George Shinn Quotes
Believe you can do it. Believing something can be done puts your mind to work for you and helps you find ways to do it.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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The textile industry became a huge deal in 19th century America, kind of like the tech industry is today. And that immigrant tradition continues, especially in tech, America's most dominant and dynamic industry today.
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Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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I think trust is the most important thing. If the actors and the director and the crew trust each other and you set up perimeters and boundaries, you give everyone space to do great work.
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You're a hundred percent correct about our show being tops in quality.
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The attitude of the business community towards investment in Austria and Germany has always been positive, as both the countries have earned their reputation as countries with a consistent economic environment.
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Right whales - so named because they were 'the right whale to kill' - grazed the waters off Nantucket as if they were seagoing cattle, straining the nutrient-rich surface of the ocean through the bushy plates of baleen in their perpetually grinning mouths.
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Whenever I've not known what to do, I've always gone back to the Carter Family because there was nothing like singing with my aunts and my mom to my grandma.
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Our Soviet writer must be guided in his world only by the need of the people, useful for the society.
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I agreed the situation was sticky. Indeed, offhand it was difficult to see how it could have been more glutinous.
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Epops: Come let me see, what shall the name be for our city? ... Euelpides: Hence, from the clouds, and these meteoric regions, some all-swelling name. Pisthetaerus: Would you 'Cloud-cuckoo-land?' (tr. Warter 1830, p. 215)
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He’s not really a religious man, but he knows which side his bread’s buttered on. The churches pay his salary, so he doesn’t want anyone rocking the boat with unorthodox rumours.
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When I'm not working, I don't do lots of glamorous things.
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I took boxing classes and karate when I was young.
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Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.
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Maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight you're on my mind, so you never know.
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I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure out what that means for me at this point in my life.
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Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
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But death doesn't work like that. It doesn't care if someone loves you, doesn't want you to go. It just takes. It takes and it takes until eventually you have nothing left.
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Jung believed that alchemy is about the transmutation of of the mind and the discovery of the self. Inevitably, he saw the male and female elements of the prima materia - the king and queen of alchemy - as the animus and anima; this seemed to indicate the (sic) alchemy is about psychological processes.
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The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing.
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Believe you can do it. Believing something can be done puts your mind to work for you and helps you find ways to do it.
