Alvan Macauley Quotes

Reputation is a reward, to be sure, but it is really the beginning, not the end of endeavor. It should not be the signal for a let-down, but rather, a reminder that the standards which won recognition can never again be lowered. From him who gives much - much is forever after expected.

Alvan Macauley

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• With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.

  

  Iain Glen
  • Woman
  • Look
  • Modesty

• For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.

  

  Karen O
  • Space
  • Rest
  • California

• We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.

  

  Sam Ewing
  • World
  • Born
  • Profit

• I've been writing for years, you know, and when I get to a particular place, city, or different locale, I find myself first of all being challenged by those that love me to write more.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Know
  • City
  • Write

• I think I've definitely found a niche working in comedy, but dramatic films are what brought me here. After I saw 'Titanic' in the theater, I got the bug.

  

  Carly Craig
  • Think
  • Me
  • Comedy

• I have tried every diet to lose weight. When you restrict yourself, you're setting yourself up for failure.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Up
  • Failure
  • Yourself

• Look, I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Family
  • Faith
  • Community

• Today, people tend to credit me with having the original idea and made the first circuits.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • People
  • Today
  • Credit

• If you take it as a compliment that you don't look your age, then you're really shooting yourself in the foot.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Age
  • Yourself
  • Look

• I was fooling everyone by surrounding myself with funny people. But then I put myself out there - writing my own sketches, going on stage with nobody surrounding me - and for some reason people were still laughing.

  

  Carly Craig
  • People
  • Writing
  • Funny

• I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy - a crow and a rabbit - to remind me of home. I like art and have a big portrait of Bjork.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Art
  • Home
  • Bigs

• Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Action
  • Revolution
  • Pressure

• When I get ready to do an album, that means I have something to say for the sake of words, and I listen back to all of the things I've been creating and pull things from out of the air to go with them. It's almost like I start creating the album before I even think about creating it.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Thinking
  • Words
  • Mean

• To succeed in life, succeed at being yourself.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Succeed
  • Being Yourself

• My Calamity is my providence, outwardly it is fire and vengeance, but inwardly it is light and mercy.

  

  Bahá'u'lláh
  • Light
  • Fire
  • Mercy

• There is no need to accept the standards of the world at large.

  

  Menachem Mendel Schneerson
  • World
  • Needs
  • Accepting

• One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Revenge
  • Dealing
  • Arrogance

• And oh! I shall find how, day by day, All thoughts and things look older; How the laugh of pleasure grows less gay, And the heart of friendship colder.

  

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed
  • Heart
  • Looks
  • Pleasure

• The globalization that has swept away the barriers to the movement of goods, ideas and people has also swept with it barriers that confined and localized security threats.

  

  Mohamed ElBaradei
  • Security
  • Movement
  • Globalization

• In England people are very proud of being very stupid.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Proud
  • Stupid

• Reputation is a reward, to be sure, but it is really the beginning, not the end of endeavor. It should not be the signal for a let-down, but rather, a reminder that the standards which won recognition can never again be lowered. From him who gives much - much is forever after expected.

  

  Alvan Macauley
  • Reputation
  • Standards
  • Endeavor