George Albert Wells Quotes

People who cannot think in an orderly way are apt to suppose themselves more imaginative than others.

George Albert Wells

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• By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.

  

  Zach Woods
  • School
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• We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Music
  • Book
  • Silence

• It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

  

  Garet Garrett
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• I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
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• I don't know the right way to retire.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Way
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• I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
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  • Mean
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• World's children cannot wait any longer. While international community debates and issues recommendations, statements and fine speeches, world's children - marginalised, socially excluded, poor and vulnerable - continue to suffer.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • World
  • Children
  • Community

• I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • World
  • Good
  • Writing

• Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Life
  • Different
  • Nature

• I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about; I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully!

  

  Danica McKellar
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Job
  • Cancer
  • Mission

• MusiCares was really good to me. I can't say enough how MusiCares helps other people. They really, really helped me. They have the greatest groups and support for musicians in recovery.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • Good
  • Support

• You tax Mexico? The president of the United States is going to tax Mexico to get a wall for the United States of America? I'm pointing out the absurdity of a lot of these comments.

  

  Dana Perino
  • America
  • You
  • Wall

• When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Think
  • Tree
  • Upset

• We all have to make choices in life.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Life
  • Choices
  • Make

• I think very few people still understand the distinction between CEOs on Wall Street and the hedge-fund billionaires operating separately.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Think
  • Wall

• I think that, at the end of the day, I'm drawn to a certain level of ambiguous storytelling that requires hard thought and work in the same way that the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle does: Sometimes you just want to put it down or throw it out the window, but there's a real rewarding sense if you feel like you've cracked it.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Work
  • Real
  • Day

• Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is read to you.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Think
  • You
  • Bible

• Everyone is trying to reach for their own stars, and all of those stars aren’t light-years away. They are as close as our job, our family, our children, our next-door neighbors and our good friends.

  

  Alan Bean
  • Good
  • Children
  • Trying

• VisiCalc and WordPerfect were the killer apps of their day, but Google and Facebook make them look small in comparison.

  

  Astro Teller
  • Small

• The main point of any spiritual practice is to step out of the bureaucracy of ego. This means stepping out of ego's constant desire for a higher, more spiritual, more transcendental version of knowledge, religion, virtue, judgment, comfort, or whatever it is that the particular ego is seeking. One must step out of spiritual materialism.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Knowledge
  • Desire
  • Spiritual

• That's the most important thing to me - that if I'm gonna spend however long it takes to make a movie, give up 14 hours a day for however many weeks or months, then it's very important for me to know that I'm working with people who I respect and enjoy and that we're going for something together.

  

  Brad Pitt
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• The feedback I get is that my books are honest. I don't sugar-coat anything. Life is really hard.

  

  Laurie Halse Anderson
  • Life

• People who cannot think in an orderly way are apt to suppose themselves more imaginative than others.

  

  George Albert Wells
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Imaginative