Charles Dickens Quotes
Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them.Charles Dickens
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
W. Somerset Maugham -
We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Zen master anytime soon. But a little enlightenment could keep you from making some common investing errors.
Barry Ritholtz -
Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them.
Patrick Henry -
A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.
A. J. P. Taylor -
Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.
Walter Lord -
I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Watch her disappear into a role; watch what she does.'
Barbara Rosenblat
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Our Revolution emerged where it was least expected by the empire, in a hemisphere where it was used to acting like an all-powerful master.
Fidel Castro -
It is with just that hope that we welcome everything that tends to strengthen the fibre and develop the nature on more sides. When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy.
Margaret Fuller -
Every master knows that the material teaches the artist.
Ilya Ehrenburg -
I learned that I could control my life. You are the master of your fate. . . you are the captain of your soul. I took control and went to my space. . . My space. . . the universal energy. . . I tapped into that space of divine flow, where all beings, all things are connected. That space is real. You cannot have a meaningful life without having spiritual self-reflection. Know who you are and why you are here. When you tap into that space, divine flow, that universal energy, you become untouchable in what you are called to do.
Oprah Winfrey -
Material success is rewarding and a lot of fun, but it's not the most important thing in my life because I know when this is all over, the Master isn't going to ask me how many things I owned or how many television shows I did. I think the questions will be, What did I do to make a difference? Did I learn to live with love in my heart?
Oprah Winfrey -
We have to know that life cannot be changed by us. It will be changed. But not by us. We can only guide the things that can cause physical change.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.
Oscar Wilde -
The reason man may become the master of his own destiny is because he has the power to influence his own subconscious mind.
Napoleon Hill -
You must master the habit of procrastination and eliminate it from your wake-up. This habit of putting off until tomorrow that which you should have done last week or last year or a score of years ago is gnawing at the very vitals of your being and you can accomplish nothing until you throw it off.
Napoleon Hill -
Richard Lewis is the master at taking a joke that he's told a million times in a row in the past year, on the road, and making it look like he's pulling it out of thin air.
Artie Lange -
We are all salesman regardless of our calling. But not all of us are Master Salesmen.
Napoleon Hill -
[Yorgos Lanthimos] is really a master I feel, I really do.
Colin Farrell
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Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.
Earl Long -
The only description for Nolan in the script was that he's a very bad dresser. I put on a red windbreaker and every other ugly, ill-fitting thing I could dig out. He was potentially written as a clean-cut nerd, but I wanted a darker spin.
Gabriel Mann -
If design is the first signal of human intention.
William McDonough -
Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them.
Charles Dickens