I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.
First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.
Barry Manilow
There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.
General George Patton
We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.
John B. S. Haldane
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.
John Malkovich
I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?
Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.
Dale Evans
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
Karl Marx
A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.
My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.
Daniel Goleman
A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
James Joyce
Take calculated risks. This is quite different from being rash.
The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence.
The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
Maya Angelou
Always do more than is required of you.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
Miguel de Cervantes
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
Accept the challenges, so you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies.
Lionel Blue
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
Thomas Hobbes
If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.
Arthur Ashe
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
Henry Drummond
I was very pleased that the positive things about me and my game outshone the aggressive style of play I use. I would never tone that down, because I believe in that style of play, and I believe that you can play rough on the court and still be a good sport.
Sue Wicks
War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.
Sophocles
The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.
William Osler
If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
Rand Paul
There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter -- loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.
I've done an informal, anecdotal survey about marriage, and I've found no evidence that it brings happiness.
Mary McCormack
Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.
It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day however, the spectators decide the rates of pay - by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on sports TV programmes.
Angela Merkel
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.
Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.
Suzanne Fields
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road.
Nicholas Negroponte
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle.
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