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“One trouble with growing old is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure, who didn't amount to much when he was your age.”

Age Growing Trouble Figures Amount Historical Growing Old Historical Figure

Author:E. W. Howe

“A man may perform astonishing feats and comprehend a vast amount of knowledge, and yet have no understanding of himself. But suffering directs a man to look within. If it succeeds, then there, within him, is the beginning of his learning.”

Ifs Men Looks May Suffering Understanding Amount Succeed Astonishing Feats

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Over the span of man's history, although a phenomenal amount of education, persuasion, indoctrination and incantation have been devoted to the effort, ordinary people have never been quite persuaded that toil is as agreeable as its alternatives. Thus to take increased well-being partly in the form of more goods and partly in the form of more leisure is unquestionably rational.”

People Men Wells Has Beens Form Effort Amount Ordinary Rational Alternatives Well Being Goods Leisure Devoted Toil Persuasion Ordinary People Phenomenal Indoctrination

Book:The affluent society

Source: The affluent society

“When you regularly take continuous action toward your most important goals, you activate the Momentum Principle of success. This principle says that although it may take tremendous amounts of energy to overcome inertia and get started initially, it then takes far less energy to keep going.”

May Important Action Energy Goal Principles Amount Overcoming Keep Going Momentum Inertia Activate

Book:Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

Source: Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

“Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to. But this is not to say that because we have got used to something demonstrably less legible than something else would be if we could get used to it, we should make no effort to scrap the existing thing. This was done by the Florentines and Romans of the fifteenth century; it requires simply good sense in the originators & good will in the rest of us.”

Ifs Should Done Would Be Used Effort Practice Century Amount Accustomed Good Will Good Sense Scrap Legibility

Author:Eric Gill

“The only crying shame about it is, when good things happen to you, you run short of time. It takes the same amount of time, however, to tell people, 'It's good to see you again. I'm sorry we only have a minute to talk,' as it does to say, 'I don't have time to talk with you' period.”

People Doe Happens Running Minutes Cry Amount Periods Shame Good Things Sorry Things Happen I'm Sorry You Again

Author:Barbara Mandrell

“I have never been a girlie girl and have always been a boys' girl with an equal amount of friends who were boys and girls.”

Girl Boys Amount Equal Boy And Girl Boy Girl

Author:Anushka Sharma

“In the Seventies and Eighties we all had our fun, and now and then we went really too far. But, ultimately, it required a certain amount of clear thinking, a lot of hard work and good make-up to be accepted as a freak.”

Thinking Hard Certain Fun Clear Hard Work Amount Accepted Freak Now And Then Seventies Eighty Clear Thinking

Author:Grace Jones

“We spend so much of our passion on our first love. I'm not convinced that it-passion-is one of those things that you have an endless amount of-like happiness or sadness. I could be happy all day. I could be sad all day. But I'm not so sure I'll ever love like that again.”

Firsts Passion Sadness Amount Convinced Endless First Love

Author:Laura Miller

“We have reached a crossroads in human evolution where the only road which leads forward is towards a common passion. . . To continue to place our hopes in a social order achieved by external violence would simply amount to our giving up all hope of carrying the Spirit of the Earth to its limits.”

Giving Humans Earth Spirit Order Passion Social Common Violence Evolution Amount Limits Giving Up Crossroads Social Order Human Evolution

Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Short stories amount for the most part to parlour tricks, party favours with built-in snappers, gadgets for including recognition and reversals”

Stories Party Amount Built Including Tricks Recognition Short Story Favour Gadgets Reversal

Author:Howard Nemerov

“It's an enormous amount of work: there are 28 separate buildings, and I work on the choice of the colors for everything. Outside colors, balcony colors, etc.. And all of this has to work together, in harmony.”

Together Choices Building Color Amount Harmony Enormous Etc Working Together Balconies

Author:John Hench

“You'll find in Africans a fantastic amount of heavy space opera and so on, going on ... which makes the colored African very, very interesting to process because he doesn't know why he goes through all these dances ... and why he feels so barbarous.”

Knows Feels Process Space Interesting Amount Heavy Fantastic Opera Very Interesting

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“In North Africa they had the Arab with the gun and whip, but he could force people to do things ... and he accomplished a tremendous amount of extermination, but he certainly didn't advance that civilization very much.”

People Force Amount Civilization Gun Accomplished Whips Extermination North Africa

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“There are different kinds of motivation, and the kind matters more than the amount.”

Kind Different Matter Motivation Amount Different Kinds

Book:The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and

Source: The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and

“It was a movie [The Railway Man] that stayed with me a long time. It's still one of the things I'm most proud of. I got to know the man that I was playing and unfortunately he passed away just before the movie came out. It's one that meant a huge amount to me, and one that I'm particularly proud of.”

Knows Men Long Stills He Man Huge Amount Proud Long Time Passed Away Railway

Author:Jeremy Irvine

“Especially for people who are unknown, it's easier to get a TV show because you don't have to put a certain amount of people in movie theaters for a box office weekend. It's really difficult to get a great lead role in some big film, if nobody knows you.”

