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ambition mind firsts
Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of our blindness. Charles Caleb Colton
ambition errors suffering
The blindness of bigotry, the madness of ambition, and the miscalculations of diplomacy seek their victims principally amongst the innocent and the unoffending. The cottage is sure to suffer for every error of the court, the cabinet, or the camp. When error sits in the seat of power and of authority, and is generated in high places, it may be compared to that torrent which originates indeed in the mountain, but commits its devastation in the vale.
ambition son men
All who have been great and good without Christianity would have been much greater and better with it. If there be, amongst the sons of men, a single exception to this maxim, the divine Socrates may be allowed to put in the strongest claim. It was his high ambition to deserve, by deeds, not by creeds, an unrevealed heaven, and by works, not by faith, to enter an unpromised land.
ambition perception prudent
It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be. Alan Hansen
ambition want plus
We have our ambition for the future and God. And thus we put God as a plus sign after something else we want. Aiden Wilson Tozer
ambition goal quality
There seems to be a hypnotic quality to ambition and speed, so that you feel that you are standing still just because you want to go so fast. You might actually be getting close to your goal. Chogyam Trungpa
ambition successful men
You can have ambition But not too much You should aim to be successful But not too successful Otherwise you will threaten the man Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
ambition journey discovery
I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery. David Morrissey
ambition simple thinking
I have very simple ambitions. If I can just not be boring, I'm ahead of the game. It's hard in television. I think you get enormous reward from the audience. Just give them something they didn't see coming, and you get enormous points. David Nevins
culture illusion illusion-of-time
We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time Alan Watts
culture cult
All culture must have arisen from cult. Alan Moore
culture victimhood not-interested
There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood. Alan Ball
culture worship christ
Worship is no longer worship when it reflects the culture around us more than the Christ within us.
culture initiative meetings
OneBeat is one of the greatest initiatives in advancing the meeting of cultures worldwide. Dave Douglas
culture biology conditions
Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better. C. J. Cherryh
culture glimpse heritage hosts india next rich
The performances will give a glimpse of the rich culture and heritage of India as the next hosts of the Games. Suresh Kalmadi
culture delay delivering fund ministry promise
We are at our wit's end and most embarrassed by this extraordinary delay on the part of the Culture Ministry in delivering on a promise to fund the event.
culture host issues
There are big culture issues in these films, contemporaneous issues, and he's about as issue-oriented as a host can be.
delayed talking
We're talking about an attitude. Delayed gratification is there, planning, be able to give up something now to get something later.
delayed management west
We actually delayed the encore so West and his management could see what was going on.
delayed joining otherwise process russia
The process of Russia joining the WTO should only be favorable. There are no alternatives ... Otherwise it will be delayed for the long term.
delayed doctor great home needed sacrifice
She delayed going back to her doctor when she needed to. She had to go home immediately and she had jeopardized her health. She made a great sacrifice for us.
delayed people trips
Most people . . . did not find it invasive, and did not find it delayed their trips unnecessarily.
delayed driving given last point ready situation summer supply
Many of them, given the supply situation last year, delayed maintenance. So we're at the point right now where they had to do it to get ready for summer driving season.
delayed quarter recent timetable year
We're at least a quarter of a year delayed from what the most recent timetable was. John Pilger
delayed hope justice time
There is a time when justice delayed can become justice denied. I hope this does not become that kind of situation.
delayed effects fiscal government including increase january overall percent positive rate reform until wait
The delayed e-VAT detracted from the overall credibility of the fiscal reform program, and we will wait until the e-VAT is implemented fully, including the rate increase from 10 percent to 12 percent scheduled for January 2006, before considering its positive effects on government revenues." ()
educational keys doors
A very little key will open a very heavy door. Charles Dickens
education teaching brain
Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.
education book men
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
education mind armor
The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
education teaching knowledge
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
education prayer men
An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate. Charles Stanley
educational clothes giving
Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to cook, how to make clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely fundamental things of life.
education learning buddhism
A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
education country government
The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country. Al Sharpton
groups camps
I have never believed in being part of any one group or camp. Akshay Kumar
groups care littles
In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward. David Shields
groups local seeing shift sponsors state structured supported
We are seeing a shift from well-organized, local groups supported by state sponsors to more far-flung and loosely structured webs of terror,
groups key names solid stocks
There are some groups of stocks that always key off of one another. The solid names are the solid areas.
groups sometimes individual
Of all the groups that sometimes claim to own your life, family is the hardest to defend your individual sovereignty from. L. Neil Smith
groups money people pick stakes whenever
Whenever there's money involved, they pick groups of people to test. The stakes are higher.
groups join money motivated motivation possible raise rights surprise suspicious wanting
Ultimately, it wouldn't surprise me if this is a way for two different groups to raise as much money as possible and then join forces. We are suspicious of their motivation because we know they are motivated by wanting to take away the rights of our families.
groups incentives
We're going after the incentives market, and we're going to be going after the smaller, upscale groups business.
groups iraq mass saddam terrorists war whom
So to recap: we may or may not be going to war with Iraq because Saddam may or may not have weapons of mass destruction, which he may or may not use, or pass to other terrorists groups with whom he may or may not have links. Rory Bremner
hard-times roots facts
Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.
hard-times facts want
Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.
hard-work easy-work problem
Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve. Alan Perlis
hard-work jealous thinking
I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that. Alain Prost
hard-work acting joyful
Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting. Al Pacino
hard-work actors today
I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it.
