Edwin A. Locke Quotes

Modern man, Homo sapiens sapiens, dates back about 200,000 years and is the only surviving hominid species.

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• Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Business
  • Success
  • Achieve

• My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population.

  

  Satyajit Ray
  • Film
  • Audience
  • Educated

• All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position in the labor movement.

  

  Rose Schneiderman
  • Real
  • Progress
  • Movement

• Fantasy involves that which general opinion regards as impossible; science fiction involves that which general opinion regards as possible under the right circumstances. This is in essence a judgment call, since what is possible and what is not cannot be objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the reader.

  

  Daryl Gregory
  • Belief
  • Impossible
  • Judgment

• I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?

  

  Ice Cube
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Know

• The first sentence of a book is a promise.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Book
  • Promise
  • First

• Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you.

  

  Hal Linden
  • Play
  • Learning
  • Difficult

• Even though I hate acting, I love doing videos for my songs.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Hate
  • Songs
  • Videos

• Music has always been profoundly important to me.

  

  Richard McCabe
  • Important

• I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. But I have to be nice. I don't think I have irony. A sense of humour, yes, but not irony.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • Vulnerable
  • Irony
  • Humour

• Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.

  

  Elizabeth Edwards
  • Reality
  • Fight
  • Scream

• Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Surviving

• When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact...that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit, which stands in glaring contrast to his scientific and technological abundance; We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the Earth as brothers and sisters.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Learned
  • Suffers
  • Modern Man

• When you start playing tennis, you don't imagine there's a whole bureaucracy behind the tournaments and all of that. You just think about winning the cups.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Think
  • Winning
  • Start

• I learned at an early age that what we were doing in the choir was just as important as the preacher. It was a ministry in itself. We could stir the pot, you know?

  

  D'Angelo
  • Important
  • Age
  • Doing

• Modern man, Homo sapiens sapiens, dates back about 200,000 years and is the only surviving hominid species.

  

  Edwin A. Locke
  • Surviving
  • Homo Sapiens
  • Modern Man