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

• 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

• 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

• 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've been married twice, and I can tell you this right now: no one wants their mother in law all up in their business. Especially if you're a woman and you have your own mind.

  

  Kim Hawthorne
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Business

• Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Culture
  • Study

• I don't think there's anything wrong with singing a song and having fun with it.

  

  Joe Nichols
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Singing

• Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.

  

  Cara Castronuova
  • Idea
  • Boxing
  • Ring

• My breadth of football experience, my injury history, and my all-or-nothing goal to become one of the best linebackers in the NFL, combined with all I'd been learning about the game's neurological effects on the brain, convinced me I'd be wise in choosing another career.

  

  Chris Borland
  • Experience
  • History
  • Game

• What's so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you're constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• When my kids are happy, I am happy.

  

  Kris Jenner
  • Kids
  • Happy

• Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.

  

  Plato
  • Death
  • Training
  • Philosophy

• 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