

• I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Writing
  • Author
  • Living

• He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Long
  • Sports
  • Win

• The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • World
  • Country
  • History

• If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Good
  • Faith

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Try
  • Very
  • Eating

• 'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I haven't written many like that.

  

  Feist
  • Mind
  • End
  • Songwriting

• I did a job. I completed my Matric and my Bachelors. I did a marketing job. I worked as a bus hostess. I did a lot of jobs; I struggled a lot. I got out from there. The first thing I did when I got out of Darul Aman was my Matric. Then I did my Bachelors privately; I kept doing it.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Job
  • Doing
  • Marketing

• I think the studio gave me that series on purpose, because they knew perfectly well that Robert Riskin was ill and that I needed to go to work. They gave me that series to do.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Work
  • Think
  • Purpose

• The last thing I think I am is perfect. I'm just trying to do the best job I can. I'm trying to be the best father I can to my kids. I'm trying to do the best job I can running my business.

  

  James Packer
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Job

• We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fundamental rightness, and allow nothing to hinder them from their goal in the pursuit of their mission.

  

  Dorothy Day
  • Believe

• By default, most of us have taken the dare to simply survive. Exist. Get through. For the most part, we live numb to life - we've grown weary and apathetic and jaded... and wounded.

  

  Ann Voskamp
  • Life
  • Live
  • Taken

• Obama and the Democrats' preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our economic problems. The inescapable conclusion, however, is that the primary driver of the short-term deficit is not tax cuts but the lack of any meaningful economic growth over the last half decade.

  

  Bob Beauprez
  • Growth
  • Meaningful

• I mean, I would love to have the career Joan Baez is having in Europe right now, but God knows I don't begrudge her that career.

  

  Janis Ian
  • God
  • Career

• Ice cream is my vice.

  

  Brad Meltzer

• I don't just want to go out there and do my job - I want to excel at it. I hold myself to a high standard. I expect to make plays that alter the game, and if I don't, I hold myself accountable.

  

  Clay Matthews III
  • Job
  • High
  • Game

• Wages, investments, and home values are the three legs of the economic stool for most Americans.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • Home

• In my own country, I play light comedies and funny parts.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Country
  • Funny
  • Light

• Change is like a charging cow. Don't ignore it - milk it.

  

  Andrew Leigh
  • Change
  • Ignore

• You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Trying
  • Way
  • Mistake

• You must make your own blunders, must cheerfully accept your own mistakes as part of the scheme of things.

  

  Minnie Maddern Fiske
  • Mistake
  • Accepting
  • Blunders