Ann Druyan Quotes

If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic.

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• If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.

  

  Garth Nix
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• The bad news is, I have worked less than I have liked. The good news is, I can look back on my body of work and feel truly proud of the work I have done.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Good
  • Work
  • Done

• It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Good
  • Work
  • Mind

• If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Mother

• I've always cared about fashion and what I look like. I don't like to spend a lot of money on designer clothes, but I do like to look good.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Good
  • Money
  • Fashion

• The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Work
  • Family
  • Fun

• Research indicates that employees have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Good
  • Work
  • Job

• Most of the hotel gym's are not adequate. I mean you might be able to train your arms, but you aren't going to be able to train legs, back, or even chest if they don't have dumbbells and benches.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
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  • Train
  • Hotel

• It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know it's good, you know what I mean? Rather than writing a whole bunch and having to sort out what's good and what's not.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• I was a very, very good congressman.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Good
  • Very
  • Congressman

• The way I train, the way I spar, I'm out of my comfort zone every single day, and you can see the result in my fights.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Single
  • Day
  • Train

• Mike Tyson would have been a good sparring partner for me and Muhammad Ali because Tyson was a fast fighter and he could punch and throw good combinations.

  

  Larry Holmes
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  • Me
  • Partner

• I've had more ups than downs in my career. All you can do is keep working. You still have to take enjoyment out of what you're doing, and things will turn, and my smile has always been there. In good moments and bad.

  

  Eden Hazard
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  • Bad
  • Career

• The only thing worse than a bad review from the Ayatollah Khomeini would be a good review from the Ayatollah Khomeini.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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  • Review

• An ideal day for me is a combination of a fun-exciting creative moment with work partners, some laughs and games with my kids, a good surf session, and great conversation with friends around a meal.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Good
  • Idea
  • Psychology

• The organization of the government itself is something which we ought to examine in a more self-conscious way - the Federal Reserve and the Treasury and the Securities and Exchange Commission. The mission that each of them has is mainly economic but should be informed by good organizational practices.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • Good
  • Government
  • Organization

• I wear things that kind of can look good for extended periods of time - fabrics that don't wrinkle, things that don't stain very easily.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Time
  • Good
  • Look

• Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. He will not understand what you have to say about architecture most of the time. An architect of ability should be able to tell a client what he wants. Most of the time a client never knows what he wants.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Time
  • Good
  • Children

• Food is the essential thing to gaining weight. Protein, you know, that's basically it - protein.

  

  Manu Bennett
  • You
  • Food
  • Know

• My high-school friends and I felt part of a community of smart, forward-looking space and technology freaks.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • School
  • Friends
  • High

• The House of Lords, architecturally, is a magnificent room, and the dignity, quiet, and repose of the scene made me unwillingly acknowledge that the Senate of the United States might possibly improve its manners. Perhaps in our desire for simplicity, absence of title, or badge of office we may have thrown over too much.

  

  M. E. W. Sherwood
  • May
  • House
  • Desire

• Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Game
  • Night
  • Play

• If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic.

  

  Ann Druyan
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