Charles Macomb Flandrau Quotes
It is good to appreciate that life is now. Whatever it offers, little or much, life is now – this day – this hour.Charles Macomb Flandrau
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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other classic things in life that we undervalue and take them for granted. If you think of the classic lines of the modern jet aircraft, it's really been there since early World War II.
Ian Anderson -
India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.
Gary Wright -
So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.
Wanda Jackson -
One of the nice things about writing is you can take essentially painful things in your life and turn them into something that might be useful, or at least entertaining, to somebody else.
Patrick deWitt -
The more you create authentic power, the more the characteristics of authentic power become yours, and the more meaning, purpose and joy enter your life.
Gary Zukav
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I guess I lead a double life, and I must admit I'm happy with both.
Yvonne De Carlo -
I wrote my second novel, 'A Little Life,' in what I still think of as a fever dream: For 18 months, I was unable to properly concentrate on anything else.
Hanya Yanagihara -
One can make no better investment than the cultivation of a taste for the beautiful, for it will bring rainbow hues and enduring joys to the whole life. It will not only greatly increase one's capacity for happiness, but also one's efficiency.
Orison Swett Marden -
Genius borrows nobly. When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies: 'Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life'.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
It doesn't matter whether I'm judged criminal. I have a great feeling of guilt - I have a feeling that I ran after Hitler like a wildfire without reason. If I can sacrifice my life to make something good, I'd gladly do it.
Hans Frank -
It's a mere moment in a man's life between the All-Star Game and an old timer's game.
Vin Scully
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And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
Joanne Rowling -
I've spent most of my life embracing violence in wars and revolutions. Even a famine is a form of violence. Because I photograph people in peril, people in pain, people being executed in front of me, I find it very difficult to get my head around the art narrative of photography.
Don McCullin -
I think too much during my day-to-day life; I'm the guy who worries about everything.
Brian Posehn -
The world belongs to no one. There are very few people who fit into the world. And part of the struggle of every human life is to somehow claim a place on the planet, but it's at the forefront of the experience of the wandering race. The wandering people.
Deborah Eisenberg -
You don't always have to get an expensive gym membership. The important thing is to keep moving and to make it fun and have variety - it's the spice of life.
Christie Brinkley -
Art is commenting on what's going on around you in your life.
Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
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It is not the time spent with the child at their activity that is going to produce the highest level athlete. It is in supporting the child in an organized activity - and Bill alluded to this - so the child can find what they truly like to do and let them go.
Frank Shorter -
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.
Bodhidharma -
I want people to believe in themselves. I want intellectual curiosity. I want someone who realizes that they don't know it all and that they're dying to learn.
Kevin Plank -
You've got to stop thinking everyone's problems can be solved by falling in love.
Melissa de la Cruz -
It is good to appreciate that life is now. Whatever it offers, little or much, life is now – this day – this hour.
Charles Macomb Flandrau