George Madison Adams Quotes

We should seize every opportunity to give encouragement. Encouragement is oxygen to the soul. The days are always dark enough. There is no need for us to emphasize the fact by spreading further gloom.

George Madison Adams

• Enough
• Leadership
• Encouragement
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• Gloom

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• The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign.

  

  C. C. H. Pounder
  • Different
  • Black
  • You

• I just don't watch a lot of TV.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Just
  • Watch
  • Lot

• Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Small
  • Always
  • Snake

• That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Good
  • Why
  • Door

• Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.

  

  Jack Kornfield
  • Wonder
  • Spiritual
  • Practice

• It is possible in this world to be pretty and funny and successful all at the same time.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Time
  • World
  • Pretty

• My husband makes sacrifices so that I can shine.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Husband
  • I Can
  • Shine

• Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • People
  • Truth
  • Myself

• I don't care if you're a man, if you're a player: If God sends you that one and your heart is in it, you'll work it out.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Work
  • God
  • Heart

• I don't work for Donald Trump. I work with him. I work for the people who sent me up here. He ran on repealing and replacing Obamacare. Those people that put him and me in office expect us to repeal and replace Obamacare.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient whose care I am taking over is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it's only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Care
  • Patient
  • Screen

• I do think that exercise is important, not only to keep you in shape but also for your state of mind. However, I am not fanatical about it.

  

  Donatella Versace
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Exercise

• The opportunity to build new and surprising partnerships to help Microsoft succeed in a mobile-first, cloud-first world is truly exciting, and I look forward to leading these efforts.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • World
  • Help
  • Opportunity

• I would say trust your own judgment and develop your own style that is true in your heart and don't be deterred from that. Just develop that something that's unique to you that you feel you can give. Be true to yourself, trust your own judgment; that's all.

  

  Justin Hayward The Moody Blues
  • Heart
  • True
  • Style

• The Social Security trust fund is in pretty good shape today and we should not embark upon risky, dangerous schemes which will, in fact, undermine Social Security, such as privatization.

  

  Max Baucus
  • Good
  • Today
  • Pretty

• I developed my style by pickin' a lot of cotton, plowin' that ole mule every day. I just got the rhythm, and any rhythm I need I know where it is; I know where to find it.

  

  John Hunter
  • Style

• Most established comic writers have a fixed style or methodology, so what you get on page one of the first issue is about the same for the last page of the series.

  

  Brian Stelfreeze
  • Style

• I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do.

  

  Paul Weller Incognito

• When two, or more men, know of one and the same fact, they are said to be CONSCIOUS of it one to another; which is as much as to know it together.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Men
  • Know
  • Conscious

• We cannot hope, then, in this generation, or for several generations, that the mass of the whites can be brought to assume that close sympathetic and self-sacrificing leadership of the blacks which their present situation so eloquently demands. Such leadership, such social teaching and example, must come from the blacks themselves.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Hope
  • Present
  • Leadership

• The journey matters as much as the goal.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Goal
  • Journey
  • Matters

• Lord, help my poor soul.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Help
  • Soul
  • Poor

• We should seize every opportunity to give encouragement. Encouragement is oxygen to the soul. The days are always dark enough. There is no need for us to emphasize the fact by spreading further gloom.

  

  George Madison Adams
  • Enough
  • Leadership
  • Encouragement