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“If investing is entertaining, if you're having fun, you're probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.”

Ifs Fun Investment Investing Boring Having Fun Investors Entertaining Investing Money

“Englishmen are so odd. They are like a nest of Chinese boxes. It takes a very long time to get to the centre of them. When one gets there the result is unrewarding, but the process is instructive and entertaining.”

Long Process Results Long Time Boxes Chinese Odd Entertaining Centre Nests Englishmen

Book:gilt-edged bonds

Source: gilt-edged bonds

“Young people must learn that none of the exciting and entertaining fun things are worth it if they take you off the path that will lead you back home to your Heavenly Father.”

People Ifs Home Young Father Fun Learning Path Exciting Heavenly Entertaining Worth It Heavenly Father Back Home Fun Things

Author:William R. Bradford

“Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.”

People Force Growth Cities Artificial Entertaining City Life Talkative

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The decathlon is nine Mickey Mouse events and the 1500 metres.”

Inspirational Running Funny Events Nine Entertaining Mice Athletics Mickey Bloopers Decathlon

Author:Steve Ovett

“When hosting a party, move any clutter from the space where you're entertaining.”

Moving Space Party Entertaining Clutter

Author:Pippa Middleton

“Rappers spit rhymes that are mostly illegal, MC's spit rhymes to uplift their people.”

People Hip Hop Rap Uplifting Illegal Rapper Entertaining Rhyme Entertainers Spit Rhyming Rap Song Emcee

Author:KRS-One

“So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially.”

World Want Hard Reality Artist Successful Being True Entertaining

Author:Antoine Fuqua

“We recognize ourselves in Westerns, ... I believe the Western can orchestrate moments around reality. The reality can be as entertaining to us as the lie.”

Believe Moments Reality Lying I Believe Western Entertaining

Author:Kevin Costner

“What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.”

Important Shows Games Winning Audience Week Losing Singing Entertaining Winning And Losing Winning Losing

Author:Dwayne Johnson

“When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that.”

Wanted Song Turns Audience Comedy Singing I Realized Nine Bus Entertaining Coming Back Captives Stand Up Comedy Singing Songs

Author:Jim Dale

“When I entertain at home, I take time and pleasure in the small details that make all the difference. Entertaining is about giving to people and sharing with them.”

People Giving Home Differences Pleasure Details Entertaining Take Time Decor Small Details

Author:Valentino Garavani

“I’d like to discover life. Quite frankly I don’t know how to be happy. I have not a clue. I only serve — and I don’t say that with any grandeur. I just serve others through entertaining. That’s when I am happy. I’m not just delighted with myself when I’m entertaining, but I’m happier than when I’m not.”

Knows Know How Entertaining Clue Delighted Grandeur How To Be Happy

Author:Elaine Stritch

“Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.”

Games Sports Music Is Entertaining Without Music

Author:Ice Cube

“What I see is trying to make sure that everybody thinks you have more than what you actually have. What’s the point if you actually don’t have it? If you don’t have it, then you don’t have it. Have what you have. Enjoy that . . . The craft is everything. Don’t be afraid of not being the wealthiest person in the room. Be the smartest person in the room. Be the slickest person in the room. Be the most creative person in the room. Be the most entertaining person in the room. Just be in the room.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Persons Enjoy Rooms Creative Crafts Entertaining Creative Person

Author:Jill Scott

“Killing Lincoln is a must-read historical thriller. Bill O'Reilly recounts the dramatic events of the spring of 1865 with such exhilarating immediacy that you will feel like you are walking the streets of Washington DC on the night that John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln. This is a hugely entertaining, heart-stopping read.”

“In Land of Milk and Money, Anthony Barcellos mines rich family history to create a full-blooded tale that readers will find insightful, rewarding, and entertaining.”

Rich Land Mines Reader Tales Insightful Milk Entertaining Family History Rich Family

Author:John Lescroart

“When you're a kid, 'Star Trek' is a slower burn. It's funny, it's entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it - which is its universal appeal, I think.”

Thinking Kids Stars Universal Appeals Maturity Entertaining

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“When I was little, I always used to like to tell stories cuz it was entertaining to people.”

