Rabbi Hillel Quotes

The more flesh, the more worms; the more possessions, the more worry.

Rabbi Hillel

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• I began singing in dive bars and really small clubs. I dragged my piano down the stairs, and I went down the street with my keyboard, and I would go to every different dive bar that I could get to agree to let me play. I'd call and pretend I was Lady Gaga's manager.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Different
  • Play
  • Street

• A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.

  

  C. V. Wedgwood

• A friend of mine says that perfection is a road, not a destination.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Friend
  • Road
  • Destination

• We knew we were going to be short-handed, being that Chris wasn't playing, and other guys stepped up and played big for us.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Up
  • Playing
  • Guys

• Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Real
  • Technology
  • Architecture

• All of that is constantly operating when you not only learn, but when you recall. But as you recall in a different light, the weights with which something is more probably going to be or not recalled on the next instance, are going to be changed. So you're constantly changing the way, for instance, synapses are going to fire very easily or not so easily.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Different
  • Light
  • Fire

• The trouble with the average person is that he doesn't trust himself sufficiently to create and deliver ideas.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Person
  • Trouble
  • Average

• The players had bad personal relations, and that's what led to this shameful end. My mistake was not throwing five to six of them off the team. They don't even talk with each other, everyone only looks after his own interest. I've never seen such people before.

  

  Zeljko Obradovic
  • People
  • Bad
  • Mistake

• You can't order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Mind
  • Order
  • Remembrance

• I always thought that the spine of a character was awe and wonder.

  

  William Shatner
  • Character
  • Wonder
  • Awe

• To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed.

  

  Willie Stargell
  • Children
  • Team
  • Parent

• On no other ground Can I sow my seed Without tearing up Some stinking weed.

  

  William Blake
  • Ground
  • Weed
  • Tearing

• I just can't sit back and wallow, In my own sorrow, but I know one fact: I'll be one tough act to follow.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Facts
  • Sorrow
  • Tough

• I think more and more today there are two ways to enjoy shopping: the first is the discovery, the feeling of searching and finding, and shopping with the eyes too, using all the senses and enjoying the moment - what I call the "slow shopping" experience; and then the second, of course, is e-commerce, which is contrary to the first but as enjoyable.

  

  Carla Sozzani
  • Feeling
  • Eyes
  • Shopping

• What's so wonderful about being 6'3. What is this mythical edge tall men have over average and short men?

  

  Regis Philbin
  • Wonderful
  • Average
  • Mythical

• Deal with difficult tasks while they are easy. Act on large issues while they are small.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Issues
  • Deal
  • Tasks

• The more flesh, the more worms; the more possessions, the more worry.

  

  Rabbi Hillel
  • Flesh
  • Possessions
  • Worms