Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes

In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.

Edwin Percy Whipple

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• I admit that the direct model has done a lot for Dell. That's the only thing the company has ever really accomplished.

  

  Eckhard Pfeiffer
  • Done
  • Model
  • Company

• I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Song

• One of the trickiest things about 'Game of Thrones' is just seeding those first couple of episodes with that basic information that people need to know, both about the world and the ground rules of the world, and the relationships between the characters, as far as who means what to whom and why.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Future
  • Past
  • Judging

• I go out, but not too much. When I'm on tour, I just write a lot of music and sleep.

  

  Wale
  • Music
  • Sleep
  • Too Much

• At some point in our life, each of us is very likely to be a care getter or a care giver or both.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Life

• Any woman that you're in love with or that loves you is going to command a certain amount of, you know, energy. It's actually easier to focus, in some ways.

  

  Kanye West
  • Energy
  • Focus

• If you eat a lot of starchy foods, introduce a vegetable once a week, then twice a week, and then three times a week. Slowly fill your diet with new flavors. By the time you're ready to let go of whatever it is you want to let go of, you've got a full menu.

  

  Lisa Edelstein
  • Time
  • Diet
  • Foods

• Do not be content with the old anointing. It is essential to a more holy and happy life...that you seek to be anointed with new oil. Do not be satisfied with past experiences. [...] Seek to have a new revelation of Christ to your soul. Seek the renewed application of His precious blood to your conscience. Oh, seek the fresh oil!

  

  Octavius Winslow
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Soul

• Sex without love is like a goddamn business transaction. And sometimes both parties feel as if they got a good deal, but that doesn't make it any less so.

  

  Emma Bull
  • Love
  • Feel
  • Sex

• All children are love children, he said, but only the best ones are ever called that.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Children
  • Said
  • Loved

• I wanted to do something different. Therefore, the first person I thought would have been too exclusionary. It would have said me, me, me, me, me. I, I, I, I, I. As if I were pushing away my experiences from the experiences of others. Because basically what I was trying to do was show our commonality. I mean to say, in the very ordinariness of what I recount I think perhaps the reader will find resonances with his or her own life.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• Doubt is one of the main paths on the highway to failure.

  

  Rick Pitino
  • Failure
  • Doubt
  • Main Paths

• All things are in fate, yet all things are not decreed by fate.

  

  Plato
  • Fate
  • All Things
  • Decreed

• The scientist finds his reward in what Henri Poincare calls the joy of comprehension, and not in the possibility of application to which any discovery may lead.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Joy
  • Discovery
  • Scientist

• In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.

  

  Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Glory
  • Activity
  • Reward