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

• But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living.

  

  David Korten

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

  

  Jane Pauley

• Hate sells.

  

  Mario Cuomo
  • Hate

• We compete so hard and that changes the whole ballgame.

  

  Brian Jordan

• 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

• Knight saved it with his back arm

  

  Ian Brown

• I love blue more than any other color. I am inordinately attracted to any blue substance: to minerals like turquoise and lapis lazuli, to sapphires and aquamarines; to cobalt skies and blue-black seas; Moslem tiles - and to a blue flower whether or not it has any other merit.

  

  Eleanor Perenyi
  • I Love
  • Merit
  • Seas

• 'Django' was definitely the beginning of my political side, and I think 'Hateful Eight' is the... logical extension and conclusion of that. I mean, when I say conclusion, I'm not saying I'll never be political again, but, I mean, I think it's like, in a weird way, 'Django' was the question, and 'Hateful Eight' is the answer.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Political
  • Question
  • Beginning

• I think climbing is less a sport and more a hobby, and as such, I think everybody's a beginning climber.

  

  Alex Lowe
  • Beginning

• I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;- "Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!" He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:- "Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!

  

  Bram Stoker
  • Peace
  • Beginning
  • Beside

• 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