Anna Olson Quotes

Success is seldom permanent, and failure is seldom fatal. The important thing is to keep trying.

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• There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Men
  • Successful
  • Petty

• It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Law
  • Justice
  • Spirit

• I'm proud of 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' I don't need to distance myself from that. The more work I do, the more the general public sees the different things I can do. Do I think it opened doors? Yeah. More people know my name.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Always
  • Model
  • Lovely

• One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Up
  • Responsibility
  • One Word

• My fans want me to talk to them. And even if they want to be critical, I want to hear what they've got to say.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Want
  • Fans
  • Say

• Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • You
  • Story
  • Discipline

• 'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Job
  • Respect
  • Self

• The movies I make - the goal isn't a mass audience. They're not expensive films. So the attempt is to reach a much more limited audience - one would say an audience that enjoys films that challenge them emotionally and intellectually.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Challenge
  • Goal
  • Movies

• He who aims at making an entire and perfect oblation of himself, in addition to his will, must offer his understanding, which is a further and the highest degree of obedience.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Perfect
  • Understanding
  • Will

• A man and a woman Are one. A man and a woman and a blackbird Are one.

  

  Wallace Stevens

• When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing receptiveness, her elasticity and adaptability combined with her power of tenacious retention, has exerted an influence, the value of which is too vast to be measured.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Life
  • Power
  • Value

• Our most fundamental social need, it turns out, to my amazement, is love. Now, I'm not a hippie-dippie whatever. If you look at the literature, our most fundamental need for children is an environment of maximum love, and that they can be hugged, kissed, and loved. That's what humanises us and allows us to realise our whole dimension.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Children
  • Environment
  • Literature

• I learned five chords; I thought I knew it all.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks

• Acting is the most demanding, painful job in the world.

  

  Arthur Smith
  • World
  • Job

• Charlestoning is hard. People were fit in the '20s to be able to do that. I guess they didn't sit in front of their computers all day.

  

  Elizabeth Debicki
  • People

• Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

  

  Louise J. Kaplan
  • Childhood

• When doing a fantasy show - or a show with fantasy elements - the more you can anchor an effect to reality, the stronger the illusion is.

  

  Jeremy Podeswa
  • Reality
  • Anchor

• The crowds are very important for tennis. It makes you play better, but it can also make you nervous and that's the beauty of it.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Important
  • Play
  • Tennis

• The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over a sequence of dramatic moments, so you empathize with the characters without really thinking about it too much. It is a really powerful tool for imagining yourself in other people's situations.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Moments

• Acting is very much like a child making believe. I'm not one to become a character, but I fall in love with the character. It's like having faith; you're going to be that person for a while.

  

  Lusia Strus
  • Believe
  • Character
  • Faith

• We often think about happiness as trying to increase our joy, but it's also about decreasing our worry. So what you get for paying those high taxes is, if you're a parent thinking about putting your child through school, you don't have to worry about it, because all education through college is free.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • School

• I try to visit people in hospitals when I can, smiling and joking while I'm there. But when I leave, I just start crying.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • People
  • Trying
  • Smile

• Success is seldom permanent, and failure is seldom fatal. The important thing is to keep trying.

  

  Anna Olson
  • Trying
  • Success
  • Failure