Leland Stanford Quotes

The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none.

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• A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • People
  • World
  • Japanese

• When you grow up without it, you want to have it. It's funny, in America some people say, 'Why do you want to make money so much?' And I say, 'Well, I guess you didn't starve as a kid.'

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• I've actually done a lot of comedy.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Done
  • Comedy
  • Actually

• The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.

  

  Walter F. Ulmer
  • Important
  • Job
  • Purpose

• I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Up
  • Problem
  • Better

• The charm of Brittany is to be found in the people and in the churches. The former, with their peculiar costumes and their customs, are full of interest, and the latter are of remarkable beauty and quaintness.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • People
  • Beauty
  • Charm

• Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Important

• Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Believe
  • Nobody
  • Jack

• It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Evil
  • Explain
  • Abhorrent

• Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take hold and say: 'This is part of who I am, but not only who I am.'

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Myself
  • Grief
  • Loss

• Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Writing
  • Funny
  • Humor

• A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Man
  • Will
  • Bridge

• I like the idea of sending my Aquazurra girls out with a lucky charm under their feet.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Idea
  • Lucky
  • Feet

• The trouble with the artists this year is they are all obsessed with Twitter and headlines. It feels like they are all getting a bit above themselves.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • Trouble
  • Year
  • Artists

• There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• My coach keeps telling me to say I'm not going to retire. I should just go through the motions and see what I feel every year and see if I really want to do it, but personally, I want to do it, but my coach says just take your time, don't rush.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Time
  • Want
  • Me

• In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Life
  • Work
  • Thinking

• At the lodge the chief gave me many particulars which were relative to the late visit of the Spaniards.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Late
  • Chief
  • Relative

• Film directing is really undermined if you attempt to do it by committee because there has to be a single vision as to how to tell a story. It's like if you were at a campfire, and everyone is taking turns to give one sentence in telling a horror story. It would be a mess - it's not going to make sense.

  

  Duncan Jones
  • Single
  • Vision

• The Fifties and Sixties were years of unreal optimism about weather forecasting. Newspapers and magazines were filled with hope for weather science, not just for prediction but for modification and control. Two technologies were maturing together: the digital computer and the space satellite.

  

  James Gleick
  • Together
  • Hope
  • Science

• If your manager is one that isn't engaged with your career development by offering frequent advice and guidance, it's time to look for greener pastures.

  

  John Rampton
  • Time
  • Career
  • Advice

• It was tough getting fired by the NBA. I really didn't know where I was going, until [ESPN] called me. I said, "Hey, 'ESPN?' Never heard of it. It sounds like a disease." Now I have that same disease as a sports fanatic. All this sports madness we didn't have years ago, now I'm very blessed and fortunate to be part of it.

  

  Dick Vitale
  • Sports
  • Blessed
  • Disease

• The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none.

  

  Leland Stanford
  • Country