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

• I did feel pressure to look a certain way on 'Hollyoaks.' But I just had to stay strong and not let myself get into a state of mind that isn't healthy.

  

  Hannah Tointon
  • Mind
  • Strong
  • Myself

• My subject matter was a genuine sort of experience that came out of my life, particularly the American world in which I was privileged to be . . . . I would really think of the bakery counters, of the way the counter was lit, where the pies were placed, but I wanted just a piece of the experience. From when I worked in restaurants . . . [it was] always poetic to me.

  

  Wayne Thiebaud
  • Life
  • World
  • Thinking

• There is never a right or wrong time to have kids; it happens for whatever reason, but you can have this paranoia: 'will I be able to do this, I'm not sure if I'm ready to have kids?'

  

  Danny Dyer
  • Time
  • Kids

• The one thing I don't consume during 'Today' - which surprises many people - is coffee. I find that a lot of water helps wake me up, without the buzz. I love coffee, but usually reserve a double espresso as an afternoon pick-me-up before settling in to do the weekend 'Nightly News.'

  

  Lester Holt
  • People
  • Up
  • Today

• When I started the 'Broken Empire' trilogy, I thought it was a short story, and I didn't know the beginning, middle, or end of even that.

  

  Mark Lawrence
  • Beginning
  • Broken

• 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