Alvin R. Dyer Quotes

What I believe...about more sleep than is needful concerns the individual who goes far beyond the need, developing slothful and lazy habits, which deaden the senses and become a retarder of accomplishment. To overcome these things in life requires discipline and restraint.

Alvin R. Dyer

• Discipline
• Need
• Restraint

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• Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Change
  • Beginning

• I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • War
  • Want

• Time stays, we go.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Go
  • Stays

• When I come to London, I always like to see what's playing at the NFT.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Always
  • See
  • London

• I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Know
  • Best
  • End

• Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Life
  • Question
  • End

• For my money, when you're doing an on-camera performance, unless it's for something particularly stylised, you are, by and large, striving for naturalism.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Money
  • Doing
  • Performance

• The United Kingdom has traditionally been a very small market, and even though you had such a creative group of designers, they represented a risk to department stores.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Small
  • Risk
  • Creative

• Hollywood forgets easily. I want to be fulfilled and challenged.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Want
  • Hollywood
  • Fulfilled

• If Morrissey could be a singer, then anybody could.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Singer
  • Anybody
  • Then

• My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.

  

  Karel Capek
  • People
  • Soul
  • Perfect

• Each and every time I went in for IVF treatments, I knew there was a bipartisan group of Congresswomen praying for me, and I was honored that the same group was there at my baby shower.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Time
  • Baby
  • Praying

• We had a saying at Blockbuster: 'If you don't come in on Saturday, don't bother coming in on Sunday.' We worked hard.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • You
  • Sunday
  • Saying

• Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Character
  • Always
  • Fiction

• Sometimes parents squash students' interests because they are afraid of science or math. So they don't participate. You don't have to know the answers to engage kids; you just have to let them know it's important.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Parents

• Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Difference
  • Knowing
  • Wit

• You see and work with many of the same people over and over again; they are all specialists in what they do. I could never do their jobs, and they say they wouldn't know how to start to do a warm-up.

  

  Randy West
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Father
  • Failure
  • President of the United States

• Won’t you help the government in saving Gujarat? Won’t you help us in maintaining peace and harmony? The Government of Gujarat appeals to you for help, appeals to you for shanti (peace) and sanyam (restraint or self-discipline).

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Help
  • Peace
  • Discipline

• Are you willing to allow other the same right to their beliefs?” “If their beliefs don’t hurt others and, when I feel the need, I am allowed to call them stupid in my mind, then yes.”

  

  Nnedi Okorafor
  • Hurt
  • Need
  • Beliefs

• I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Great
  • Food
  • Chef

• Looking at 70 from 49, I don't see it slowing me down. Maybe I'll need a nap during the day! I'm thinking when I'm 85 I'll settle down a bit. But I'm going to fight, kicking and screaming, every step of the way.

  

  Kyle MacLachlan
  • Thinking

• What I believe...about more sleep than is needful concerns the individual who goes far beyond the need, developing slothful and lazy habits, which deaden the senses and become a retarder of accomplishment. To overcome these things in life requires discipline and restraint.

  

  Alvin R. Dyer
  • Discipline
  • Need
  • Restraint