David House Quotes

People overestimate what they can accomplish in the near term and underestimate what they can accomplish in the long term.

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• There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • Like
  • Year
  • Leak

• There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Kindness

• We saw - we conducted the experiment. I mean, it's been done. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. We saw Apple without Steve Jobs. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. Now, we're gonna see Apple without Steve Jobs.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Done
  • See
  • Apple

• A lot of my friends they call me 'the therapist'. They come to me looking for advice. I must be doing something right because they keep coming back. But I'm not very good at kind of looking into my own world and trying to pick apart what is really wrong and fix those things. I like to kind of shy away from certain issues and turn away.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • World
  • Good
  • Trying

• Acts of one-sided diplomacy on the part of the Bush administration.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • Administration
  • Diplomacy
  • Bush

• I will do nothing to superinduce sleep by putting myself at ease, or making myself more comfortable; if, however, in spite of my resistance I yield to my infirmity, then I deserve to be laughed at, and accept as punishment the mortification I feel.

  

  S. C. Gwynne
  • Myself
  • Sleep
  • Accept

• It is not an easy thing to be a woman and love with the whole heart: which men do not understand -- having many loves, and delighting in danger and war.

  

  Mary Margaret ('Mollie') Kaye
  • Men
  • Heart
  • War

• Leadership isn't just legislation, that it's a matter of persuading people and giving them confidence, and bringing them together and setting a tone.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Together
  • Giving

• Unconditional acceptance of others is the key to happy relationships.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Happy
  • Happiness
  • Acceptance

• The best thing is looking back and realizing how good life is. If you don't take the time to think about it and analyze it, you'll never realize all the dots that are connected.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• Hatred will never be erased! The only thing you can do... is erase the ones you hate. - Hakuryuu

  

  Ohtaka Shinobu
  • Hate

• I started just concentrating on songwriting when I was abut 20; I'd been in rock bands six or seven years, kinda got that out of my system, I said, "ok, you ain't gonna be a rock star, you don't look like a rock star, it probably ain't gonna happen. So what you should do is write songs and maybe other people will do your songs."

  

  Billy Joel
  • People
  • Rock
  • Star

• Casanova, he had no money and no power, and according to some, he even was cute. But he had talent to live, and some literature talent. I love how he invented himself.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Live
  • Money
  • Power

• In the free market, a man born into wealth or who has otherwise acquired great riches can lose his fortune depending on how he chooses to behave. Conversely, a man born into poverty or who has lost wealth once obtained can acquire a fortune, depending, again, on how he chooses to behave.

  

  Mark Levin
  • Great
  • Men
  • Free

• Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • War
  • Peace
  • Teaching

• I'm certainly no bohemian hippie, and I do love luxury.

  

  Johnny McDaid Snow Patrol
  • Luxury
  • Hippie
  • Bohemian

• He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself.

  

  George Eliot
  • Nature
  • Opinions
  • Great Deal

• People overestimate what they can accomplish in the near term and underestimate what they can accomplish in the long term.

  

  David House
  • Term
  • Accomplish
  • Underestimate