Elizabeth Wein Quotes

She was never so petty. She did not dabble with minnows at the surface when there were thirty-pound salmon swimming deeper down.

Elizabeth Wein

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• Salmon
• Minnows

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• The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Me
  • Ambition
  • Personal

• Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Free
  • Hand

• If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Essence
  • Creature

• I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Together
  • Want
  • Just

• I like the strategy of finding great entrepreneurs early, giving them some money, helping them a little - perhaps not as much as we would a regular core investment.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • Great
  • Money
  • Giving

• The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Find
  • Interest
  • Mystery

• Our life is full of empty space.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • Space
  • Empty

• All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Bad

• People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Life
  • Doing

• Timid salesmen have skinny kids.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Kids
  • Skinny
  • Timid

• O Banner!Not houses of peace are you, nor any nor all of their prosperity; if need be you shall have every one of those houses to destroy them;You thought not to destroy those valuable houses, standing fast, full of comfort, built with money;May they stand fast then? Not an hour, unless you, above them and all, stand fast.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Money
  • May
  • Peace

• This is near enough true bliss.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • True

• The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Soul

• It's hard to get an education when teachers spend 70 percent of their time trying to discipline students.

  

  Nelsan Ellis
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Education

• I'm very into Zodiac signs, so when I meet a fellow Scorpio, I always get really excited.

  

  Kether Donohue

• I've been lucky in the sense that I haven't become famous.

  

  Kevin Rahm
  • Famous

• You know, photo conversations are replacing verbal conversations. I don't know if that's a bad thing. A photo is worth a thousand words.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • Bad
  • Words

• Everything I was told should be my greatest insecurities and weaknesses, everything that I've been labeled - short, nerdy, skinny, weak, impulsive, ugly, tomboy, poor, rebel, loud, freak, crazy - turned out to be my greatest strengths. I didn't become successful in spite of them. I became successful because of them.

  

  AJ Lee
  • Crazy
  • Ugly
  • Rebel

• If you find yourself always playing the villain, or if you find yourself being typecast into a corner where you're not happy then that's probably rather miserable, but if I have been typecast I am quite happy about it.

  

  James Purefoy
  • Happy

• When I was working for Miramax, before Sundance, a videotape of 'The Blair Witch Project' - of the full, completed movie - went to a lot of the buyers. And so we all saw it before the festival, and I passed, a bunch of people passed... Then I watched the movie marching toward success, and was reminded by my bosses what a dope I was.

  

  Jason Blum
  • People
  • Movie
  • Success

• In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.

  

  Zhu Zhu
  • Game
  • Know
  • Pool

• I've enjoyed training again, I've enjoyed pushing myself in the pool and I'll keep on swimming until I feel I cannot get any more out of myself.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Myself
  • Training
  • Pool

• There is but one season of the year when salmon should be served hot at a choice repast; that is in the spring and early summer, and even then it is too satisfying, nut sufficiently delicate. The man who gives salmon during the winter, I care not what sauce he serves with it, does an injury to himself and his guests.

  

  Ward McAllister
  • Summer
  • Spring
  • Choice

• She was never so petty. She did not dabble with minnows at the surface when there were thirty-pound salmon swimming deeper down.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Swimming
  • Salmon
  • Minnows