hard-work mind lasts
The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do you begin? I almost have to have a scene in my mind. David McCullough
hard-work mean pursuit-of-happiness
When the founders wrote about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they didn't mean longer vacations and more comfortable hammocks. They meant the pursuit of learning. The pursuit of improvement and excellence. In hard work is happiness.
hard-work thinking focus
Hail, Caesar! is about, in my opinion - I love that movie - but I think it's about the idea that as glamorous as the business is, and for as much hoopla that surrounds moviemaking, ultimately it's just a job. If you focus on it, you can do it really well, and it takes a lot of hard work. David Krumholtz
regardless whatever
Regardless of whatever I do, I know what my purpose is: to make a difference in people's lives. Tim Tebow
regardless
Singing is my passion, regardless of anything else that I've ever done. That's the one thing that no one can ever take away from me is my voice, and that is what I really want to do. Alex Newell
regardless whether
No one should be doing this to another person, regardless of whether they're students.
regardless
I didn't want to get better any more just because I was out of the rotation. I wanted to get better regardless of where I was.
regardless supposed
Regardless of any deviations, it was clear I was supposed to end up in math and physics. Edward Witten
regardless running top whether
I will do my best, regardless of whether I would be running at the top or at the bottom. Ichiro Ozawa
regardless
Regardless of what we look like on the outside, genetically, on the inside, everyone is an African. Donald Johanson
regardless
Regardless of the (earnings) metric, they're on the right path.
regardless
That's how we've been all year. We don't panic, regardless of the situation. Ben Wallace
stress past reality
In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagines past
stress use cash
Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this. Alan Greenspan
stressed christ crosses
...popular fundamentalist theology has emphasized the utility of the cross rather than the beauty of the One who died on it... The "work" of Christ has been stressed until it has eclipsed the person of Christ.
stress fire setting
Nothing relieves stress like setting things on fire. Chris Cannon
stress commitment people
Most of the stress people experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept. David Allen
stress exercise expression
Stress such as you experience in exercise is what creates builds focus, strength, and the capability for expanded expression; and the same is true for any kind of performance.
stress people creative
If we didn't have any stress, we'd never grow and you'd probably wouldn't test your mettle and you'd probably wouldn't come up with a lot of creative stuff that people come up with by being somewhat on the edge.
stress people guy
I felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you're a guy who generates money, people have a vested interested in controlling you. Dave Chappelle
stressed-out wish should
I'm a worrywart, so I'm always a bit more stressed out than I should be or wish I was. David Nail
succeed endeavor assurance
In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed. Akhenaton
succeed flexible
Those who are flexible in thought, will inevitably succeed. David Cunliffe
succeed way products
The only way anyone's going to succeed is to build the product. Barry Diller
succeed revolution
When is revolution legal? When it succeeds! August Strindberg
succeed able knows
To succeed, you must be able to concentrate, and to know what to concentrate on. Denise McCluggage
succeed want our-family
You want everyone to succeed in your family. Elizabeth Olsen
succeed
Always present yourself as a woman who expects to succeed. Barbara Taylor Bradford
succeed failing prerequisites
Failure is an absolute prerequisite for success. You learn to succeed by failing. Brian Tracy
succeed firsts ifs
If at first you don't succeed, C4 Jamie Hyneman
successful mislead-us watches
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.
success pride winning
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.
success achievement conceit
Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.
success hate men
For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
success kissing hands
To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if clouded by defeat, temerity. When Nelson fought his battle in the Sound, it was the result alone that decided whether he was to kiss a hand at court or a rod at a court-martial.
success congratulations adversity
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
success achievement silence
Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
successful causes flourishing
The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes. Charles Sturt
success eggs laziness
The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already. Charles Spurgeon
suggested watch
We got to watch a lot of their match. We suggested that we go around them, but that didn't go over real well.
suggestions compromise never-compromise
The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising. Arthur Bloch
suggest theories understanding
There are theories that suggest that. But we need a much better understanding before we can know about things. Fred Taylor
suggest
What we suggest is that they look at ones already in place to see if they are necessary.
suggest
There is nothing to suggest that would be the trend.
suggest
Irrigation is being done on the (town hall) mall, so I would suggest French's Common,
suggestion
You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it. Mary Wesley
suggestions liberalism ten-commandments
If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions. Malcolm Bradbury
suggestions birth slave
From our birth to our death we are all the slaves of suggestion.
values
We value some lives more than others. Charlize Theron
values
When you treat your body like a Bentley, you value yourself and you start to look at your body differently. Demi Lovato
values
Nobody values your time but YOU.
values
We thought we could get it out before May 1, but because the values for some of the neighborhoods were out of whack, we had to go back and fine-tune those.
values wikileaks
The values of WikiLeaks have been completely overshadowed by Julian Assange.
values
have the same values and the same interests.
values
We need to know as much as we can and as much as he will tell us about his values and beliefs, Dick Durbin
values
How do you measure your value? Loretta Lynn
values
I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to 'truthiness.' John Hodgman
whose
I remember certain lines and whose they are. Warren Zevon
whose withhold
When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.
work quality may
Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.
work apology giving
Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology. Alan Clark
work mean doing-nothing
If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means. Alan Bennett
work sleep thinking
A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves. Alan Ayckbourn
work play able
You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way. Al Kaline
work people kind
Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable. Akio Morita
workout training cardio
I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment. Chloe Sevigny
work-out effort feels
If I put forth a legitimate effort, then I feel like, if that doesn't work out, that's all I can do.
work-out levels mail
I always take a relationship to the next level. If that works out, I take it to the next level after that, until I finally reach that level when it becomes absolutely necessary for me to leave.