People Ifs Knows Shows Bigs Film Certain Difficult Roles Tvs Amount Easier Office Theater Boxes Weekend Tv Shows Nobody Knows Box Office Movie Theater

Author:Eve Hewson

“People say like, "I don't know how you do it. You must get no sleep." I actually do get the right amount of sleep every night. That's my rule. But if I'm writing until six in the morning I sleep until two in the afternoon and it's the only thing that keeps me healthy and sane.”

People Ifs Knows Writing Two Night Sleep Morning Know How Amount Healthy Six Afternoon Sane Every Night No Sleep

Author:Julie Plec

“When you add up the minutes you spend actually making a movie - the amount of time you spend actually doing your thing in front of a camera - it just isn't that much. But it's everything.”

Minutes Fronts Amount Cameras Add

Author:Norman Reedus

“You're dealing immense, acute amounts of fear, which makes the rest of life a little bit easier. You don't sweat the small stuff so much.”

Littles Stuff Bits Amount Easier Little Bit Sweat Immense Rest Of Life Small Stuff Sweat The Small Stuff

Author:Tanc Sade

“You have to guard the integrity of your soul and what you believe and have a certain amount of faith not only the country but in God that this is part of the mission.”

Believe Soul Country Certain Amount Integrity Missions Your Soul

Author:David Wolpe

“I think to always treat others as you would want to be treated yourself and treat every single person with the same amount of respect. It's not often you see it, but sometimes you meet someone who is not very nice to their peers. But when you do, it's a massive lesson in treating everybody with respect.”

Thinking Want Persons Sometimes Nice Amount Lessons Treats Treated Massive Peers Very Nice Single Person

Author:Christine Bottomley

“I have an enormous amount of respect for Nicole Kidman. She's just done so many great movies and she's been out there at the forefront of carrying films and being a movie star. On set, it really pays dividends because when you're performing with her, she knows exactly how to play it. You don't have to compensate for her in any way.”

Knows Way Done Play Film Stars Pay Amount Enormous Performing Movie Star Dividends Nicole

Author:Mark Strong

“I'm tired and it's taking an increasing amount out of me, more than I have to give physically. And that's why I want to move to Sicily and buy that little farm and raise a flock of goats and geese. I find it peaceful ... and it would be a nice way to end life.”

Way Want Giving Littles Ends Would Be Moving Nice Amount Raises Tired Peaceful Farms Flocks Goats Geese I'm Tired

Author:Tennessee Williams

“I've done an incredible amount of painters. It's an area, for me, where there's more mystery left. I've photographed so many musicians, I've been in studios so often, I know the whole process. The mystery's gone from it. I think it's important to keep mystery into our lives. There's a longing connected with it.”

Thinking Knows Important Done Whole Left Process Gone Our Lives Mystery Amount Musician Areas Longing Incredibles Studios Connected Painter

Author:Anton Corbijn

“I think I've been fortunate enough to have a fairly long career and hopefully I'm at the middle of it now. And I think I'm starting to develop a certain amount of experience and a certain amount of wisdom about kind of what really matters and what doesn't matter.”

Thinking Kind Long Matter Enough Certain Careers Middle Amount Starting Hopefully Fortunate Long Careers

Author:Peter Berg

“There's always been an incredible amount of junk music, and junk everything. Marshall McLuhan said that a medium surrounds a previous medium, and turns the previous medium into an art form. So, what was once a junk culture, like film, television surrounded it and turned it into an art form.”

Art Said Film Form Turns Culture Television Amount Incredibles Mediums Surround Junk

Author:T Bone Burnett

“You always have good shows and bad shows. People want a certain amount of each. It's just widening the market a little bit. The involvement of people at home is just broadening things.”

People Want Littles Shows Home Certain Bits Amount Little Bit Involvement

Author:Adrian Pasdar

“Until the late 1970s there'd either be only black or white in the paintings or if there were colours it would be a small amount, not a large area, and with the color separated from other colors by black or white (which is formula for Damien Hirst's successful dot paintings, incidentally).”

Ifs Would Be Black White Successful Color Painting Amount Late Areas Colour Formulas Dots Black Or White Small Amounts

Author:Matthew Collings

“I've still got Paul Scholes' shirt at home which I swapped with him once. When I was at Liverpool he was one of the players I liked most. Maybe he's not valued as much as he should be in England because of the style of football there and because he keeps a low profile. Perhaps he would have been more valued in Spain, where midfielders like him form part of the 'ideal.' Fans in Spain rate him very highly and I admire him a huge amount.”

Should Has Beens Stills Home Form Player Fans Style Football Huge Amount Lows Ideals England Rate Admire Shirts Spain Profile Liverpool Scholes Paul Scholes Midfielders

Author:Xabi Alonso

“If a creative person has a sense of humor, a sense of style and a certain amount of stubbornness, he finds a way to do what he needs to in spite of the obstacles.”

Ifs Way Needs Persons Certain Creative Style Amount Obstacles Spite Sense Of Humor Stubbornness Creative Person

Book:Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

“A lot of people have told me, 'You're not this and so can't play that,' and I can't tell you the amount of times I've been told I'm not sexy. I don't wear my sexiness overtly doesn't mean that I can't become that girl for a role. That's what I do; I become things. Use your imagination.”

