Edmund Blair Bolles Quotes

Keep this point clear: central to discovering an experience's perceptual meaning is a recognition of its identity and its individuality.

Edmund Blair Bolles

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• My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Power
  • Husband
  • Wedding

• What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Up
  • Now
  • Bigger

• I recently read an article on how I was dropped from a film because I couldn't dance! It was so ridiculous that I decided to shut up about it. Let people say what they want to. It's such a waste of time.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Time
  • Music
  • Night

• In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • Well
  • Snake
  • Worm

• I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Acting
  • Place
  • Opera

• While I am not saying Facebook cannot be a wonderland for marketers, I am still waiting to see the proof of it, and so should every reporter.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Facebook
  • Reporter
  • Wonderland

• Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.

  

  Dan Millman
  • God
  • Money
  • Energy

• You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Life
  • Live
  • Freedom

• My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Art
  • She
  • Mother

• People want to think that staying in shape costs a lot of money. They couldn't be more wrong. It doesn't cost anything to walk. And it's probably a lot cheaper to go to the corner store and buy vegetables than take a family out for fast food.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • People
  • Family
  • Money

• God has blessed me with an unbelievable talent, with fast feet, fast hands, unbelievable defense and a very, very sharp mind. So I'm thankful for that.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • God
  • Mind
  • Blessed

• There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The only person you can occupy is yourself. That is why the only person who can change you for the better is you. Without your decision to change and your commitment to change, you will not change.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Why
  • Change
  • Decision

• I always had this put-together family, and I always identified as the outsider. And that's a position where I feel most comfortable, and yet I feel an incredible longing to belong. That is really a strong feeling from my childhood - a desire to be part of a group.

  

  Lily King
  • Family
  • Together
  • Strong

• Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Songwriting

• Capitalism under democracy has a further advantage: its enemies, even when it is attacked, are scattered and weak, and it is usually easily able to array one half of them against the other half, and thus dispose of both.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Democracy
  • Enemy
  • Democracies Have

• The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • America
  • Citizenship

• Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Mind
  • Done
  • Said

• There are a lot of ideas I have that I think would be very marketable and commercial, but they're not as compelling to me as the ones that are unmarketable, uncommercial, and unprofitable.

  

  Todd Solondz
  • Ideas
  • Compelling

• I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning and consequence in the smallest details of a day.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Life
  • Meaning
  • Consequence

• Women inspire me. Women in the airports, around the country in different cities, destinations around the world, inspire me with the way they express their individuality. I love watching women and discovering all the ways each person uses a color, pattern, a style, even a lipstick color. I'm a people watcher.

  

  Camila Alves
  • World
  • Women
  • Style

• Keep this point clear: central to discovering an experience's perceptual meaning is a recognition of its identity and its individuality.

  

  Edmund Blair Bolles
  • Meaning
  • Recognition
  • Individuality