Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett Quotes

Worrying about where to begin puts you in a fair way to waste your life worrying, without getting noticeably closer to beginning.

Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

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• I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Drummer
  • Set
  • Bedroom

• The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Great
  • Reality
  • Culture

• The long term sustainable growth in job creation comes from the private sector. It is important that the Obama administration partner with the private sector and come up with the best possible ideas for creating jobs.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Up
  • Important
  • Long

• I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Men
  • Women
  • Thought

• I don't expect anybody to know who I am.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Know
  • Expect

• I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • People
  • Law
  • Wish

• Lenin is an artist who has worked men, as other artists have worked marble or metals. But men are harder than stone and less malleable than iron. There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Men

• It must afford no small pleasure to a benevolent mind in the midst of a war, which daily makes so much havoc with the human species, to reflect, that the small-pox which once proved equally fatal to thousands, has been checked in its career, and in a great degree subdued by the practice of Inoculation.

  

  Benjamin Rush
  • Great
  • Mind
  • War

• I'm still fighting really hard to get any role I get. If it's comedy, I go for the laughs. And if it's drama, I try to tell the truth, and try to play the real stakes of whatever scenario the character's in.

  

  Chris Pratt
  • Real
  • Character
  • Truth

• Your company is a product. Who are its customers? Your employees, who use it to do their jobs.

  

  Jason Fried

• Nobody can dare me to do anything that I don't come up with on my own.

  

  Corey Taylor Stone Sour
  • Up

• Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

  

  Ella Fitzgerald
  • Trying
  • Inspiration
  • Give Up

• A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.

  

  Jane Pauley

• Hate sells.

  

  Mario Cuomo
  • Hate

• Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow.

  

  Adelbert von Chamisso
  • Soul
  • Shadow

• Let me be clear, Mr. President, mistakes have been made in Iraq. And this operation has been far from perfect as evidenced by the fact that Zarqawi and other terrorists continue to wreak havoc throughout Iraq.

  

  Elizabeth Dole
  • Perfect

• Democrats and Republicans agree on most of a unified, politically viable, and workable immigration reform package. Both parties agree that border security is a key part of any strategy.

  

  Luis Gutierrez
  • Immigration

• In the public debate, while commentators and critics have targeted immigrants with blame and bullying, our nation's immigrants have simply kept on working, kept on contributing, and kept on hoping for a solution.

  

  Luis Gutierrez
  • Bullying

• If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Time
  • Think
  • Period

• My grandma passed away from cancer, and actually, when I was 18, I had an experience with melanoma – it's in the family. I had that experience where everything comes into perspective. It's the weirdest thing, 'cause you're like, 'It will never happen to me,' and when it does, it's like, 'OK, wow.'

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Family
  • Experience
  • Me

• I still love old-school hip-hop, but there hasn't been a lot that I've taken from the new stuff.

  

  Robert James Ritchi
  • School
  • Taken

• My mother endlessly told me I was too fat, that I wasn't a patch on my sister. It wasn't much fun growing up with her and her almost irrational social climbing in that huge house of my dull stepfather Hughdie Auchincloss in Washington.

  

  Lee Radziwill
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Mother

• A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

  

  Philip Sidney
  • True
  • Beginning

• Worrying about where to begin puts you in a fair way to waste your life worrying, without getting noticeably closer to beginning.

  

  Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett
  • Beginning
  • Worrying
  • Waste Of Life