Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes

The weak sinews become strong by their conflict with difficulties.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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• I know firsthand the complexities of leading an enterprise through business and technology transformation. It takes intense focus, a strong drive, and a clearly communicated vision to inspire and take an organization from where they are, to where they need to be - or where they want to go.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Business
  • Strong
  • Technology

• Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Want
  • Building
  • Welfare

• I grew up in Oregon, where as a teenager I worked with my grandfather Axel on his i shing boat at the mouth of the Columbia River.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Up
  • Teenager
  • River

• There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.

  

  Laura Miller
  • Done
  • City
  • Doors

• Also, I use facial masks diligently. I use at least two a day - one for moisturizing and one for whitening. I think I go through at least 600 sheets of facial masks every year.

  

  Fan Bingbing
  • Think
  • Day
  • Year

• But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Sad

• I was in Paris, Milan and London from '89 until '91, and I did mostly runway modeling. I know there's so many people out there looking for pictures, but this was way before the age of the Internet, sorry!

  

  Carla Hall
  • People
  • Age
  • Sorry

• My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Guitar
  • Trees
  • Grandfather

• I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Earth
  • Me
  • Desire

• I'm the kind of person, I leave a little space for better.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Space
  • Kind
  • Better

• But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including the work in molecular biology, genetic engineering, and so forth.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Work
  • Science
  • Technology

• The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Life
  • Health
  • Sleep

• I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • People
  • Myself
  • Famous

• Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • First
  • Creation
  • Destruction

• Theater is there to search for questions. It doesn't give you instructions.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • You
  • Search
  • Questions

• My mum was my inspiration. As cliche as that sounds, she was the reason that we started. She chose cycling to lose weight. I was only eight at the time, so I just followed what my mum did.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Reason
  • Inspiration
  • Lose

• You know, the bigger you get and the more success you have, the more people you can fill your house with to tell you how great you are. You can do that.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • People
  • Great
  • House

• No one wants one language. There are applications when it's appropriate to write something in C rather than in Java. If you want to write something where performance is much more important than extensibility, then you might want to choose C rather than Java.

  

  Brian Behlendorf
  • Important

• If you will have patience in difficulties you know the Holy Spirit is within you, if you will also have the strength to be thankful in troubles than is when the Holy Spirit shines through you.

  

  Arsenie Boca
  • Patience
  • Thankful
  • Difficulties

• Attitudes turning into motives, meeting resistance, creating conflict, and leading to consequences—becoming plot.

  

  Ansen Dibell
  • Conflict
  • Plot
  • Motives

• When society involves the anarch in a conflict which in which he does not participate inwardly, it challenges him to launch an opposition. He will try to turn the lever with which society moves him. Society is then at his disposal, say, as a stage for grand spectacles that are devised for him. Everything changes; the fetter becomes fascinating, danger an adventure, a suspenseful task.

  

  Ernst Junger
  • Society
  • Challenges
  • Adventure

• With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Character
  • Possibilities

• We don't have a hundred years to fix climate change. We don't have a hundred years to wait until we've built all these bridges and rapport and scientific understanding and so on and so forth. We have to fix climate change with the people we have right now, and to a large extent with the perspectives we have right now as well.

  

  Katharine Hayhoe
  • People
  • Change
  • Understanding

• The weak sinews become strong by their conflict with difficulties.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Conflict
  • Difficulties
  • Sinews