Louis Leakey Quotes

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• Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Desire
  • Principle
  • Obsession

• I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Good
  • Actor
  • Say

• The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the suburbanization of America, the rise of the homeowner, the build-out of the interstate highway system, and the rise of automobile culture. Credit availability expanded dramatically.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • America
  • Culture
  • Period

• While I love musical theater, it wasn't the right fit for me. It's so competitive, and I was at such a disadvantage, having started performing when I was 17.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Right
  • Theater
  • Musical

• I prefer recording drums in the analog format, but that does not mean I would only do it that way.

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
  • Way
  • Mean
  • Drums

• The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Ended

• There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Nothing
  • Holocaust
  • Compares

• If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He's literally crazy.'

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Crazy

• I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Think
  • Growing
  • Loss

• Slowly, ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Ideas
  • Actions
  • Lead

• Lying is a cooperative act. Think about it. A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance. Its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Lie

• I was always amazed when people were kind to us.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • People

• Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.

  

  Lester B. Pearson
  • World
  • Important
  • Done

• There is no mystery in humans creation. Will performs this miracle. But at least there is no true creation without a secret.

  

  Albert Camus
  • True
  • Miracle

• Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public.

  

  David Herbert Donald
  • Up

• We're not really for anything but a better America, a stronger country. And we do support our soldiers.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Country
  • America
  • Support

• I think I'm a pretty average person, and I respond to positive things, so I write for myself.

  

  Janet Evanovich
  • Pretty
  • Positive

• For the Palestinians' efforts to delegitimize Israel will end in failure. Palestinian leaders will not achieve peace or prosperity if Hamas insists on a path of terror and rejection. And Palestinians will never realize their independence by denying the right of Israel to exist.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Peace
  • Failure
  • Path

• I've never really been nervous about any concerts. I enjoy it so much. All that matters is getting the songs played well, trying to get them to sound as close to the record live, which isn't easy, because my music is quite complicated to play.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Song

• We humans have the capacity to wreak horrors on each other. But we also have the capacity to survive those horrors.

  

  Barry Lyga
  • Humans
  • Survive
  • Horrors

• Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.

  

  George Mikes
  • Game
  • English
  • Cricket

• Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Believe
  • Together
  • Earth

• The Foxhall jaw has now been missing for many years.

  

  Louis Leakey
  • Missing