People Littles Stories Used Entertaining Cuz

Author:Slick Rick

“If a book is easy and fits nicely into all your language conventions and thought forms, then you probably will not grow much from reading it. It may be entertaining, but not enlarging to your understanding. It’s the hard books that count. Raking is easy, but all you get is leaves; digging is hard, but you might find diamonds.”

Ifs May Book Hard Might Form Reading Language Grows Easy Understanding Fit Conventions Diamond Entertaining Digging

Author:Mortimer Adler

“An educated man must have a "curiosity in exploring the unfamiliar and unexpected, an open-mindedness in entertaining opposing points of view, tolerance for the ambiguity that surrounds so many important issues, and a willingness to make the best decisions he can in the face of uncertainty and doubt".”

“Some things were too hard to believe, however entertaining they might be to hear or read.”

Believe Hard Might Statistics Entertaining Hard To Believe

Author:Hal Clement

“Executive Severance, a laugh out loud comic mystery novel, epitomizes our current cultural moment in that it is born from the juxtaposition of authorial invention and technological communication innovation. Merging creative text with new electronic context, Robert K. Blechman's novel, which originally appeared as Twitter entries, can be read on a cell phone. His tweets which merge to form an entertaining novel can't be beat. Hold the phone; exalt in the mystery-engage with Blechman's story which signals the inception of a new literary art form.”

“I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.”

Writing Long Would Be Novel Rejection Slips Entertaining Fear Of Rejection

Author:Louise Brown

“There’s nothing entertaining about watching goons hurl venomous slurs at congressmen like the civil rights hero John Lewis and the openly gay Barney Frank. How curious that a mob fond of likening President Obama to Hitler knows so little about history that it doesn’t recognize its own small-scale mimicry of Kristallnacht.”

Knows Littles President Rights Hero Gay Scales Civil Rights Curious President Obama Entertaining Frank Congressman Slurs Mimicry Venomous Goons

Author:Frank Rich

“Wendy Doniger has spent decades collecting not only myths from ancient texts but stories of all kinds from novels, movies, newspapers about an old mystery: what has or hasn't happened in bed for centuries. Rich in insights about sex, lies, and personal identity, the result is entertaining, enthralling, and, yes, sexy.”

Kind Stories Lying Sex Results Novel Rich Happened Mystery Century Identity Bed Ancient Sexy Insight Myth Decades Newspapers All Kinds Entertaining Collecting Wendy Personal Identity

Author:Roberto Calasso

“The purpose of all art is to cause a deep and emotion, also one that is entertaining or pleasing. Out of the depth and entertainment comes value.”

Art Purpose Values Causes Emotion Art Is Depth Photographer Entertainment Entertaining

Author:W. Eugene Smith

“Erudite and entertaining, Max Anderson is the perfect tour guide to the world of art. The Quality Instinct is both educational and enlightening from start to finish, the thinking person's guide to museums. This is a must-read for anyone who wants to truly understand what makes a masterpiece.”

Thinking World Want Persons Art Perfect Quality Instinct Educational Guides Museums Entertaining Masterpiece Enlightening Max Erudite Thinking Person Tour Guides

Author:Daniel Silva

“Good fiction must be entertaining- but what makes fiction special- and True- is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.”

Writing Fiction Novel Special Messages Entertaining Realness

Author:Jerry B. Jenkins

“Then to have Brett come along and follow in the footsteps, it's so gratifying. I get as much enjoyment out of watching Brett play as I did of entertaining people myself.”

People Play Sports Enjoyment Entertaining Footsteps

Author:Bobby Hull

“What makes it all worthwhile is we just play for the sheer enjoyment of entertaining people and... make our families and the team we played on and the people watching, proud of what we did.”

People Play Sports Team Proud Our Family Enjoyment Worthwhile Entertaining Sheer

Author:Bobby Hull

“I'm trying to be entertaining without being mean”

Trying Mean Entertaining Being Me Being Mean

Author:Tina Brown

“Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business.”

Shows Entertaining Show Business Spontaneity Facets

Author:Chuck Barris

“And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature.”

Reason Literature Stuff Shakes Entertaining Great Literature Down Time

Author:Jerry Pournelle

“I’m self-entertaining. My dialogue is with myself.”

