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

• Barbara Castle was a hero to millions of British women. She inspired a new generation of women to become active in Labour politics, including, of course Labour's deputy leader, Harriet Harman.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Women
  • Inspired
  • Hero

• We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Education
  • Place
  • Equal

• I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Time
  • Think
  • I Think

• 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

• People's blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • Work
  • Power

• 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

• I don't think, there's no possible way for me, anyway, to play a character that I haven't found some sort of sublime compassion for and I related to Deborah on a way that almost, initially, almost in a way maybe someone in the audience might.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Character
  • Me
  • Compassion

• 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

• For the man who makes everything that leads to happiness, or near to it, to depend upon himself, and not upon other men, on whose good or evil actions his own doings are compelled to hinge,--such a one, I say, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation; this is the man of manly character and of wisdom.

  

  Plato
  • Character
  • Wisdom
  • Evil

• I don't want to be knocked out. But the contact and the focus and the energy I get from sparring gives me energy to make movies, energy to be a dad, energy to be a friend, and, you know, makes me feel, probably, a lot younger and behave a lot younger than I am.

  

  Peter Berg
  • Energy
  • Dad
  • Friend

• Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Education

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

  

  Anna Olson
  • Trying
  • Success
  • Failure