A Quotes
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“Anyone in a large organization who thinks major change is impossible should probably get out.”
Source: The New Rules
“Anyone in a position to overcome barriers to free thought and communication should do so.”
“Anyone in a state of seeking can never be happy. Only those who are constantly finding are fulfilled. And finding is not something that happens to us - it is something we do.”
“Anyone in analysis must learn to understand not only himself but also the others who are a part of his life, but it is safer to start with himself. As long as he is entangled in his conflicts the picture he will gain of the others will usually be a distorted one.”
Source: Self-Analysis
“Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.”
“Anyone in England who puts himself forward to be elected to a position of political power is almost bound to be socially or emotionally insecure, or criminally motivated, or mad.”
“Anyone in politics would like to have great economic numbers.”
“Anyone in pursuit of art is responding to a desire to make visible that which is not, to offer the unknown self to others.”
“Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.”
“Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.”
“Anyone in the United States today who isn't paranoid must be crazy.”
“Anyone in the vicinity of a dying man was utterly at his mercy. Punches delivered from a deathbed left bruises that never faded.”
Source: The Satanic Verses
“Anyone in this world can have the power of life and death over someone else. It's horrible, but true. All you need to do is take it. And once you have -- there is no going back. (The Killer's Cousin)”
Source: Killer's Cousin
“Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask. What's in it for me?”
“Anyone interested in becoming a professional umpire and becoming eligible to work in the minor leagues must attend one of the two umpire schools sanctioned by Major League Baseball.”
“Anyone interested in design must be interested in other fields of expression - theater, ballet, photography, literature, music.”
“Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it.”
“Anyone interested in the past, present, or future of banking and financial crises should read The Bankers' New Clothes. Admati and Hellwig provide a forceful and accessible analysis of the recent financial crisis and offer proposals to prevent future financial failures. While controversial, these proposals--whether you agree or disagree with them--will force you to think through the problems and solutions.”
“Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and the way in which the young adult community develops its own language.”
“Anyone involved with songwriting will testify to the fact that each song, no matter how pure or from the heart, has its own story, its own peculiar way of getting written.”
“Anyone is able to change themself, and sometimes changing yourself can change everything to anyone around you”
Source: your life can be changed.: the true guide to become a change maker!
“Anyone is capable of anything (will plus belief is ability) if they themselves create the opportune moment and incentive. Heaven gives no genius to disbelievers and no vengeance worse than the body denied.”
“Anyone is capable of going to Heaven. Heaven is our home. People ask me about death and whether I look forward to it and I answer, 'Of course', because I am going home. Dying is not the end, it is just the beginning. Death is a continuation of life. This is the meaning of eternal life; it is where our soul goes to God, to be in the presence of God, to see God, to speak to God, to continue loving Him with greater love because in Heaven we shall be able to love Him with our whole heart and our soul because we only surrender our body in death - our heart and our soul live forever. When we die we are going to be with God, and all those we have known who have gone before us: our family and our friends will be there waiting for us. Heaven must be a beautiful place.”
Source: A Simple Path
“Anyone is free to think it’s their birthright to write you off. But no one can truly hold you back from living with the conviction that your best is yet to come. That’s the awesome power of Faith. It’s your birthright, claim it!”
“Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.”
Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].
“Anyone know any long-term couples living three time zones apart?”
“Anyone know if the shuttles to Hell will have Wifi? Asking for a friend.”
“anyone know where Kell is?" "Sleeping," Vin said. "He came in late last night, and hasn't gotten up yet." Ham grunted, taking a bite of baywrap. "Dox?" "In his room on the third floor," Vin said. "He got up early, came down to get something to eat, and went back upstairs." ... Ham raised an eyebrow. "You always keep track of where everyone is like that?" "Yes.”
“Anyone leading a violent rebellion must be prepared to make an honest assessment regarding the possible casualties to a minority population confronting a well-armed, wealthy majority with a fanatical right wing that would delight in exterminating thousands of black men, women and children.”
Source: Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
“anyone lived in a pretty how town
(with up so floating many bells down)
spring summer autumn winter
he sang his didn't he danced his did.”