Self Dialogue Entertaining

Author:Michael Heizer

“I wanted to do something that was entertaining - but with a catch.”

Wanted Entertaining

Author:Luc Besson

“Clear, crisp, refreshingly sensible, and as entertaining as it is enlightening, The Abs Diet will reward its readers handsomely. There are few 'diet books' that I am willing to endorse; I endorse this one enthusiastically. If you have an abdomen, get this book!”

Ifs Book Clear Willing Reader Rewards Diets Sensible Entertaining Enlightening Crisps Abdomen

Author:David L. Katz

“Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics ... would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the idle than for occupying the mind of a philosopher.”

Mind Connections Mathematics Agree Historical Philosopher Physics Entertaining Idle Lacking Amusement

Author:Franz Karl Achard

“The Internet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhoea - massive, difficult to re-direct, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.”

Mind Difficult Source Amount Internet Computer Direct Performing Awe Massive Entertaining Elephants Herds Awe Inspiring Diarrhea Mind Boggling Diarrhoea

Author:Gene Spafford

“That makes entertaining television. That is the circus of American Idol . We go for the very, very best and the very, very worst. It's the boring people that we don't want to see on television.”

People Want Worst Television Boring Idols Entertaining Circus American Idol

Author:Nigel Lythgoe

“I love entertaining people and this is entertainment.”

People Entertainment Entertaining

Author:Jerry Bruckheimer

“Susanne Alleyn's Game of Patience is a well-crafted historical mystery, authentic in every detail. Wonderfully entertaining.”

Wells Games Mystery Historical Details Entertaining

Author:Sandra Gulland

“Autobiography of a Yogi is justifiably celebrated as one of the most entertaining and enlightening spiritual books ever written.”

Book Spiritual Written Entertaining Autobiography Enlightening Yogi Autobiography Of A Yogi

Book:50 Spiritual Classics: Timeless Wisdom From 50 Great Books of Inner Discovery, Enlightenment and Purpose

Source: 50 Spiritual Classics: Timeless Wisdom From 50 Great Books of Inner Discovery, Enlightenment and Purpose

“The novelist now usurps the chair of the educator, the pulpit of the preacher, the columns of the journalist. Yet his original purpose of entertaining may have been his highest purpose. (introduction to Gladiator, Book League Monthly, 1930)”

May Has Beens Book Purpose Highest Originals Journalist League Novelists Chairs Entertaining Preacher Introduction Columns Educator 1930s Pulpit

Author:Philip Wylie

“SHADOW PROWLER is a fresh, exuberant take on territory that will be familiar to all fans of classic high fantasy. Alexey Pehov introduces a cast of charming, quirky, unsavory, even loathesome characters in a fast-paced, entertaining adventure.”

Character Fantasy Fans Adventure Shadow Casts Familiar Classic Territory Entertaining Introducing Charming Fast Paced Quirky

Author:Kevin J. Anderson

“I have commenced my auspicious reign and am in quiet possession of the Presidential Mansion... this winter I intend to do something in the way of entertaining that shall be the admiration and talk of all Washington world.”

World Way Quiet Winter Possession Presidential Admiration Entertaining Reign Aeroplanes Mansions

Author:Julia Gardiner Tyler

“Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.”

Inspirational Funny Ten Losing Girlfriend Entertaining Athletics Bloopers

Author:Daley Thompson

“We don't have much in the way of a business strategy. Like no business plan. Which I say to torment all my friends who are VCs or MBAs. That's always entertaining. The deal is, it's a mixture of luck and persistence.”

Way Deals Plans Lucky My Friends Luck Strategy Persistence Entertaining Torment Mixtures Business Plan Business Strategy Mba

Author:Craig Newmark

“Our growing ability to eliminate the slow-moving aspects of entertainment and go hopping from one peak to another is not without cost. Stand-up comics, movie-makers and others who earn their living entertaining no longer "waste" time with setups and plot development, lest we reach for the remote and click them off our screen. The result is a loss of subtlety, anticipation and nuance and, in the process, a coarsening of our discourse.”

“There is nothing more entertaining than to have a frank talk with yourself. Few do it-frankly. Educating yourself is getting acquainted with yourself.”

Entertaining Frank Educating Yourself

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

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