Cynthia Lord Quotes

Not everything worth keeping has to be useful.

Cynthia Lord

• To Be
• Worth
• Useful
• Not Everything

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• It's not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Important
  • Positive
  • Negative

• Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • You
  • Know

• I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Funny
  • Me
  • Hard

• While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • Business
  • Energy
  • Focus

• I've always written about heroes and wondered who they are.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Always
  • About
  • Heroes

• You always read stories of people going out to California and making it as an actor with, like, two dollars, so I figured I'd try it.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • California
  • Try

• To be honest, I grew up with Alan Menken's music.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Up
  • Music
  • Honest

• Truthfully, the person with whom I identified most in Heinlein's early works was Rhysling in 'The Green Hills of Earth.'

  

  Pamela Dean
  • Earth
  • Green
  • Most

• I am thrilled to return as Honorary Captain of the GREEKs for HBCUs Team. I reflect fondly on my days at Florida A&M University, and how visible and active all of the sororities and fraternities were. Membership in Black Greek letter organizations on college campuses is preparation for a lifetime of service.

  

  T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
  • Black
  • Team
  • College

• As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think the public can feel confident that impartiality and independence are just as important to me as they have been to previous incumbents.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • Important
  • Long
  • Political

• In the cotton States, after the war...the Jew came down in force, set up shop on the plantation, supplied all the negro's wants on credit, and at the end of the season was proprietor of the negro's share of the present crop and of part of his share of the next one. Before long, the whites detested the Jew, and it is doubtful if the negro loved him.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Up
  • Long
  • War

• The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.

  

  Ben Harper
  • American
  • Discover
  • American Music

• Spirit over mind. Mind over matter. It's that simple

  

  Sahndra Fon Dufe
  • Mind
  • Simple
  • Matter

• The Hebrew language... is the only glue which holds together our scattered bones. It also holds together the rings in the chain of time.... It binds us to those who built pyramids, to those who shed their blood on the ramparts of Jerusalem, and to those who, at the burning stakes, cried Shema Yisrael!

  

  I. L. Peretz
  • Time
  • Together
  • Blood

• The book of love has music in it In fact that's where music comes from Some of it is just transcendental Some of it is just really dumb

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Music
  • Book
  • Dumb

• Yoga makes my day better as I am less likely to fall victim to my otherwise foolish & forgetful mind.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Mind
  • Fall
  • Yoga

• Withholding things in a story is no good if you aren't building to something substantial. It becomes foreplay without the main event, and no one wants that.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Good

• Too often, we don't give people the opportunity to fill in the blanks.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Opportunity
  • Blanks

• To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if it were being gradually reabsorbed. And it did indeed cause him some difficulty about the fit of his satin stocks, for which chins were at that time useful.

  

  George Eliot
  • Useful
  • Vanishing
  • Satin

• To Armenians, half Armenians, quarter Armenians, and one-eight Armenians. Sixteen and thirty-second Armenians, and other winners, are likelier to be happy with a useful book

  

  Anne Conway
  • Book
  • Useful
  • Winners

• I arrived in the U.S.A. in 1935, to San Francisco. I got the boat from China, and I didn't even speak English. I could read a little, perhaps write a little, but that was all. It was a 17-day journey, and I learnt to speak English from the stewards.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • English
  • Journey
  • Speak

• Not everything worth keeping has to be useful.

  

  Cynthia Lord
  • To Be
  • Worth
  • Useful