Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

If you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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• Pre-history tells us that our species used to be a hunter-gatherer society. This means that the job of raising a family was split 50-50 between the men and the women - the man's 50 percent share was to sit in the woods with a sharp stick, waiting for something to hunt to wander by, and the woman's 50 percent was to do everything else.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• It was the late Dr. Mahendra Lal Sircar who, by founding the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, made it possible for the scientific aspirations of my early years to continue burning brightly.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Science
  • Early
  • Late

• When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Movie
  • Thought
  • Look

• He is energetic only in evading responsibility.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Responsibility

• Some fella said to me, 'Have you had LSD, Paul?' And I said 'Yes.' And it was only 'cuz I was going to just be honest with him. There's no other reason. I didn't want to spread it or anything, you know. I'm not trying to do anything except answer his question. But he happened to be a reporter, and I happened to be a Beatle.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Trying
  • Question

• I have faith in the universe, for it is rational. Law underlies each happening. And I have faith in my purpose here on earth. I have faith in my intuition, the language of my conscience, but I have no faith in speculation about Heaven and Hell. I'm concerned with this time-here and now.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Earth
  • Faith
  • Universe

• There is a vast difference - a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and the refusal of individuals to commingle where the state presents no such bar.

  

  Frederick M. Vinson

• I have been in this business for over 30 years. I've seen a lot of development programmes. They don't all run smoothly.

  

  Marillyn Hewson
  • Business

• I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • People
  • Up
  • English

• No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

  

  Max Planck
  • Happy

• If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.

  

  Anna Deavere Smith
  • Job

• Bill O'Reilly is like a comfortable pair of shimmeringly angry slippers, but you know every night what you're going to get.

  

  Piers Morgan
  • Night
  • Angry

• I've always had these morals I've sort of put on myself: that excess is bad. I used to be into Buddhism and stuff. I was vegetarian. I was all about shutting things out.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala
  • Bad

• I often say that Arizonans should decide what's best for Arizona.

  

  Jane D. Hull

• You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.

  

  Ellen Swallow Richards
  • Women
  • Cooking
  • Cleaning

• Substantially fewer films will be produced over the next year or two. And a significant portion of the production costs of the reduced slate will be borne by hedge funds and other investment groups.

  

  Peter Bart

• In a way, I'm always trying to do something I'm not qualified to do. So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work out. That's my basic mindset.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Work
  • Trying
  • May

• I can tell you that I can always recognize a Boston song, even if it's in a noisy place. I can hear that it's Boston even before I know what song it is. If a Boston song comes on in a club or somewhere, I notice that it's Boston, and the second thing I notice is what song it is.

  

  Tom Scholz Boston
  • Song

• Happy for America, happy for Europe, perhaps for the world when, on the delivery of Cornwallis's sword to the illustrious, the immortal Washington, or rather by his order, to the brave Lincoln, the sun of Liberty and Independence burst through a sable cloud, and his benign influence was, almost instantaneously, felt in our remotest corners!

  

  Deborah Sampson
  • World
  • America
  • Happy

• In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles

• It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Language
  • Literature
  • Speak

• Sic quisque pavendodat vires famae, nulloque auctore malorumquae finxere timent.

  

  Lucan

• Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Truth
  • Remember
  • Past

• If you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Thinking
  • Concentrate