Jean Sibelius
“Pay no attention to what the critics say… Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!”
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Estee Lauder
“Touch your customer, and you’re halfway there.”
Susan J. Bissonette
“An optimist is the human personification of spring.”
Martha Burgess
“Live up to your potential instead of imitating someone else’s.”
William Inge
“The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.”
Konstantin Stanislavsky
“Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and shortened period of mental assimilation.”
Joan Klempner
“To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.”
Senator Patrick Leahy
“You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.”
Robin Green
“I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight.”
Poul Anderson
“I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.”
Lenin
“A lie told often enough becomes the truth.”
Leo J. Burke
“People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one.”
Frank Westheimer
“A month in the laboratory can often save an hour in the library.”
Denis Watley
“The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can …
J. G. C. Brainard
“Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.”
Emil Cioran
“What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?”
Captain Lawrence Oates
“I am just going outside and may be some time.”
Dolores Huerta
“If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?”
Adlai Stevenson I
“Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.”
Abigail Adams
“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”
Vernon Sanders Law
“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.”
Segal’s Law
“A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.”
Jean Nidetch
“It’s choice – not chance – that determines your destiny.”
Cathy Ladman
“My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years.”
Eric Gibson
“Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism.”
George Fabricius
“Death comes to all/ But great achievements raise a monument/ Which shall endure until the sun grows old.”
From “Taxi”
“The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel.”
Georg W. Hegel
“Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable.”
Irving Wallace
“To be one’s self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.”
Mark B. Cohen
“Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.”
Christina Petrowsky
“Autumn is the bite of the harvest apple.”
Noah Porter
“Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.”
Alice Kahn
“For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.”
Scipione Alberti
“Secret thoughts and open countenance will go safely over the whole world.”
John M. Ford
“We’re not lost. We’re locationally challenged.”
Elizabeth I
“All my possessions for a moment of time.”
William Gibson
“The future is here. It’s just not widely distributed yet.”
Arnold Glasgow
“Make your life a mission – not an intermission.”
Shana Alexander
“We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.”
Roger Allen
“In case you’re worried about what’s going to become of the younger generation, it’s going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.”