Carl Linnaeus Quotes

When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.

Carl Linnaeus

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• Research has shown that time pressure leads to tunnel vision and that people think more creatively when they are calm, unhurried and free from stress and distractions. We all know this from experience.

  

  Carl Honore
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• I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
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• Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.

  

  Natassia Malthe
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• The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike.

  

  Adam Davidson
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• The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

  

  Zubin Mehta
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• I couldnt imagine something asking as much of me as House Of Cards. Its a great warm-up for coming back to the screen.

  

  Kevin Spacey
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• I'd earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.

  

  Brian Wilson
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• Professional people make everything look perfect, they make everything that you're wearing look great, if it's in a picture or on the runway.

  

  Alessandra Ambrosio
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• You're saying that our souls and the stars and the wings of a butterfly are all somehow connected?

  

  T.A. Barron
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• Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.

  

  Brian Tracy
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• How you staff, particularly the chief of staff, the national security adviser, your White House counsel, how you set up a process in the system to surface information and generate options for a president, understanding that ultimately the president is going to be the final decision-maker. That's something that has to be attended to right away.

  

  Barack Obama
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• As a citizen, and as the state's lawyer, I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
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• Religion is using everything for God.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
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• And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
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• Spontaneously to God should turn the soul, Like the magnetic needle to the pole; But what were that intrinsic virtue worth, Suppose some fellow, with more zeal than knowledge, Fresh from St. Andrew's College, Should nail the conscious needle to the north?

  

  Thomas Hood

• Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief

  

  William Shakespeare
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• we often observe that there is abundance of capital to be had at low rates of interest, while there are also large numbers of artisans starving for want of employment.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
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• When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.

  

  Carl Linnaeus
  • Persons
  • Interest
  • Loses