Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

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• In India, it is difficult for a cricketer to show that he is under some kind of stress. Here, you can only retire when you don't want to play anymore, or the motivation is lacking.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Want
  • Stress
  • motivation

• I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Fighting

• Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.

  

  Questlove
  • Up
  • Losing
  • Circle

• Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Rest
  • Ideas
  • Better

• We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Think
  • Want
  • Cloud

• Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Work
  • Music
  • Meditation

• I don't ever want to be like a peasant. I want to always be all right. But motivation is fans - not your kids, your mum, none of that. All of that matters, but number one is your fans.

  

  Young Thug
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Always

• People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Movie
  • Just

• Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself. I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette, but if I do, then within that, I can be creative.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Long
  • Yourself
  • Creative

• I stuck out more in an English public school than I would have had I marched in a May Day parade with the Red Army in Moscow or sashayed the Yves St. Laurent catwalk with supermodels or hunted seals with the Inuit or - well, you get the idea.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • School
  • May
  • Day

• I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • American
  • Think
  • You

• I'd see an old person on the street and start crying. I couldn't understand how people could cope, knowing they only had so long left. It would be like dominoes and then the last one fell and I'm a little heap on the floor. Doctors put me on anti-depressants for a couple of years.

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Long
  • Couple

• Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Change
  • Die
  • Old

• There's no wrong way to experience a film.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Experience
  • Way
  • Film

• Smaller groups of people can establish trusting relationships.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Relationships

• Questions and answers is a big space, and there are lots of possible systems that you can create for different goals.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Different
  • Space
  • Goals

• I was worried that in London I would be judged for who I know rather than what I do. In New York, I am known for fashion.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Fashion
  • Judged
  • Rather

• The leader of a company needs to have a decision tree in his head - if this happens, we go this way, but if it winds up like that, then we go this other way.

  

  Sean Parker
  • Decision
  • Tree
  • Leader

• 'I would say, ‘Is there anything I can do?’-but Skip once told me that that was the most hateful and stupid expression in the English language.'

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • English
  • Stupid

• Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Work
  • Important
  • May

• To strive for the common prosperity and happiness of all nations, as well as the security and wellbeing of our subjects, is the solemn obligation which has been handed down by our imperial ancestors and which lies close to our heart.

  

  Emperor Hirohito
  • Heart
  • Lies
  • Nations

• I am an actress, a producer, a philanthropist, a wife, and above all a mommy to my beautiful babies, Leonardo and Valentino.

  

  Joyce Giraud
  • Wife
  • Actress
  • Producer

• Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Stupid