“anyone lived in a pretty how town
(with up so floating many bells down)
spring summer autumn winter
he sang his didn't he danced his did
Women and men(both little and small)
cared for anyone not at all
they sowed their isn't they reaped their same
sun moon stars rain
children guessed(but only a few
and down they forgot as up they grew
autumn winter spring summer)
that noone loved him more by more
when by now and tree by leaf
she laughed his joy she cried his grief
bird by snow and stir by still
anyone's any was all to her
someones married their everyones
laughed their cryings and did their dance
(sleep wake hope and then)they
said their nevers they slept their dream
stars rain sun moon
(and only the snow can begin to explain
how children are apt to forget to remember
with up so floating many bells down)
one day anyone died i guess
(and noone stooped to kiss his face)
busy folk buried them side by side
little by little and was by was
all by all and deep by deep
and more by more they dream their sleep
noone and anyone earth by april
wish by spirit and if by yes.
Women and men (both dong and ding)
summer autumn winter spring
reaped their sowing and went their came
sun moon stars rain”
Source: Selected poems
“Anyone living alone has to get things down to a system--know where things are and what the next move is going to be. Chores are easier if forethought is given to them and they are looked upon as little pleasures to perform instead of inconveniences that steal time and try the patience.”
Source: One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
“Anyone living in Los Angeles who has opposable thumbs is required to write a screenplay.”
Source: Write Great Fiction - Plot & Structure
“Anyone living in Los Angeles who says they don't need a psychiatrist, needs a psychiatrist.”
“Anyone living, especially your peers, is a threat. You're judging them, they're judging you. This sort of criticism is as close to human nature as you can get. That can be a good thing sometimes. Jealously, rancor, competition, those can be good things in art. But it mostly puts you in a dangerous and disadvantageous position, and one that just takes away from you so much.”
“Anyone look back at their high school career and just shudder at what you got away with and didn't die?”
“Anyone looking at him would have seen immediately that this was a man who paid absolutely no attention to the phenomenon of clothing. He wore what he wore strictly because he had no choice but to put something on when dealing with other people, as if he were hostile to the idea of wearing clothes at all.”
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“Anyone looking back at the log later, trying to piece together a mystery, would find nothing but times and dry entries. It was a lazy Sunday. What made it meaningful were not the facts or details, but the imperceptibles. Inner life. The smell of the beach grass and the feel of sand on a bathroom floor when changing out of a swimsuit. The heat of American summer. Line ten of the log read simply: 10:22 Condor ate second breakfast. It couldn’t capture the perfect toasting of the onion bagel or the saltiness of the fish in contrast with the thickness of cream cheese. It was time lost in a book—a journey of imagination, transportation—which to others simply looks like sitting or lying stomach-down on the rug in front of a summertime fire, legs bent at the knees, up ninety degrees, kicking absently, feet languid in the air.”
Source: Before the Fall
“Anyone looking to follow in the footsteps of Pollock, Rothko, or Mondrian is out of luck. Pollock was not interested in painting nature. He was not interested in the world or in reality itself. Rather, he painted himself, as all Modern artists must do. Imitation is a failure of self-expression. Imitation is treason, for every act of imitation looks to the past. Imitation also implies hierarchy, for a man must choose who to imitate. If he claims to imitate no one, though, he may claim success in all that he undertakes, for he has no standard outside himself by which his work can be judged.”
Source: Love What Lasts: How to Save Your Soul from Mediocrity
“Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands.”
“Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.”
“ANYONE may become a revealer of Truth who lives in close contact with the indwelling God.”
Source: How to Change Your Life: An Inspirational, Life-Changing Classic from the Ernest Holmes Library
“Anyone may fairly seek his own advantage, but no one has a right to do so at another's expense.”
“Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.”
Source: Mr. Darcy's Daughters: A Novel
“Anyone might become homosexual after seeing Glenda Jackson naked.”
“Anyone must be mainly ignorant or thoughtless, who is surprised at everything he sees; or wonderfully conceited who expects everything to conform to his standard of propriety.”
Source: Lectures on the English Comic Writers. By William Hazlitt. Third edition. Edited by his son [William Hazlitt the Younger].
“Anyone must remember that dad left when I was 3 years old. Mom and I lived out of the limelight. We lived a totally different life.”
“Anyone need advice on making the transition from 5.12 to 5.11?”
“Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.”
“Anyone not busy learning is busy dying.”
Source: How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets