William Throsby Bridges Quotes

Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.

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• I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Guy
  • Free
  • College

• All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.

  

  Ian Dunbar
  • You
  • Training
  • Negotiation

• If you're not careful as an actor, you can find yourself, at a certain point, a little bit bored.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Yourself
  • Find
  • Actor

• A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Interesting
  • Revolution

• One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Life
  • Interesting
  • Dog

• I am from Karnal, India.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • India
  • Karnal

• 2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.

  

  Oliver Platt
  • Great
  • Me
  • Roles

• I have a weird vision of relationships because my parents have known each other since second grade, and they got married right out of college.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Parents
  • College
  • Vision

• It's the way tenure works, together with dismissal protections that tenured teachers have, that no other public employee has, which makes it almost impossible to remove a grossly ineffective and incompetent teacher or, in some cases, even an abusive teacher.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Together
  • Way
  • Teacher

• It's important to know what motivates you, not what motivates somebody else.

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Important
  • You
  • Know

• I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do. I never wanted to look at character I've done and cringe.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Work
  • Done
  • Character

• But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Sleep
  • Strange
  • Cats

• There is one sound way a man can bind a woman to him, the same way she will bind him, and with the same rope.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • She

• I really don't think of myself as a science writer.

  

  James Gleick
  • Science

• The world changes. The world is completely different now from when I was growing up. Back then, you didn't say things like they say now, out loud, about race and things. But that's just progress. When are we going to find out that we're all the same - we're all absolutely, without a doubt, the same?

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• When you have a sense of calling, whether it's to be a musician, soloist, artist, in one of the technical fields, or a plumber, there is something deep and enriching when you realize it isn't just a casual choice, it's a divine calling. It's not limited to vocational Christian service by any means.

  

  Charles R. Swindoll
  • Christian
  • Deep
  • Service

• I moved to L.A. after my landlord in Brooklyn tripled my rent. I spent months looking for other places to move to in New York, then one day I was in California eating a grapefruit, and I was like, 'This is what they taste like?' So I decided to move to L.A. and build a studio in my house.

  

  Dave Sitek Jane's Addiction
  • House
  • California

• I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction.

  

  Armistead Maupin

• Every opportunity that comes your way, you can't take lightly. You have to take it very, very seriously, because the opportunities are limited. If you want to keep working, you can't be such an elitist, to say no, that's not good enough, not big enough, not smart enough, whatever.

  

  Chris Klein
  • Good
  • Opportunity
  • Smart

• The legacy of Ronald Reagan will live on forever. I, of course, had the wonderful opportunity of working with him and getting to know him personally. A more wonderful person you couldn't meet. I think the coming down of the Berlin Wall will always live in infamy. I treasure his friendship and appreciate so much what he did for me personally and for the issue of reducing gun violence.

  

  Sarah Brady
  • Thinking
  • Opportunity
  • Wall

• The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Romantic

• If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.

  

  G. I. Gurdjieff
  • Tea
  • Spirituality
  • Cups

• Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.

  

  William Throsby Bridges
  • Opportunity
  • Genuine
  • Beginnings