Nathanael Emmons Quotes

Steady, patient, persevering thinking will generally surmount every obstacle in search of truth.

Nathanael Emmons

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• Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Free
  • Wish
  • Crazy

• I tend to deal with characters who are sort of at that same point of wrestling with, 'Who am I going to be as an adult? What do I believe? How am I defining myself in the context of my culture and my peer groups, my family?'

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Culture

• How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of all you need to know the business. After that you know the business, you can - the numbers tell you what is happening. You can read with the numbers.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Business
  • Think
  • Numbers

• You didn't hear anything about 'Celtic Pride' when they had Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe and they were only winning 32 games a year.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • You
  • Winning
  • Pride

• I entered the acting world at a time when there was a higher demand for Middle Eastern actors in the post-9/11 world, and yeah, the roles weren't great.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• In writing a weird story, I always try very carefully to achieve the right mood and atmosphere and place the emphasis where it belongs.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Writing
  • Weird
  • Story

• I vividly remember Charles Bronson's face in 'Chino.' The western genre is screaming for a face like that.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Remember
  • Like
  • Face

• Nothing in life is promised except death.

  

  Kanye West
  • Life
  • Death
  • Nothing

• Selecting Budapest would not only be a new city and country for the Olympic Games, but put the region on the map. We want to organise the first Central Eastern Europe Olympics.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Country
  • Want
  • City

• I worked for Microsoft until 1996, till I had a different angle to view life. I wanted to be an entrepreneur and control my own destiny.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Life
  • Different
  • Control

• You cannot properly bring up children when you are 69 or 70 and they are 12 and at the height of their madness. You can physically do it, but I don't think it's morally justified.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Up
  • Children
  • Think

• I only cook when I'm in love.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Love
  • Only
  • Cook

• My sister had some ailment and convulsions that she suffered from, and she had been sent to some place to go and get healed there. She was brought back and prayed for by those people. She recovered; in fact, she grew to be an evangelist in her own right, healing people and traveling around.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • People
  • She
  • Sister

• Economic life should be definancialised. We should learn not to use markets as storehouses of value: they do not harbour the certainties that normal citizens require. Citizens should experience anxiety about their own businesses (which they control), not their investments (which they do not control).

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Control

• …if we intend to pursue the history of our species in its further attainments, we may soon enter on subjects which will confine our observation to more narrow limits. The genius of political wisdom and civil arts appears to have chosen his seats in particular tracts of the earth, and to have selected his favourites in particular races of men.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Men
  • May
  • History

• We must not indulge in unfavourable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe that they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Men

• And I know, and you know too That a love, like ours Is terrible news But that wont stop me crying No, that wont stop me crying over you

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Stop
  • Crying

• Tritt listened placidly, clearly understanding nothing, but content to be listening; while Odeen, transmitting nothing, was as clearly content to be lecturing.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Understanding
  • Listening

• I'm definitely not a guy that comes in the dressing room saying, "Hey, everybody, what a wonderful life." I'm usually brooding about something I think is wrong. I care so much about getting the music right, and if I think someone's slacking I get very upset about that. I just can't go on stage and say, "Another day, another dollar," which I've heard a few people say: I can't go along with that at all. It's got to be as good as you can do - to my own detriment.

  

  Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Guy

• I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa; unless of course the pictorial magazines and comic strips finally atrophy man's capacity to read, and literature really is on its way back to the picture writing in the Neanderthal cave.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Picture
  • Literature
  • Write

• If you can't do it with one bullet, don't do it at all.

  

  Sean Connery
  • Bullet

• Steady, patient, persevering thinking will generally surmount every obstacle in search of truth.

  

  Nathanael Emmons
  • Thinking
  • Truth
  • Obstacle