Marguerite Young Quotes

Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.

Marguerite Young

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• I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Time
  • Different
  • Today

• The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Time
  • Abuse
  • Critics

• Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Body

• Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • People
  • You
  • Happiness

• You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Good
  • Men

• I had grand visions of being in professional sports. But when reality set in, I went, 'Oh, OK. I'll just move to Hollywood and be an actor.' I didn't want to look back on my life and wonder, 'What if I had done this? Or I had done that?'

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Life
  • Done
  • Reality

• There's a fine line between playing through things and sitting out. I was always on the side of, 'I'm going to play through it.' It's probably good at times, bad at times, but for an athlete to always try to be there and play through things, from a teammate's perspective, it speaks volumes. Now that I look back, mentally it makes you tougher.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Play

• I'm not a supermodel. I make the best of what I've got.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Best
  • Got
  • Supermodel

• Medicine may be the lens through which I see the world, but since I think of medicine as 'life +', a place where life is exaggerated and seen at its most vital and poignant, I'll be writing about life more than I will be writing about medicine.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Life
  • World
  • Writing

• Commissions add up, taxes are a big drag, margin ain't cheap. A good accountant costs money as well. The math on this one is obvious, yet investors often fail to recognize it: Keep your costs low and your turnover lower, and you will win in the end.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Up
  • Good
  • Money

• I think of L.A. as truly the melting pot. It's basically a mini-country unto itself.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Country
  • Think
  • I Think

• Slowly, ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Ideas
  • Actions
  • Lead

• Vitaque mancipio, nulli datur, omnibus usu.

  

  Lucretius

• What else will you have? Nice banana and bacon sandwich?

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Nice

• The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band.

  

  Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Small
  • Band

• First the masters died, now their music is dying, because people only want to listen to pop, rock, and punk.

  

  Elfriede Jelinek
  • People
  • Music
  • Rock

• May not machines carry out something which ought to be described as thinking but which is very different from what a man does?

  

  Alan Turing
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • May

• While your intentions may be good, this is something every expectant working mom fears - being phased out. I'll put myself out there and admit this has been/is a fear of mine. Let her be the one to decide whether something's too much for her to handle or not.

  

  Christine Tsai
  • Good
  • May
  • Fear

• I've always played the guy with the gun and the knife. That's how many actors start out, playing the bad guy.

  

  Benicio Del Toro
  • Bad
  • Guy
  • Gun

• If I don't document something, it's usually either for a good reason, or a bad reason. In this case it's a good reason.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Good
  • Bad

• The Gospels record that nearly everywhere the Savior went, He was surrounded by multitudes of people. Some hoped that He would heal them; others came to hear Him speak. Others came for practical advice. Toward the end of His mortal ministry, some came to mock and ridicule Him and to clamor for His crucifixion.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • People
  • Advice

• Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Life
  • Future
  • Water

• The most successful network marketers I know, the ones receiving tons of referrals and feeling truly happy about themselves, continually put the other person's needs ahead of their own.

  

  Bob Burg
  • Happy
  • Network
  • Marketers

• Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.

  

  Marguerite Young