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

• 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

• Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the midst of their tour where they're really productive.

  

  James Stockdale
  • Time

• My dad is an English teacher, and my mom is a textiles artist. My parents made my sisters and me feel that if we wanted to pursue something creative, it could be done. They've always been supportive of everything from the beginning.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Done
  • Parents
  • Dad

• I come up with a blurb at the beginning, but the book will always be completely different by the time it's finished. They say, 'Where's the book you were going to write?' And I say, 'Forget about it. It doesn't exist.'

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Up
  • Time
  • Different

• You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • 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