“Life means opportunity, and the thing men call death is the last wonderful, beautiful adventure.” Quote by Alice Foote MacDougall
“For too many of us ease is far more soul-destroying than trouble.” SoulTroubleEaseDestroyingIdleness Author:Alice Foote MacDougall
“To me life means the growing of a soul. I do not know why this duty is imposed upon us. I merely know that it is, and I feel that we are given much latitude of free will.” KnowsLifeFeelsMeanSoulGivenGrowingDutyFree WillLife MeansLatitude Author:Alice Foote MacDougall
“a few hours with Beethoven are more restful than sleep.” HoursSleepMusicRestful Author:Alice Foote MacDougall
“Not only is orderliness an economy; it produces rest.” OrderEconomyProduceOrderliness Author:Alice Foote MacDougall
“for the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your soul is safe from invasion.” WorldSoulSelfWholeActionPoorSecretPovertySafeCriticsDebateWhole WorldYour SoulSmallestInvasionSecret Places Author:Alice Foote MacDougall
“When one is working out a problem ... life becomes duality. One's ego transacts the ordinary routine of things, as if the mind had an upper and lower story and the regular performance of the day's duties moved and motivated on the upper floor, while down below the all-absorbing problem toils silently, forcefully, toward its solution.” IfsMindStoriesProblemDutyEgoSolutionsOrdinaryPerformancesMovedWork OutMotivatedRoutineProblem SolvingToilDualityAbsorbing Author:Alice Foote MacDougall
“I wouldn't use the word 'scared' for my role as Hitchcock, but it was my most insecure. Taking on such a formidable, giant personality such as Hitchcock; he was one of the great geniuses of world cinema. Sheer genius.” WorldUseRolesPersonalityGeniusScaredCinemaGiantsSheerInsecureFormidableHitchcock Author:Anthony Hopkins
“In all the wide gamut of human experience, nothing plays so important a part as faith.... Faith that is as broad as the heavens and as wide as the earth. Faith that comprehends in its vast sympathies everything human as well as divine, and carries one with the swift sure wings of the angels directly to his goal.” HumansWellsImportantPlayEarthSuccessFaithHeavenGoalDivineAngelWingsWideCarrieBroadsHuman Experience Author:Alice Foote MacDougall
“You the rich are no whit more attractive or capable than you who were poor and struggling a few years back. But when before you plodded lonely and unappreciated, now the glamour of the motor and the smart apartment surrounds you with a tangible glory. It is amazing how many friends look you up, call you by name, and extol you, who were once a little timid, or indifferent, or utterly neglectful in your time of dire poverty. One has true friends when one is poor and no riches can be greater than that. They are not so obvious when one is rich.” YearsLooksLittlesSuccessNamesFriendshipWealthPoorPovertyStruggleRichGreaterCapableSmartGloryLonelyObviousRichesAttractiveSurroundApartmentIndifferentTrue FriendMotorGlamourTangibleMany Friends Author:Alice Foote MacDougall
“I am always glad to think that my education was, for the most part, informal, and had not the slightest reference to a future business career. It left me free and untrammeled to approach my business problems without the limiting influence of specific training.” ThinkingProblemReadingLeftBusinessEducationCareersInfluenceApproachTrainingGladBusiness ProblemsFuture Business Author:Alice Foote MacDougall