Annie Besant Quotes

Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

Annie Besant

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• Jeff Williams, Apple's senior vice president of operations, has been called 'Tim Cook's Tim Cook' by some.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Senior
  • Apple
  • Operations

• At first blush, it seems odd that loser lit books are rejected initially, then go on to be fiercely loved by legions of readers. This apparent contradiction might be due to the fact that if they didn't screw up their lives, most losers would be the kind of power-elite, Type A go-getters whom readers love to hate.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Up
  • Love
  • Power

• I had no trouble going from radio to TV - I just thought of TV as radio with pictures.

  

  Larry King
  • Thought
  • Trouble
  • Radio

• If I had my time again and was able to change one thing from my career then I wouldn't have retired. I would have played for Wales longer.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Time
  • Career
  • Change

• I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Better
  • Far
  • Editor

• When improv is bad, it's excruciating to watch, and to be involved with it is a unique type of torture.

  

  Zach Woods
  • Bad
  • Unique
  • Watch

• Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Money
  • Power
  • Nature

• It's the experts in adolescent development who wax most emphatic about the value of family meals, for it's in the teenage years that this daily investment pays some of its biggest dividends.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Family
  • Value
  • Daily

• It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Better

• It's not easy to come somewhere new and have to find your place. You might feel someone doesn't like you, or you might need to find new friends. It's not easy, and I don't like this kind of thing. It's not easy, so you want to protect the players who are alone.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Friends
  • Alone
  • Easy

• In London I feel free; nobody bothers anyone and everyone is free to express themselves.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Free
  • Feel
  • London

• Women artists are still treated differently from men.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Men
  • Women
  • Artists

• Those who oppose reform will also tell you that under our plan, you won't get to choose your doctor - that some bureaucrat will choose for you. That's also not true.

  

  Barack Obama
  • True
  • Plan
  • Doctor

• I don't have big security guards. I don't have an entourage.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Security
  • Big
  • Entourage

• I don't know if people are born with a worldview or if their thinking is a product of their environment.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Know

• When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Start
  • Search
  • Starting

• My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006, I asked a boy begging on the streets, 'If you could have anything in the world, what would you want?' and he answered me with two words: 'A pencil.' Luckily, I had one in my pocket, and in the second it took me to give it to him, a defining dream was born.

  

  Adam Braun
  • World
  • Dream
  • Words

• Just losing a couple pounds takes so much stress off your joints. Your body feels better.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Couple
  • Body
  • Stress

• I work very hard to line up stereotypes and then smash them with a hammer.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Up
  • Work
  • Stereotypes

• The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Thankful

• We know that the great majority of people have a strong need for authority which it can admire, to which it can submit, and which dominates and sometimes even ill-treats it.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Authority
  • Majority
  • Dominates

• Growing up with Jennifer Lopez and Salma Hayek - people who were always trying to do something else - I wanted to follow in their footsteps. They gave people a different perspective of how women were supposed to look like and be.

  

  Paula Garces
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• The best advice about women was from Robert Evans. The line was in his book, but he told me, "When it comes to a woman's mind, I know nothing."

  

  Slash Guns N' Roses
  • Mind
  • Book
  • Advice

• Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

  

  Annie Besant