Harold Taylor Quotes

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

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• Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Up
  • High
  • Small

• I have been to Canada several times. It was autumn when I visited Vancouver, and I will always remember the colour of the trees in British Columbia were stunning.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Remember
  • Trees
  • Autumn

• You get your heart stomped by the opposite sex, and you're hurting so badly that you write 'Sometimes When We Touch.' But then what happens when you've been married for 25 years? You can't rely on those emotional male-female roller coasters. You have to start using your imagination and the powers of empathy more.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Heart
  • Imagination
  • Emotional

• That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.

  

  Gamaliel Bailey
  • Money
  • Free
  • Doubt

• There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Relationship
  • Child
  • Poverty

• You have to actually be weighted to something to do the moonwalk, you know.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • You
  • Know
  • Something

• I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Country
  • Love
  • Expectations

• Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Great
  • Artist
  • Poetry

• Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Education
  • Form
  • Rewards

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Progress
  • Discrimination

• We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Need
  • Group
  • China

• Harold Lloyd was not a comedian. But he was the finest actor to play a comedian that I ever saw.

  

  Hal Roach
  • Play
  • Actor
  • Comedian

• If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • School
  • Serious
  • Place

• When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Long
  • Me
  • Short

• I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Me
  • Present

• We are facing extreme volatility.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Extreme
  • Facing
  • Volatility

• I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Beginning
  • Write
  • Down

• The paradigm of the 'Aquarian Conspiracy' sees humankind embedded in nature. It promotes the autonomous individual in a decentralized society... The new perspective respects the ecology of everything: birth, death, learning, health, family, work, science, spirituality, the arts, the community, relationships, politics.

  

  Marilyn Ferguson
  • Work
  • Family
  • Nature

• I'm engaged to Hollywood. If there's something I find I have to do, I'll do it. Otherwise, I'll just stay home and have a vacation.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Home
  • Find
  • Vacation

• I don't see money or a particular status as an actor as a goal, but I want to do the best work I can in as interesting a range of roles as I can.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Work
  • Money
  • Interesting

• The best thing I've learned is that you have to listen to your body, and you have to be your own physician. Don't ignore those little groaning aches and pains.

  

  Valerie Cruz
  • Best
  • Body
  • Ignore

• If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.

  

  Doris Day
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

  

  Harold Taylor
  • True
  • Best
  • Achievement