Alex Haley Quotes
You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you … It's a small service, and there's a lot of esprit de corps.
Quotes to Explore
-
Devout Anatolian masses rising from poverty have transformed Turkey politically and economically.
-
You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
-
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
-
These years after my liberation were years of reconstruction, and I think I made the right decisions... I mean, I lost everything: my life; my father died; I didn't know anything about my children.
-
Many women, sometime in their life, are going to get to a point where they have to admit infidelity.
-
Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.
-
If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.
-
I can't give a decent toast to save my life.
-
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
-
Most experiences are either sensual or intellectual. Chamber music, played by a small group so the listener can follow what each player is doing, is both.
-
Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.
-
Men view life to be as precious as women do, and to say that men have a more violent nature is insulting to men.
-
I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.
-
My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of town and he died when I was six. He was remarkably curious about the world, and he read lots of books.
-
Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my whole life. I think it's a journey worth taking, really finding out who you are and what you do well.
-
We need to encourage young women to find what they love to do. That is a very valuable pursuit - more so than the pursuit of a boyfriend. When you have that core, you bring that core to every aspect of your life.
-
It is surprising how little most small business values the customers. A positive feedback from the customer is critical to your business, and what's more important is their referral.
-
Your present is shaped by your yesterday, but you don't have to advertise it.
-
The world is what you think of it. So think of it differently, and your life will change.
-
Going from idea to production is a huge hurdle. It took me a while to overcome it. It's basically all about self discipline, right?
-
I'm very pessimistic.
-
There must be free and open interdepartmental discussion and consideration of everyone's ideas and opinions. These internal discussions must not be considered an invasion of turf, and must remain private... When everyone is on the same page, trust develops, and teams can grow and succeed together.
-
When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it.
-
You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you … It's a small service, and there's a lot of esprit de corps.
