Alice Walton Quotes
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First you give life and action and guidance to ideas, then they take on power of their own and sweep aside all opposition.
Napoleon Hill -
Human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated individuals who are willing to be co-workers with God and without this hard work time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world
Willa Cather -
Solitude bears the same relation to the mind that sleep does to the body. It affords it the necessary opportunities for repose and recovery.
William Gilmore Simms -
For this is wisdom: to live, to take what fate, or the Gods, may give.
Adela Florence Nicolson -
If an artwork never gets any attention from anybody, then obviously it's got problems. If it gains attention from a very small elite, then it's presumably doing something. Finnegans Wake gets a lot of attention from certain people who become passionate about it, who are usually very good readers in general. Although - I often talk about costs and benefits - it seems to me the costs of reading Finnegans Wake are not worth the benefits, however many there may be. And it's the same with the more arcane among poets, Zukofsky and so on.
Brian Boyd
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One of the awful things about writing when you are a Christian is that for you the ultimate reality is the Incarnation, the present reality is the Incarnation, and nobody believes in the Incarnation; that is, nobody in your audience. My audience are the people who think God is dead. At least these are the people I am conscious of writing for.
Kate Flannery -
The paperless office is possible, but not by imitating paper. Note that the horseless carriage did not work by imitating horses.
Ted Nelson -
She rebelled against the emptiness and meaninglessness of her life. She hoped that when Bruce was her age he too would rebel if he found his life intolerable. She hoped he would want to do something about it; anything was better than to submit to your fate supinely.
Emilie Loring -
We're the older group on the field right now. To ease the transition, our job is to always be in the right spot, so the quarterback doesn't have to find us, and to never show disgust with the quarterback on the field, because the fans and the media will see that and start to criticize him, and by the same token lower his confidence.
Braylon Edwards -
Appreciation in advance brings everything you want to you.
Esther Hicks -
Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them.
Hayao Miyazaki
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Sometimes when I'm healthier on a big day, I feel better about myself.
Molly Sims -
It's all across the board, ... We get hit in the food area, college vehicle expenses, utilities and operational budgets.
Ann Miller -
We cut to the bare bone. That's how we got to this point, ... Expenses continue to rise, but revenues are staying in a straight line.
F. Thomson Leighton -
Time and again, we let the fear of loss overpower rational decision-making and often make ourselves worse off just to avoid a potential loss. Psychologists call this loss aversion, and it means we often tend to prefer avoiding losses at the expense of acquiring gains
L. Jon Wertheim -
It is true that [the provisions of the Bill of Rights] were designed to meet ancient evils. But they are the same kind of human evils that have emerged from century to century whenever excessive power is sought by the few at the expense of the many.
Hugo Black -
” Expenses should never exceed one percent of our purchases.”
Alice Walton