Les Brown Quotes

If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

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• As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Influence
  • Skin
  • Disappointed

• Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Why
  • Think
  • Food

• That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Fashion

• By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Excellence
  • Contemplation

• Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Work
  • House
  • Violence

• I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Devil

• Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Time
  • Want
  • Fault

• A woman simply is, but a man must become.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Man
  • Woman

• A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Long
  • Career

• Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Life
  • Political
  • Community

• It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.

  

  Vida Blue
  • Men
  • Weird
  • Baseball

• I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Bad
  • Think

• If you're at an award ceremony, you're against your mates.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • You
  • Against
  • Award

• Yes, long hours and a hard life for my parents, but for a six to seven year old every new day dawned with fresh excitement when you have not a care in the world, and so much to learn and witness.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • Life
  • World
  • Long

• I have my favourite black knife with me all the time. It's a switchblade. It relaxes me to flick it.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Time
  • Favourite
  • Knife

• The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Time
  • Feel
  • Stage

• I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Together
  • Friend
  • Twins

• Over the last several days, we have heard from members of Congress who want their voices to be heard. I absolutely agree.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Congress
  • Members
  • Agree

• People need to climb the mountain not simple because it is there But because the soulful divinity needs to be mated with the spirit.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Simple
  • Mountain

• The one thing that John Kennedy did, above all else, was to energize young people to feel that they wanted to give something to their country. I just hope, for young people of this generation, that they'll experience that feeling once again, that by working on large goals, they can do something more than their own individual ambition.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • People
  • Country
  • Experience

• The party is on my birthday, June 21 - my 21st on the 21st, which is Midsummer's Day, the longest day of the year and the longest night for a lot of people who are helping to organize it. My father very kindly suggested having a party, although he's probably regretting it now.

  

  Prince William
  • People
  • Father
  • Night

• God gave me this illness to remind me that I'm not Number One; He is.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • God
  • Illness
  • Remind

• If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

  

  Les Brown
  • Goals
  • Determination