Renee Fleming Quotes

Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived. I'm still learning all the time.

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• Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Why
  • Door
  • Speak

• As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • United States
  • Israel
  • Relations

• Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Think
  • Television
  • Radio

• I just respect Kanye as an artist.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Respect
  • Artist
  • Just

• The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Up
  • Important
  • Play

• A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Up
  • Time
  • Year

• The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Men
  • Women
  • Short

• We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Work
  • God
  • Present

• If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Long
  • Find
  • Little

• A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • People
  • Band
  • Face

• When you work somewhere and you feel comfortable, you don't want to leave. You want to stay there forever.

  

  Felix Hernandez
  • Work
  • Want
  • You

• Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Cold
  • Everyone
  • Too Much

• Lawyer even sounds like liar.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Lawyer
  • Liar

• I have pondered long, and I know now that only the pure of heart forgive the thirst that leads to dead waters. And only the sure of foot can give a hand to him who stumbles.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Long
  • Heart
  • Hand

• In our science and philosophy, even, there is commonly no true and absolute account of things. The spirit of sect and bigotry has planted its hoof amid the stars. You have only to discuss the problem, whether the stars are inhabited or not, in order to discover it.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • True
  • Science

• I was bullied in first grade, and it's definitely not fun. But always tell somebody instead of holding it in. Communicate with people and just say, 'Hey, I'm being bullied. I need help.'

  

  Leo Howard
  • People
  • Help
  • Fun

• I've never spent a whole year in one place without leaving.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Leaving

• If we bring together the right people, communities can flourish and wildlife can survive alongside them.

  

  Jochen Zeitz
  • People
  • Together

• As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.

  

  Emmet Fox
  • Life
  • May
  • Thoughts

• When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Work
  • Freedom
  • Imagination

• The intelligent employer encourages challenge, questioning--not blind acceptance and "our Leader knows best" acclaim.

  

  Mary Barnett Gilson
  • Challenge
  • Intelligent
  • Acceptance

• When I understand this liability as a trade-off for my strengths, something new and liberating arises within me. I no longer want to have my liability 'fixed'-by learning how to dance solo, for example, when no one wants to dance with me-for to do that would be to compromise or even destroy my gift.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Learning
  • Dance

• If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we have ever prepared for war.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Work
  • War
  • Peace

• Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived. I'm still learning all the time.

  

  Renee Fleming
  • Learning
  • Progress
  • Stills