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

• Lucky fools do not bear the slightest suspicion that they may be lucky fools - by definition, they do not know that they belong to such a category.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • May

• The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• 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

• I'd written personal essays before, but never on this scale - never so often and with such, er, honesty. (If by honesty I mean slashing my wrists and hemorrhaging all over the computer screen).

  

  Ayelet Waldman
  • Honesty

• 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

• I met David Smith through my former wife, Cornelia, who'd studied with him.

  

  Kenneth Noland
  • Wife

• I've been my most happy and my most unhappy in relationships. I have family and friends and people I care very much about. I've got a really, really, really good life.

  

  George Clooney
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• Once in a while, you'll get somebody who watched 'One Tree Hill' and 'Supernatural,' but by and large, whoever watches one show is very distinct. There's not a lot of crossover. It's like, 'This is my show, and I love this show. I know everything about this show. My show is my show, and it will be until I die.'

  

  Lindsey McKeon
  • Die
  • Tree
  • Supernatural

• The U.S. and China need to take steps - mostly individually, sometimes together - that will have the mutually beneficial effect of supporting and sustaining economic growth.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • Together
  • Growth
  • Economic

• “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