Eugene Grace Quotes

If I were to prescribe one process in the training of men which is fundamental to success in any direction, it would be thoroughgoing training in the habit of accurate observation. It is a habit which every one of us should be seeking ever more to perfect.

Eugene Grace

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• I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • America
  • Man

• Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Country
  • American

• I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Me
  • Mirror
  • Perception

• A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Dark
  • Poem
  • Redeem

• At a certain point in your career - I mean, part of the answer is a personal answer, which is that at a certain point in your career, it becomes more satisfying to help entrepreneurs than to be one.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Help
  • Career
  • Mean

• The only certainty we have is that those who are certain of a way to arrive at worldly salvation, are committed enough to organize around this, and seek power to enforce it, will invariably descend into a bloody totalitarian fascism.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Power
  • Way
  • Enough

• When my car broke down in L.A., nobody stopped. They just kept whizzing by.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Car
  • Down
  • Nobody

• I'm a girls' girl. I have guy friends, but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them, and they'll end up in a slideshow of people I've apparently dated on the Internet.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• My focus is on my constituents.

  

  Randy Hultgren
  • Focus
  • Constituents

• Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Wisdom
  • Never
  • Late

• He always has an alibi, and one or two to spare:At whatever time the deed took place-Macavity wasn't there.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Time

• The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Power
  • Wisdom
  • Successful

• I don't think I'm all that interesting. I mean, I'm a guy who does a morning show and goes to bed at 9:00 every night. I mean, I don't have a lot in my life that's really fascinated or fodder for tabloids.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Life
  • Guy
  • Night

• I'm a curious person, and I always like to test new waters, and I've always jumped into the cold water and then started to think about how to swim.

  

  Jochen Zeitz
  • Water
  • Cold

• I'm playing first base and pitching and hitting. I feel like I'm almost better than I've ever been. It's like, 'You're going to walk away like this?'

  

  Jennie Finch

• I always loved writing, but never considered that I could do it professionally.

  

  James L. Brooks
  • Writing

• New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Work
  • Truth
  • Earth

• Because you know, I’m your best friend, but you’re just not that badass, man.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Man
  • Friend
  • Badass

• My father didn't push me.

  

  William Clay Ford, Jr.
  • Father
  • Push

• In March 1943, my parents, four-year-old sister and I were interned with other foreign civilians at Lunghua camp, a former teacher training college outside Shanghai, where we remained until the end of August 1945.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Parents
  • College
  • Teacher

• Action is the foundation of all success.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Success
  • Action
  • Foundation

• He had gone to church and brought back this little flame and had nowhere to put it on the dark damp walls of the apartment, so it had flickered and gone out. And he realised that he wouldn't always be able to produce this flame.

  

  John Updike
  • Church
  • Dark

• If I were to prescribe one process in the training of men which is fundamental to success in any direction, it would be thoroughgoing training in the habit of accurate observation. It is a habit which every one of us should be seeking ever more to perfect.

  

  Eugene Grace
  • Success
  • Training
  • Habit