William Edward Hartpole Lecky Quotes

Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and to form the tastes which are most productive of happiness in life.

William Edward Hartpole Lecky

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• Productive
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• During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Town

• You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Up
  • Different
  • Learn

• Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Childhood

• I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Away
  • Seem
  • Resolutions

• No one in my family wrote. And there was no real introduction. I suppose I somehow blundered into it when I was about six or seven years old. I was asked what present I would like, and, without knowing why, I responded that I would like a journal. It was a beautiful journal - so beautiful that I didn't want to sully it.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Real
  • Family
  • Why

• There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Animal
  • Human
  • Nothing

• There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don't believe in wasting them throwing to first base.

  

  Eddie Plank
  • Believe
  • First
  • Old

• I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Education
  • Football
  • Fight

• That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Good
  • Way
  • Heroic

• There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Children
  • Love
  • Grandfather

• Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not do the same. Oedipus' psychology was deduced by Aeschylus or Freud, but the character is simply there, fixed in a pure and terribly disquieting state.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Character
  • Psychology
  • Heroes

• Blacks have had to learn to protect themselves by being cynical but not cynical enough to slam the door on potential opportunities. We go through life walking a tightrope to prevent too much disillusionment.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Life
  • Door
  • Walking

• As an American Jew who loves Israel, I cannot support John McCain. He cannot provide what Israel needs most - a respected, credible, morally strong America.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • American
  • America
  • Strong

• I'm at the right age to work with dead people, but you have to be smart to be a CSI.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Work
  • Age

• Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex. As long as combat was desirable as the source of honor and glory, the knight had no wish to share it with the commoner, even for the sake of success.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Long
  • Success
  • Wish

• He said that humanity in the main was crass, stupid, boorish and vulgar, and that I could learn at least this much from you.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Humanity
  • Stupid

• Facebook is not an unstoppable juggernaut. There are a lot of other things people can do on the web.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • People

• I think one of the geniuses of Bound and The Matrix and Memento is the complete collaboration of the effort. There were no rotten apples.

  

  Joe Pantoliano
  • Effort
  • Collaboration
  • Matrix

• By learning about my body and making small, subtle changes, I find out what I enjoy and what is effective. I'm always finessing: adjusting my diet and my workouts. You have to figure out which exercises are fun and interesting and stimulate your brain - or else you'll never keep at them.

  

  Lisa Edelstein
  • Fun
  • Interesting
  • Small

• Most sound work in films is done very quickly, and at the end of the schedule where it's just jammed together and you always wish that you had more sympathy.

  

  Ben Burtt
  • Film
  • Sound
  • Sympathy

• Boxing brought me money and fame, but it never brought me no happiness.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Happiness
  • Fame
  • Boxing

• Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you, as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox. Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Mind
  • Suffering
  • Happiness

• Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and to form the tastes which are most productive of happiness in life.

  

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky
  • Happiness
  • Habit
  • Productive