Basil W. Maturin Quotes

“Discontent is the first step in progress. No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to.”

Basil W. Maturin

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• I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Great
  • Support
  • Wall

• I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • Up
  • Done

• For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • Home

• Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • Want
  • Culture
  • Popular

• If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Work
  • Great
  • Knowledge

• In cognitively demanding fields, there are no naturals. Nobody walks into an operating room straight out of a surgical rotation and does world-class neurosurgery.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • World
  • Nobody
  • Room

• How can German music not be represented by an article?

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Music
  • German
  • How

• I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Finish

• Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Faith
  • Competition
  • Challenges

• If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Money

• Speaking much also is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deeds.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Words

• I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Time
  • God
  • Soul

• I'm not going to put my lot in with economists.

  

  Hillary Clinton

• From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou suppose it possible for him to think that human life is anything great? It is not possible, he said. Such a man then will think that death also is no evil.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• FEMA? I always thought it was a bone here in your ass.

  

  Lewis Black

• In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • God
  • Family

• The kind of acting I love is when you watch and you discover what you think perhaps you weren't supposed to see: the chink in the armor.

  

  Marian Seldes

• The images you see in media are vital to impacting not just what the world sees in terms of who can be a computer scientist, who can be techie, who can be a geek or who can be a creator; it also impacts the girls and what they internalize.

  

  Kimberly Bryant
  • World

• My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can. Children are naive - they trust everyone. School is bad enough, but, if you put a child anywhere in the vicinity of a church, you're asking for trouble.

  

  Frank Zappa
  • Children
  • School
  • Bad

• We shall make progress towards Swaraj only if we do everything thoughtfully and with understanding.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Understanding
  • Progress
  • Swaraj

• It is a mystery that is hidden from me by reason that the emergency requiring the fathoming of it hath not in my life-days occurred, and so, not having no need to know this thing, I abide barren of the knowledge.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Life
  • Knowledge

• But I don't believe in organised politics, organised religion, organised music, organised anything.

  

  Link Wray
  • Music
  • Believe

• “Discontent is the first step in progress. No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to.”

  

  Basil W. Maturin
  • Progress
  • Discontent
  • Tries