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

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

  

  Max Planck
  • Happy

• 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

• 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

• Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

• I live at the dentist's. I'm on my third set of teeth that they put in with nails and screws.

  

  Charles Nelson Reilly
  • Live

• I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff.

  

  Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Writing

• The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Pretty

• I think in some ways - only in some ways - but in some ways, rock and roll has let me down. It really doesn't leave you a way to grow old gracefully and continue to work.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Thinking
  • Grows
  • Continue

• Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• The civil-rights movement was completely impossible to achieve. But look at what ordinary people were able to do because they were willing to sacrifice their lives to stay with it. They didn't expect a political process to respond to them. They made the political process respond to them. To say "It's so bad I won't bother" is to give up on your children and give up on your future.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • People
  • Up
  • Children

• 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