When I feel good about myself, things start happening for myself. When you look up, you go up.
HERSCHEL WALKERYale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.
More Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. Quotes
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
EMILY BRONTE -
To separate man and woman at school, at work, at meetings, in short, to separate them at life, is the affair of perverted and fusty minds! Where there is separation, there is excessive primitiveness!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN -
With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.
WAYNE DYER -
Unless you’re willing to fight and refight the same battles until you go blue in the face, drive the people you work with nuts going over every detail to make certain you’ve got it right, and then take hit after unfair hit accusing you of bias, there’s no use even trying.
BILL MOYERS -
I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you’ve always lived.)
BRET EASTON ELLIS -
The audience is your first collaborator with the material. If that makes sense.
BARON VAUGHN -
Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
HERODOTUS -
It don’t matter what competition it is. I make it all look easy.
ADRIEN BRONER -
People who talk well but do nothing are like musical instruments; the sound is all they have to offer.
DIOGENES -
For me, it is OK as long as I can breathe, as long as my heart is pumping, as long as I can express myself.
AI WEIWEI -
If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
JANIS JOPLIN -
Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person.
VERNON HOWARD -
Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
ELBERT HUBBARD -
When we get to the end of ourselves, we get to the beginning of God.
ALAN REDPATH -
Habits grow from obtaining knowledge, attitude and skills.
BILL CAPODAGLI