Ernest Vincent Wright Quotes

For mankind knows hardly a joy which will surpass that of approval of his work.

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• Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Business
  • Team
  • Impact

• Your mind is what makes everything else work.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Everything

• I always have bananas with me for energy.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Energy
  • Always
  • Bananas

• The journey matters as much as the goal.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Goal
  • Journey
  • Matters

• I've never seen anything so abhorrent in my life as Harry Reid. He's an equal opportunity basher. He goes after everybody, and I think it has been so, frankly, disgusting.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • My Life

• I thought, I need to reinvent myself. I want every day of life to be wonderful, fascinating, interesting, creative. And what am I gonna do to make that happen?

  

  Karen Allen
  • Life
  • Interesting
  • Day

• How ridiculous I was as a Marionette! And how happy I am, now that I have become a real boy!

  

  Carlo Collodi
  • Happy
  • Boy
  • Marionette

• I am disappointed that Senator Ayotte has voted repeatedly for deep cuts in Pell Grants that would make college more expensive for thousands of New Hampshire students and voted against allowing young people to refinance their student loans.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • College
  • Student
  • Grants

• An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Political
  • Performance

• When we talk about kids earning commission for chores, we always have at least one parent who argues that children should do chores because they are part of the family. I agree, but if you don't involve money in a few chores, you lose the teachable moments in the work, spend, save, and give principles.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • Work
  • Children
  • Family

• I saw the Sex Pistols, and they were terrible.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
  • Sex

• After all these years, I'm starting to learn what a good director does, and I know what a good one does with actors: help us navigate finer instincts, help us when we're wrong, encourage us when things are great.

  

  Brian Geraghty
  • Good
  • Great
  • Help

• I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing.

  

  Derek Bailey

• The problem with cosmetic surgery is that people who have it can only see how they look in the mirror. They don't realise how weird they look from other angles. I particularly hate the injections that puff out the face, which are hideous.

  

  Jerry Hall
  • People
  • Hate
  • Weird

• I liked the name Frederick Bickel and I wish now I had left it as it was. After all, Theodore Bikel, whose name was similar though spelled differently, didn't change his, and he did all right.

  

  Fredric March
  • Wish

• Someday I will get married, and I should be able to watch my films with my children, mother-in-law, and father-in-law.

  

  Keerthy Suresh
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Father

• Sometimes I think we live in a world where, even when things are good, people always feel unsatisfied with wherever they are, so I think first I just want to enjoy being happy where I am now and not let my ambition take away from being in the moment.

  

  Jacob Whitesides
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Policies aimed at reversing globalization will lead only to a decrease in real income as goods become more expensive.

  

  Angus Deaton
  • Real

• I have grown tired of the articulate utterances of men and things. The Mystical in Art, the Mystical in Life, the Mystical in Nature this is what I am looking for. It is absolutely necessary for me to find it somewhere.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Art
  • Nature

• I think there are periods in this country when behavior is abhorrent: McCarthy, Watergate, Bill Clinton. It's just a question of how the checks and balances in the American system work and how leaders stand up to it or don't stand up to it.

  

  Jake Tapper
  • Up
  • Work
  • Country

• One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • Different
  • Me

• My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Life
  • Power
  • House

• Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our government, and their conduct in every particular manifested the sincerity of their declarations.

  

  William Henry Ashley
  • Friendly
  • Sincerity
  • Declaration

• For mankind knows hardly a joy which will surpass that of approval of his work.

  

  Ernest Vincent Wright
  • Work
  • Joy
  • Mankind