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.P. T. Barnum
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.
Cameron Mackintosh -
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.
Saint Augustine -
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.
Francesco Guicciardini -
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.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee -
I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
Fairuza Balk -
We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex. I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
C. V. Raman
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
Jack Welch -
An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
Francesca Annis -
This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.
Zhang Yimou -
I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
Gaby Hoffmann -
I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!
Kabir Bedi -
My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
A. E. van Vogt
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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.
Taylor Swift -
I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.
Zac Posen -
That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.
Ada Lovelace -
I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
Olesya Rulin -
Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
Tabitha King -
I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
Victoria Pendleton
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Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.
Frank Moore Colby -
I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.'
Walter Mosley -
Speculators get a bad rap. In the popular imagination they're greedy, heedless, and amoral, adept at price manipulations and dirty tricks. In reality, they often play a key role in making markets run smoothly.
James Surowiecki -
I was always interested in it when I was younger, but it was when I was at university, getting together with other like-minded theatrically inclined types, that I admitted to myself that I wanted to be an actor.
Adam Rayner -
I started my first business out of my college dorm room - DJ Connection - and grew it to more than 4,000 events per year. Sounds easy, but while doing that, I made every mistake in the book.
Clay Clark -
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.
P. T. Barnum