Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• When I walk into a Best Buy, I now see, right from the front door, a giant Apple logo. I see a giant Samsung logo. I see a giant Microsoft Windows logo. And those are stores within a store.

  

  Walt Mossberg
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  • Door
  • Walk

• I'm not an aggressive person at all. But I know how to fight.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
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  • Person
  • Fight

• Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Great
  • Important
  • Done

• There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • You
  • Person
  • Then

• Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.

  

  T.I.
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  • Like
  • Salesman

• They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
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  • First
  • Step

• As a woman, my style defines my leadership. It's a gentler, more compassionate approach. I consult, I listen and I compromise where it's in the best interest of the citizens.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
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  • Best
  • Woman

• Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with.

  

  Garth Brooks
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  • Change
  • Band

• If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

  

  Pat Riley
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  • Positive
  • Effort

• Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

  

  Babe Ruth
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• The Russo brothers are the best people ever, and they cast me in 'Happy Endings.' I did text Joe Russo to say, 'I don't think my character dies, so if you need a local news cameraman to show up in 'Captain America 2'... I know it doesn't make sense, but just hear me out on this!' He was really cool about it and turned me down right away.

  

  Adam Pally
  • People
  • Up
  • Character

• I am an ordinary person.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Person
  • Ordinary

• The best thing about being immensely wealthy is not having to be in any particular place at any particular time doing a particular task you don't want to do.

  

  Felix Dennis
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  • Want
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• The climate at country radio is very, 'Let's keep it up-tempo,' probably best if you're a guy.

  

  Cam
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  • Country
  • Guy

• I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast - you sort of can't skip it.

  

  Adam Gopnik
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  • Coffee
  • New York

• I hope everybody thinks they've got the best album. I wouldn't have put mine out if I didn't think it was the best.

  

  Wale
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  • Think
  • Best

• Of course, eating broccoli raw, nutritionally and aesthetically speaking, is no doubt the best way of all. Raw broccoli makes a delectable salad when sliced into thin strips on a mandolin, marinated in lemon-mustard vinaigrette, then tossed with toasted pecans or hazelnuts, halved cherry tomatoes, and fresh minced basil.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Best
  • Doubt
  • Eating

• It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • People
  • Done
  • Strong

• You may have a wen or a cancer upon your person and not be able to cut it out lest you bleed to death; but surely it is no way tocure it, to engraft it and spread it over your whole body.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Death
  • Person
  • Cancer

• I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Work
  • American
  • Doubt

• I reckon there could be an entire 'It'll Be Alright On The Night' programme dedicated to me on 'The Chase.'

  

  Bradley Walsh
  • Night

• God has spoken to man, and the Bible is his Word, given to us to make us wise unto salvation... Godliness means responding to God's revelation in trust and obedience, faith and worship, prayer and praise, submission and service. Life must be seen and lived in the light of God's Word. This, and nothing else, is true religion.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Life
  • God
  • True

• The artists that we grew up listening to was also independent like Master P, like Birdman and Lil Wayne. Those are the people that we wanted to model ourselves after. Throwing on the Cartier frames, the army-style fatigue jackets.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • People
  • Up
  • Style

• The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  • Effort
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