P. T. Barnum Quotes
Engage in one kind of business only, and stick to it faithfully until you succeed, or until you conclude to abandon it. A constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last, so that it can be clinched.
Quotes to Explore
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
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Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.
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I'm a realist and I always have been. Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.
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I think that people need an adrenalin rush. Folks need something aspirational; they need to do something that is hard. That's what ignites the imagination.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.
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I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex. I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
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This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.
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I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.
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When people, land, and community are as one, all three members prosper; when they relate not as members but as competing interests, all three are exploited. By consulting Nature as the source and measure of that membership, The Land Institute seeks to develop an agriculture that will save soil from being lost or poisoned while promoting a community life at once prosperous and enduring.
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I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary.
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I'm aware of cliches and I'm aware of experiments that have been done and I'm aware of a kind of deadness to a lot of realism both in the language and in the structure of a book.
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I don't see any harm in letting whatever comes out come out of you, even if it's sort of weird, or dark, or painful, or too embarrassing, or whatever. I feel like you might as well get it down for yourself. It can't do anything but help you get to where you want to be by recognizing the thoughts that you're having.
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Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.
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Engage in one kind of business only, and stick to it faithfully until you succeed, or until you conclude to abandon it. A constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last, so that it can be clinched.
