Louisa May Alcott Quotes

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

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• We continue to be bullish on China.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • China
  • Continue
  • Bullish

• If you put up a blog, people can cut out the middle man and get material to you. Which is really helpful because a lot of time there's really cool stuff out there that we just don't see. Because, y'know, the agent is acting in our best interest, but it does sometimes prevent some of the good stuff from getting through.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • People
  • Experience
  • Success

• Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Together
  • Society
  • Culture

• Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Money
  • Doing

• You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • Religion
  • Disrespect

• Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.

  

  Lance Morrow
  • Mind
  • Church
  • Force

• If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Change
  • Better

• As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Food
  • Control
  • Living

• I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • World
  • Live
  • Small

• I have a close association with Gen. Petraeus... What you get in Dave Petraeus is a very unique officer, a combination of intelligence, extraordinary depth of knowledge and understanding.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Knowledge
  • Understanding
  • Unique

• I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.

  

  Vanna White
  • People
  • Think
  • See

• Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Spiritual
  • Psychology
  • Intelligence

• There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Women
  • Number
  • Mechanical

• We can't legislate human nature.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Nature
  • Human
  • Human Nature

• When you make your living as a singer, you have to go where the gigs are.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • You
  • Living
  • Where

• There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Me
  • Moment
  • Part

• I feel like, in general in my work life, my main goal has been to just be in a situation where I'm not bored with my job. That's been the entire principle. Got my wish.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Life
  • Work
  • Job

• I'm just not comfortable with that society stuff. I mean, we were just invited to the White House, but my husband won't take me because he knows I don't want to go.

  

  Pia Zadora
  • House
  • Society
  • Husband

• It's one of the things I respect about Time Warner and Turner: their understanding of CNN's independence.

  

  Jeff Zucker
  • Time
  • Respect
  • Understanding

• Leaders focus on what they can control, what they have, and what they want.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Leaders

• I think there are two prevailing views of the suburbs in the States: either they're this sort of tedious place, where everyone is the same, buys the same food and drives around in their little minivans, or the view is that the suburbs are extremely perverse in a humorous way.

  

  Megan Abbott
  • Food
  • Humorous

• Disciples are people who operate under the rule of God, and if we're not operating under the rule of God, we can't expect the broader society to take God seriously.

  

  Tony Evans
  • People
  • God
  • Disciple

• It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

  

  Louisa May Alcott
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