Ernest Vincent Wright Quotes

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

Ernest Vincent Wright

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• Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Business
  • Team
  • Impact

• If you seek my help and guidance, I will immediately give it to you.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Help
  • You
  • Guidance

• 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

• Here's a bunch of people practising a new set of behavioural norms. Apparently it didn't work because a lot of them got sick. That's the conclusion. You don't necessarily know why it happened. But you start there.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• When the United States media is paying attention, that's when you're really representing your country.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Country
  • Attention
  • Media

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

  

  Kate Smith
  • Political
  • Performance

• So we are not doing the traditional album, tour, album, tour, album, tour anymore. We're going to tour when we want to, regardless of whether we've got a record out.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Want
  • Doing
  • Traditional

• 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

• There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure.

  

  Douglas Wilson
  • Guilty

• 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

• I generally get challenged; I haven't been typecast, which is really, really, nice. It's not something that every actor gets, really. It's luxury. Most actors are capable of it, but they aren't afforded the opportunity to express their variety.

  

  James McAvoy
  • Opportunity
  • Nice

• I don't try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers. Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I don't attack innocent people.

  

  Jessica White
  • People
  • Innocent

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

  

  Ernest Vincent Wright
  • Work
  • Joy
  • Mankind