Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes

Life is a problem. Not merely a premiss from which we start, but a goal towards which we proceed. It is an opportunity for us not merely to get, but to attain; not simply to have, but to be. Its standard of failure or success is not outward fortune, but inward possession.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

• Opportunity
• Problem
• Failure
• Goal
• Life is
• Fortune
• Possession

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• We have a problem. 'Congratulations.' But it's a tough problem. 'Then double congratulations.'

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Problem
  • Tough
  • Congratulations

• In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • America
  • Failure

• My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Problem
  • Right
  • Names

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• I think the Miss Universe title not only gives me the opportunity to become a role model for Latina girls around the world, but to show that beauty isn't just about the outside.

  

  Gabriela Isler
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Universe

• The problem with certainty is that sometimes it can sound cold and heartless, although it is the most compassionate and supportive answer.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Problem
  • Cold
  • Sound

• America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Why
  • America
  • Government

• The problem with Donald Trump is that he went and designed a brand that is entirely amoral.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Problem
  • Trump
  • Donald Trump

• I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Good
  • Song
  • Problem

• It's not as if there's a noise problem, because they use the same circuits as Formula One.

  

  Barry Sheene
  • Problem
  • Same
  • Formula One

• As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, 'All right, well, I'd like to headline a tour,' and then when I get there, we'll see what my next goal is.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Myself
  • Goal
  • Try

• Bob Arum and Don King can do their thing but if I fought for those guys and they put the money up like they are supposed to then I don't have a problem.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Up
  • Money
  • Problem

• I like David Beckham just because of his lifestyle. He don't ever need to score another goal again. How many times has he been on the cover of GQ?

  

  Wale
  • Goal
  • Need
  • Lifestyle

• Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Unique

• I took a break from acting for four years to get a degree in mathematics at UCLA, and during that time I had the rare opportunity to actually do research as an undergraduate. And myself and two other people co-authored a new theorem: Percolation and Gibbs States Multiplicity for Ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller Models on Two Dimensions, or Z2.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • People
  • Time
  • Opportunity

• I think the New Bohemians' inability to say no was a big part of our problem.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Think
  • Problem
  • Say

• You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Think
  • Opportunity
  • Serious

• So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's no question about it.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Opportunity
  • Education
  • Question

• More retirees, longer life expectancy, larger benefits, and fewer workers - these trends have meant substantial increases in the payroll tax. Since the social security program began, the payroll tax has increased more than 500 percent.

  

  Alex Tabarrok
  • Life

• For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world - but it doesn't happen twice.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • World
  • Job
  • Jobs

• We are rational creatures: Our virtue and perfection is to love reason, or rather to love order.

  

  Nicolas Malebranche
  • Reason
  • Virtue
  • Order

• It used to be that one poet in each generation performed poems in public. In the twenties, it was Vachel Lindsay, who sometimes dropped to his knees in the middle of a poem. Then Robert Frost took over, and made his living largely on the road.

  

  Donald Hall
  • Road

• First of all, Asian representation hardly exists to begin with.

  

  Nico Santos
  • Begin
  • Representation
  • Hardly

• Life is a problem. Not merely a premiss from which we start, but a goal towards which we proceed. It is an opportunity for us not merely to get, but to attain; not simply to have, but to be. Its standard of failure or success is not outward fortune, but inward possession.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Opportunity
  • Problem
  • Failure