William Macneile Dixon Quotes

Our desires attract supporting reasons as a magnet the iron fillings.

William Macneile Dixon

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• Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Never
  • Doing
  • Morals

• My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Writing
  • She
  • Texas

• The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.

  

  John Sununu
  • Business
  • American

• You can't control the quality of projects that are coming to you, so if you get several in a row that are quality, you take them.

  

  John Travolta
  • Control
  • Quality
  • Ifs

• Anyone who used the word hip probably wasn't.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • Word
  • Used
  • Hip

• Clothes and manners do not make the...

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Clothes
  • Manners

• It is proper for every one to consider, in the case of all men, that he who has not been a servant cannot become a praiseworthy master; and it is meet that we should plume ourselves rather on acting the part of a servant properly than that of the master, first, towards the laws, (for in this way we are servants of the gods), and next, towards our elders.

  

  Plato
  • Laws
  • Master
  • Consider

• Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears.

  

  Euripides
  • Destiny
  • Tears
  • Accept

• Too much zeal offends where indirection works.

  

  Euripides
  • Works
  • Zeal
  • Offends

• What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Demand
  • Philosopher
  • Timeless

• Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory. - Diane Arbus By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Confidence
  • Victory
  • Winner

• I'd like to run for president. Or Prime Minister. I think I could do a better job.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Thinking
  • Running
  • President

• The house was immaculate, as always, not a stray hair anywhere, not a flake of dandruff or a crumpled towel. Even the roses on the dining-room table held their breath. A kind of airless cleanliness that always made me want to sneeze.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • House
  • Kind
  • Rose

• Mind you, it’s all bullshit with wine, isn’t it? It’s just f**king vinegar with a fizz, no matter what the tasters say.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Mind
  • Matter
  • Wine

• Racism is about education. Racism is ignorance.

  

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley
  • Education
  • Ignorance
  • Racism

• When in many dissections, carried out as opportunity offered upon living animals, I first addressed my mind to seeing how I could discover the function and offices of the heart's movement in animals through the use of my own eyes instead of through the books and writings of others, I kept finding the matter so truly hard and beset with difficulties that I all but thought, with Fracastoro, that the heart's movement had been understood by God alone.

  

  William Harvey
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Book

• Our desires attract supporting reasons as a magnet the iron fillings.

  

  William Macneile Dixon
  • Desires
  • Attract
  • Fillings