Kin Hubbard Quotes

Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.

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• Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • You
  • Change
  • Growth

• One who neglects or disregards the existence of earth, air, fire, water and vegetation disregards his own existence which is entwined with them.

  

  Mahavira
  • Earth
  • Water
  • Air

• Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Family
  • Fighting
  • Italian

• Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Goals

• There's very little bohemia in Australia and it's one of the things I miss most about not living in Europe.

  

  Rachel Ward
  • Living
  • Europe
  • Australia

• I would say my career is in a very good place. I'm in a place of a lot of hope for what's next. I see something great, but I'm not quite there.

  

  Fortune Feimster
  • Good
  • Great
  • Hope

• My parents are not theatrical people, but my dad took me to the theater.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • People
  • Parents
  • Dad

• Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Real
  • Power

• When I hosted 'Win, Lose or Draw,' it was always fascinating to me that no one knew where anything was when they had to draw a destination.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Me
  • Win
  • Destination

• Just give it everything you've got and bowl as fast as possible.

  

  Imran Khan
  • You
  • Possible
  • Fast

• In the Western tradition, the first writers were teachers and historians, vastly traveled, who spiced their reports with fantasies. They were also poets who sang and entertained prince and pauper.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • First
  • Prince
  • Tradition

• Too often, companies focus on systems and structures that facilitate cultural change at the mid-management level, overlooking problems closer to the top.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Change
  • Focus
  • Problems

• Politics and sports are the same thing in some ways. I like sports; I don't like the sports aspect of politics. The conventions are basically the playoffs, and the election's the Super Bowl. To me, it doesn't feel important.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Important
  • Sports
  • Politics

• It is a great compliment to go out and be recognized. Although, because I basically go home and go to work, there isn't much opportunity for that kind of thing to happen.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Work
  • Great
  • Home

• Hate was nothing that IT didn't have. IT knew all about hate.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Hate

• Sir, he Bolingbroke was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger at his death.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Death
  • Fire
  • Coward

• Love is alike to death, annihilates the senses, My heart it breaks as well, the spirit's drawn from hence

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Heart
  • Death

• Our competition has always been anything that is wasting your time when you're bored at work. In a broad sense. We want people to come to reddit to find out what's new and interesting online, but we realize they usually do this when they should be working or perhaps when they start or when they end their day. And that's always been the goal.

  

  Alexis Ohanian
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• There's a good argument to be made that companies that are private, where they're run by partnerships, where everybody has true stake in them and they're not playing with other people's money, that by default it's a safer system, because you really have skin in the game. You really own the company.

  

  Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • People
  • Good
  • Money

• I wanted to create an experiential film that was immersive... I wanted you to feel like you were there.

  

  Keith Maitland

• The first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control.

  

  Nick Bostrom
  • Control
  • Invention
  • Machine

• Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apart—the mutations that make us the sort of creature that could wipe out its nearest relative, then dig up its bones and reassemble its genome.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Creature
  • DNA
  • Genome

• The best and simplest cosmetic for women is constant gentleness and sympathy for the noblest interests of her fellow-creatures. This preserves and gives to her features an indelibly gay, fresh, and agreeable expression. If women would but realize that harshness makes them ugly, it would prove the best means of conversion.

  

  Berthold Auerbach
  • Interest
  • Ugly
  • Realizing

• Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.

  

  Kin Hubbard