Quotes are the key to the knowledge and wisdom of many great people. Find your own beacon on the road to success among our collection of inspirational quotes.
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Attributed in the 'quote of the day' source code of the 'Fortune' computer program (June 1987); more at 'The Most Exciting Phrase in Science Is Not ‘Eureka!’ But ‘That’s funny …’' at Quote Investigator
Isaac Asimov -
Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.
Aristotle -
Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources.
Michael Rostovtzeff -
All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
W. Clement Stone -
I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear.
Flannery O'Connor
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The remarkable thing about 'Avatar' is the degree to which the technology is integral to the story. It is important to show Pandora and its Na'Vi natives in 3-D because 'Avatar' is fundamentally about the moral necessity of seeing other beings fully.
Adam Cohen -
Sometimes my songs wander off a bit and are not always coherent.
Adele -
If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.
Mark Twain -
The U.S. withdrawal from the Kyoto protocol endangers the entire process.
Laurent Fabius -
By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
Walter Gilbert -
In soap, fatty acids made from boiling pork bone fat are used as a hardening agent, but also for giving it a pearl-like effect.
Christien Meindertsma
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
The heart is cooking a pot of food for you. Be patient until it is cooked
Rumi -
'Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore -Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!'Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore.'
Edgar Allan Poe -
Education is not received. It is achieved.
Albert Einstein -
I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
Anais Nin -
The power of story is potent and that's why historical fiction can be an extraordinarily significant way of teaching people logical truth propositions, moves you along, moves your emotions as well as informs your intellect.
Hank Hanegraaff
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Science, ever since the time of the Arabs, has had two functions: (1) to enable us to know things, and (2) to enable us to do things.
Bertrand Russell -
I have many moments of self doubt. Everybody does.
Margot Robbie -
A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.
Confucius -
The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.
Bernard Avishai -
I do think that people outside the fashion industry imagine that being a model is what you might call quick, easy money, but it can be very lonely - you have to be quite tough. It's also very physically demanding.
Gabriella Wilde -
But I don't only get recognized for 'Friday the 13th.' I was on a TV show called' I've Got a Secret.' I was on that show for ten or eleven years. The older people always remember me from that.
Betsy Palmer