People Mean I Can Play Use Girl Imagination Roles Amount Sexy That Girl Sexiness

Author:Anne Hathaway

“A good run adds a little bounce to my step. I get a certain amount of self-esteem from it.”

Littles Self Running Certain Steps Self Esteem Amount Add Esteem Bounce

Author:George W. Bush

“Success is always somebody else's opinion of you; but it doesn't amount to a damn compared to your own opinion of yourself.”

Opinion Amount Damn

Author:Jack Lemmon

“You can reach a situation where things of intelligence and refinement and culture can be considered elite, and things that are crass and ignorant can be considered to be real and of the people. And when you begin to have the mass of populus striving for something that's not worth striving for, then tremendous amounts of energy go into...the maintenance of that which is worthless.”

People Real Culture Energy Situation Amount Mass Strive Ignorant Being Real Elites Worthless Maintenance Refinement Crass

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“Apply just the right amount of force — never too much, never too little.”

Littles Force Too Much Amount

Author:Kano Jigoro

“Music is an art that goes well beyond science. Proof can be found in the huge amount of studies that have been carried out throughout the world based on music-therapy and the important results achieved.”

World Wells Has Beens Art Important Found Results Study Huge Amount Music Is Proof Therapy Music Therapy

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“Riches does not mean, having a great amount of property, but riches is self-contentment.”

Mean Doe Self Amount Property Riches Contentment

Author:Muhammad

“Marriage doesn't just happen! It takes a solid set of decisions, a huge amount of skill and enormous willpower.”

Happens Decision Huge Amount Skills Enormous Willpower

Book:The Triumphant Marriage: 100 Extremely Successful Couples Reveal Their Secrets

Source: The Triumphant Marriage: 100 Extremely Successful Couples Reveal Their Secrets

“Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.”

World Kind Seems Suffering Amount Extraordinary Explanation

Book:De Profundis: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition

Source: De Profundis: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition

“Anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's depression, bipolar illness or severe anxiety, whatever - actually has a fair amount of resilience in the sense that they've had to deal with suffering already, personal suffering.”

Suffering Deals Amount Anxiety Fairs Illness Resilience Mental Illness Severe Bipolar

Author:Kay Redfield Jamison

“There are more important things than outward appearance. No amount of makeup can cover an ugly personality.”

Important Personality Amount Important Things Appearance Ugly Makeup Outward Appearance

Author:Audrey Hepburn

“There are some people who seem to think that the way you reduce the cost of living in this country is for the state to spend more and more taxpayers' money. It is as if somehow you measure the compassion of the government by the amount of other people's money it can spend.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Country States Seems Government Compassion Amount Cost Taxpayers Cost Of Living

Author:David Cameron

“Everybody has a finite amount of energy and limits to what he or she can do. Listen to your body. It will talk to you if you're willing to listen.”

Ifs Body Energy Can Do Willing Amount Limits Your Body Finite

Book:Never Say Never: 10 Lessons to Turn You Can't Into Yes I Can

Source: Never Say Never: 10 Lessons to Turn You Can't Into Yes I Can

“Our philosophy about activity and our attitude about hard work will affect the quality of our lives. What we decide about the rightful ratio of labor to rest will establish a certain work ethic. That work ethic - our attitude about the amount of labor we are willing to commit to future fortune - will determine how substantial or how meager that fortune turns out to be.”

Hard Philosophy Certain Turns Attitude Quality Our Lives Willing Hard Work Amount Activity Ethics Labor Fortune Determine Commit Work Ethic Ratios

Author:Jim Rohn

“Income and wealth inequality have reached obscene levels, the threat of climate change is more frightening than ever, and the billionaire class is now allowed to spend unlimited amounts of money to buy the candidate they want. And it is up to us to stand up and fight back. If we stand together, there is no limit to what we can accomplish.”

“Everything written, if it has anything in it, will offend someone, and if the mere taking of offence was to amount to a licence to kill the offender, well the world would be sadly underpopulated of novelists, columnists, bloggers, and the writers of editorials.”

Ifs World Wells Would Be Written Amount Mere Novelists Offence Editorials Offenders Bloggers Columnists

Author:Rex Murphy

“Humility is the virtue that requires the greatest amount of effort.”

Effort Virtue Humility Amount

Author:Rose Philippine Duchesne

“It is our daily duty to consider that in all circumstances of life, pleasurable, painful, or otherwise, the conduct of others, especially of those in the same house; and that, as life is made up, for the most part, not of great occasions, but of small everyday moments, it is the giving to those moments their greatest amount of peace, pleasantness, and security, that contributes most to the sum of human good. Be peaceable. Be cheerful. Be true.”

Giving Humans Made Moments Life Is House Security Duty Amount Circumstances Everyday Painful Being True Occasions Cheerful Everyday Moments

Author:Leigh Hunt

“Unless you devote an enormous amount of time to anticipating the future, you won't have any future.”

Amount Enormous Anticipating The Future

Author:Ron Chernow

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