Gertrude Atherton Quotes

Nowhere can it rain harder and with a more tiresome persistence than in California during the brief season when it rains at all.

Gertrude Atherton

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• During the second half of the twentieth century, I had the privilege of living through years of intensive erudition, and I realized that Canadians, located in the northernmost region of this hemisphere, were always respectful towards our country.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Country
  • Always
  • Privilege

• Life is not easy in politics.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Life
  • Politics
  • Easy

• Filipino talents and skills are becoming ubiquitous in many parts of the world. Returning Filipino workers have helped improve our skills and technological standards.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • World
  • Skills
  • Technological

• Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religion
  • Sacrifice
  • Race

• I believe in incentivizing people. If you can incentivize people in anything, whether it's in politics; in life; in spirituality; in business; just take care of folks. Incentivize them and all of a sudden it's amazing the difference that you'll see.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• I'm a big Michael Lewis fan. That said, my favorite Lewis book was 'The Blind Side.'

  

  Bart Chilton
  • Book
  • Said
  • Blind

• I don't need to impress children.

  

  Ion Tiriac
  • Children
  • Need
  • Impress

• The need to encourage entrepreneurship and ensure that young people have the opportunity to start new businesses is acute.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Start

• The massive migration from dumb phones to smart phones is a great opportunity for young companies to take advantage of.

  

  Adam Dell
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • Smart

• You could get a cheer by saying: 'Let's withdraw from Afghanistan', but I don't think that's where the public's at. It wouldn't be responsible.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Think
  • You
  • Saying

• The same way we can send and receive an email with anyone, anywhere, for free, or we can share a photo with anyone instantly for free, money will become these digital tokens, and we'll be able to do that with money.

  

  Jeremy Allaire
  • Money
  • Free

• When a child is bruised physically or emotionally, parents often reward him with a treat.

  

  Marilu Henner
  • Parents

• I made the decision I will back Mr. Trump, it's not very complicated. I don't pussyfoot around playing the odds.

  

  Carlos Beruff
  • Decision
  • Trump

• I grew up in Boston, so it's a nice change to be cold after living in California.

  

  Matt LeBlanc
  • Up
  • Nice
  • Cold

• I love seeing people's reactions to gifts that I've created from my line, such as my gold horn ring, bottle openers, my 'Fallen' leather jacket and my Slither black and white sweater.

  

  Kelly Wearstler
  • People
  • Black
  • Gold

• I think it's important to always keep professional and surround yourself with good people, work hard, and be nice to everyone.

  

  Caroline Winberg
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Artistic mediums go through phases where progress happens really rapidly, and then other moments where it slows down.

  

  Doug Liman
  • Moments
  • Progress

• In financial terms, my sense is that the distribution of wealth, unequal as it is, is self-perpetuating, and, especially in a linked and accelerating world, the rich get ever more quickly richer while the poor get ever more speedily poorer.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • World
  • Financial

• Steve Martin said that philosophy is good for comedy because it screws up your thinking just enough, and I agree with that. Being forced to see life's metadata is good training for looking for interesting angles on a topic.

  

  Chris Hardwick
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• At Shutterstock, we've been offering tutorials to customers and contributors on our blog for many years. Our audience already viewed us as thought leaders on the latest digital and creative skills; we felt it so natural for us to launch Skillfeed, which is an online marketplace for professional learning.

  

  Jon Oringer
  • Learning
  • Professional

• For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.

  

  Karen O
  • Space
  • Rest
  • California

• I basically left Texas with no money. I was making $3.50 working in some mall, so I didn't have a lot of cash. I took $1,000 and headed to California. Along the way I stopped in Vegas because I had always wanted to see Caesar's Palace. So I stopped there and won $2,500 on a slot machine! It was amazing.

  

  Krista Allen
  • Money
  • Amazing
  • California

• Plus the public's attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn't strike while the iron is hot... well it's not like people will forget you, but they just won't care anymore.

  

  Brian Boitano
  • People
  • Attention

• Nowhere can it rain harder and with a more tiresome persistence than in California during the brief season when it rains at all.

  

  Gertrude Atherton
  • California
  • Persistence
  • Rains