William Macneile Dixon Quotes

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

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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

• We must develop a federal program of public works, retraining, and jobs for all - so that none, white or black, will have cause to feel threatened . . . There is nothing except shortsightedness to prevent us from guaranteeing an annual minimum and livable income for every American family.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Develop
  • American Family
  • Federal Program

• Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Stupidity
  • Russia
  • Saints

• To me, our signature song was 'Rosanna.' That was the ultimate Toto track, where everybody had a chance to shine.

  

  Steve Lukather Toto
  • Song
  • Signature
  • Rosanna

• You only have to believe that you can succeed, that you can be whatever your heart desires, be willing to work for it, and you can have it.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Heart

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

  

  William Macneile Dixon
  • Desires
  • Attract
  • Fillings