Danilo Dolci Quotes

It's important to know that words don't move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains.

Danilo Dolci

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• Slack users I know, including me, love many things about the service. As the company likes to brag, it's fast, it's transparent, and it's great for brainstorming.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Great
  • Love
  • Service

• To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

  

  Irving Wallace
  • Easy
  • Self
  • Conformity

• I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Hope
  • Small
  • Movies

• I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Music
  • Different
  • Football

• Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Time
  • Acting
  • Misery

• I don't know that Islam has ever been a subject of anything that I've written. I think Muslims have often been, but those are two very different things.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Different
  • Think
  • Know

• Skateboarding was the only thing I was ever good at. Growing up, I was doing that from, like, dusk till dawn.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Up
  • Good
  • Growing

• You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

  

  Oskar Werner
  • Movies
  • Married
  • Mistress

• I totally consider Fishbowl my full time job - I have to say I freaking love doing this blog. I just enjoy the medium so much; I love the fact that it requires me to read amazing stuff by hilarious and talented people and forces me to know what's going on in the world.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• I check all my props, everything. Acting is something I love. I have done it since I was 13 but it had completely taken over my life absolutely.

  

  Barbara Windsor
  • Life
  • Love
  • Done

• Put Mickelson and Toms out there. You know, they had the morning off. They rested. Knowing them and the competitors that they are, they are probably a little angry that they weren't out there in the morning.

  

  Hal Sutton
  • Know
  • Morning
  • Angry

• I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• What I do onstage, there's maybe .0001 percent of the population that acts like that. I talk like that because it makes me laugh, and because I know a couple of people that talk like that. They're really that Southern. And they do funny things. I love 'em; they're awesome. They're good people.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • People
  • Funny
  • Know

• My philosophy is to not be scared of anyone. If I play well, great; if I don't, I learn from the match and move on.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Great
  • Learn
  • Philosophy

• Dude, everybody wants to be Andre 3000. He's got abs for days. How does that guy get so ripped?

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Guy
  • Wants
  • Got

• I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor'. And she said, 'Maybe not that'.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • She
  • Mom
  • Acting

• You actually can be passionate about things like making rational decisions based on a thorough airing of the facts, a reasonable and informed debate, a respect for the Constitution that includes, um, knowing about it.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Respect
  • Decisions
  • Debate

• It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control.

  

  Alice Hamilton
  • Work
  • Control
  • Present

• If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds.

  

  W. Daniel Hillis
  • Day
  • Technology
  • Moving

• We shall act with good intentions, but at times we will be wrong. When we are, let us admit it and try to right the situation.

  

  Joe Paterno
  • Good

• There's steps that I've taken already, and each week, talking with the sports psychologist on a routine basis and working with the different programs that we're going through. This is all stuff that you can say you're going to make a difference, but I'm putting it into action.

  

  Kurt Busch
  • Different
  • Action
  • Taken

• Makeup is part of my daily routine. It's the time in my mornings when I can concentrate on me, and me alone. Giving yourself the kind of attention is so important - and is something that is definitely glossed over by to many women

  

  Kat Von D
  • Important
  • Giving
  • Attention

• It's important to know that words don't move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains.

  

  Danilo Dolci
  • Work
  • Important
  • Action