Anita Stansfield Quotes

Person better and stronger, if they only take hold of what they’re dealt and make the most of it. Or they can let it overtake them and destroy them.

Anita Stansfield

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• Africa is the future.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Future
  • Africa

• After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Like
  • Beethoven
  • Wagner

• Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Desire
  • Movement
  • Western

• The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you've learned it.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Think
  • Learn
  • Doing

• One of the reasons I love to come to Paris is because the decorative arts are so refined that I am always walking through one proscenium into another frame.

  

  Ralph Gibson
  • Paris
  • Arts
  • Decorative

• Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Done
  • Man
  • Animal

• There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Failure
  • See
  • Darkness

• There is nothing like Ruth ever existed in this game of baseball. I remember we were playing the White Sox in Boston in 1919, and he hit a home run off Lefty Williams over the left-field fence in the ninth inning and won the game. It was majestic. It soared.

  

  Waite Hoyt
  • Home
  • Remember
  • Game

• Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Learn
  • Try
  • Humility

• The important thing is not the size of your faith - it is the One behind your faith - God Himself.

  

  Oral Roberts
  • God
  • Important
  • Faith

• I always loved song writers who wrote songs in the first person, so it's kind of like that.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Song
  • Person
  • Loved

• Keep in mind that, when I came in, we had had a crisis that was the worst we've seen since the 1930s, and working with people like Chancellor Merkel, working with the G-20 and other institutions internationally, we were able to stabilize the financial system, stabilize the US economy and return to growth.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Mind
  • Growth

• It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star: but even so - and all the more - what marvelous creatures we are! What fairy story, what tale from the Arabian Nights of the jinns, is a hundredth part as wonderful as this true fairy story of simians! It is so much more heartening, too, than the tales we invent. A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is - blind or not - a good world to live in, a promising universe. . . . We once thought we lived on God's footstool, it may be a throne.

  

  Clarence Day
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• You can do ANYTHING you want to do-This is your World.

  

  Bob Ross
  • World

• Piano playing consists of common sense, heart and technical resources. All three should be equally developed. Without common sense you are a fiasco, without technique an amateur, without heart a machine. The profession does have its hazards.

  

  Vladimir Horowitz
  • Common
  • Doe
  • Profession

• Fear is the enemy of curiosity.

  

  Warren Berger
  • Enemy
  • Curiosity

• Ignorant men do not know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

  

  Sophocles
  • Ignorant
  • Hold
  • Flung

• The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Free
  • You
  • Speech

• Being thus prepared for us in all ways, and made beautiful, and good for food, and for building, and for instruments of our hands, this race of plants, deserving boundless affection and admiration from us, becomes, in proportion to their obtaining it, a nearly perfect test of our being in right temper of mind and way of life; so that no one can be far wrong in either who loves trees enough, and everyone is assuredly wrong in both who does not love them, if his life has brought them in his way.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Building

• Person better and stronger, if they only take hold of what they’re dealt and make the most of it. Or they can let it overtake them and destroy them.

  

  Anita Stansfield
  • Make
  • Hold
  • Overtake