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

• I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • People
  • Piano
  • Tour

• I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to really make it a challenge. I don't know how to create by taking the easy routes. I've tried, you know, I've tried to let myself, but I always struggle to compensate.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Help
  • Myself
  • Challenge

• Do stupid stuff and even stupider suff will happen to you.

  

  Dan Gutman
  • Stupid
  • Stuff
  • Happen

• We don't need more bullying, and I'm tired of it.

  

  Cindy McCain
  • Tired
  • Need
  • Bullying

• Regardless of your subject matter, there are ways to engage students in critical thinking about racism which are relevant to your discipline.

  

  Beverly Daniel Tatum
  • Discipline
  • Racism
  • Students

• 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