William George Jordan Quotes

Everything that is great in life is the product of slow growth; the newer, and greater, and higher, and nobler the work, the slower is its growth, the surer is its lasting success. Mushrooms attain their full power in a night; oaks require decades. A fad lives its life in a few weeks; a philosophy lives through generations and centuries.

William George Jordan

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• I grew up hiking and horseback riding in Tennessee, so I love being outside. I will joyfully run 12 miles, but I'm not very good at boot camps. When they start yelling, I start laughing.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Good
  • Laughing
  • Grew

• I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Drama
  • Involved
  • Escape

• I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Think
  • Myself
  • English

• My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Thought

• I was always telling everyone, I want to be a broadcaster. They'd say, What, are you crazy? What, you're going to be Arthur Godfrey?

  

  Larry King
  • Want
  • Crazy
  • Always

• My grandma told me never, ever, ever to use soap on my face. But I do use lotion.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Me
  • Never
  • Face

• My first big role was when I was 17 and I got the part playing Maria in 'West Side Story' in my school production.

  

  Olivia Cooke
  • School
  • Story
  • First

• My quality of life here in Quebec City is extraordinary.

  

  Patrick Roy
  • Life
  • City
  • Quality

• I love the idea that I planned my career. I did not. It started out by getting invitations from artists that I really love and respect, to share a stage... I've been very lucky in that I haven't had to create a five-year plan. It's evolved.

  

  M. Ward
  • Love
  • Career
  • Respect

• Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Person
  • Dust

• Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • Want
  • Culture
  • Popular

• I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Writing
  • Know
  • Hip Hop

• I said that when I establish myself as an artist that can do pretty much anything I want to do in music, I'm going to make a country album.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Country
  • Pretty

• People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Work
  • Family

• You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • People
  • Think
  • Today

• Our elders are always optimistic in their views of the present, pessimistic in their views of the future; youth is pessimistic toward the present and gloriously hopeful for the future.  And it is this hope which is the lever of progress-one might say, the only lever of progress.

  

  Randolph Bourne
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Present

• What is a strain is being forced into the lobster pot of good behaviour while being forced to sing its praises.

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • Good

• Why has everything got to be about feelings these days? In the old days, no one knew what anyone was feeling and, what's more, they weren't expected to.

  

  Arabella Weir
  • Why
  • Feeling

• I won't ever put myself in a bad position so that people can say bad things about me. I make smart decisions, and my friends and my family, they are all there for the right reason.

  

  Derrick Rose
  • People
  • Family
  • Friends

• It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting.

  

  Steve Buscemi
  • Acting
  • Year
  • High School

• For whatever trauma came with service in tough circumstances, we should take what we learned - take our post-traumatic growth - and, like past generations coming home, bring our sharpened strengths to bear, bring our attitude of gratitude to bear.

  

  James Mattis
  • Home
  • Past
  • Growth

• Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.

  

  Plato
  • Philosophy
  • Conversant
  • Meddles

• The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Remarkable

• Everything that is great in life is the product of slow growth; the newer, and greater, and higher, and nobler the work, the slower is its growth, the surer is its lasting success. Mushrooms attain their full power in a night; oaks require decades. A fad lives its life in a few weeks; a philosophy lives through generations and centuries.

  

  William George Jordan
  • Growth
  • Philosophy
  • Generations