Alex Faickney Osborn Quotes

If you go fishing you may not catch any fish. If you don't go fishing, you'll never catch any fish.

Alex Faickney Osborn

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• A heroic nature is very Greek.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Nature
  • Very
  • Greek

• Networking is never easier than when people are coming to you.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • People
  • You
  • Networking

• We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Being
  • Traffic

• God made them as stubble to our swords.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • God
  • Made
  • Our

• The retirement timing is always a tricky thing for a dancer. I think it's different for everyone. How you say goodbye to the thing you have really focused on that much is a tough one. I've always intended to leave in good shape, to exit on a high note.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Good
  • Different
  • High

• The mind must first reflect upon itself in order that it may frame a rule of Justice, and not be inclined to do to another what it would not have done to itself, nor refuse to another what it desires for itself. These two assuredly comprise the whole sphere of Justice.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Mind
  • Done
  • May

• It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Women
  • Over
  • Disappointments

• I used to listen to 'Perfect Day' by Hoku every single day in high school! 'On this perfect day, nothin' standin' in my way... Don't you try to rain on my perfect day.' It pumped me up when I was feeling down or defeated, whether it was from the cool kids making me feel left out or feeling overwhelmed with homework and mean teachers.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Up
  • School
  • Kids

• I will say that rowing in the first Olympics was probably one of the most proud moments in my life. What I enjoy about the sport is that it's definitive. Nobody can take away from the fact that you're an Olympian. It's indisputable. You get there on merit and merit alone.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Life
  • Alone
  • Proud

• I remember I would always joke among my friends about a remake of 'Point Break'. I would say, 'You know what? Whenever there's a remake of 'Point Break', I'm going to do it.'

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Know

• No, I have not a drop of what they call white blood in my veins. My father was a full blooded Negro, and my mother was a full blooded Chippewa.

  

  Edmonia Lewis
  • Mother
  • Father
  • White

• I think I might become a pescatarian. I love sushi, couldn't give it up.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Think
  • Give
  • Become

• I've managed to get some beautiful bags. I have a great collection, and so does my mother. My favourite is a purple one by Gucci, which I take everywhere!

  

  Becki Newton
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Beautiful

• I like the strategy of finding great entrepreneurs early, giving them some money, helping them a little - perhaps not as much as we would a regular core investment.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • Great
  • Money
  • Giving

• I started buying vinyl records when I got into punk music because, in the punk scene in New Jersey, vinyl was more like a necessity than a luxury.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Music
  • Luxury
  • Punk

• A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Family
  • Woman
  • Loving

• My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.

  

  Ram Dass
  • God
  • Said
  • Him

• Although you should never mention your premise in the dialogue of your play, the audience must know what the message is. And whatever it is, you must prove it.

  

  Lajos Egri
  • Know
  • Never
  • Audience

• “Because genes work in combination, the incremental effect of adding a new gene to a genome may be not linear, but exponential.”

  

  Gary Marcus
  • Effect
  • Combination
  • Genes

• It's such an insult that foul gas comes out of a hole in our butt with a sound to announce itself. It's the ultimate bad thing about being a person.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Bad
  • Sound
  • Insult

• Most of us feel overburdened by information, although I would say the overloaded feeling comes more from coordinating all of the information and responding to it.

  

  David Rose
  • Feeling

• In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

  

  Louis Nizer
  • Funny
  • Water
  • Fishing

• To cook your hare you must first catch it.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • First
  • Catch
  • Cook

• If you go fishing you may not catch any fish. If you don't go fishing, you'll never catch any fish.

  

  Alex Faickney Osborn
  • Fishing
  • Fish
  • Catch