I used to tell my graduate students at Stanford, 'Don't worry about what job you have to pick because your job picks… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
Being an artist is two things. You accumulate experience and time, and if you have something that's interesting, you have to be… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have… — Sanford I. Weill Copy Share Image
We must remember that we do not observe nature as it actually exists, but nature exposed to our methods of perception. The… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I want to be a multi-time champion. I want to be a multiple division champion. I still have a lot of goals;… — Urijah Faber Copy Share Image
Having a persistent nature is part of being human. Otherwise we wouldn't be able to speak of knowing another person, or loving… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
There is a persistent funny form of suspicion in most of us that we can solve our own problems and be the… — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share Image
But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I often feel trapped. I often feel like I'm trying to escape some trap, be it a way of thinking, a compulsion,… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
The purpose of affirmative action is to give our nation a way to finally address the systemic exclusion of individuals of talent… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain - he is inspired by it. The persistent winner is not discouraged… — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
There is nothing that dies so hard and rallies so often as intolerance. The vices and passions which it summons to its… — William Borah Copy Share Image
This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. Our most persistent and spectacular efforts are concerned not with the preservation of… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The single largest frustration in the massage field is the waste of resources and training resulting from high attrition among those who… — Bob Benson Copy Share Image
Tzu Chang asked Confucius about jen. Confucius said, "If you can practice these five things with all the people, you can be… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Once you assume your right to interfere in other people's problems they become in some ways more of a worry than your… — Marion Milner Copy Share Image
It is only to the finest natures that age gives an added beauty and distinction; for the most persistent self has then… — Karl Blind Copy Share Image
The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
When you actively engage in gradually refining yourself, you retreat from your lazy ways of covering yourself or making excuses. Instead of… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The world is a complex, interconnected, finite, ecological - social - psychological - economic system. We treat it as if it were… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
Life's most persistent and urgent question is: what are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We on our part will stick to our independent foreign policy of peace, acting forever as a strong defender of world peace… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Needless to say, they refused to submit to the Empire, conducting such a persistent guerrilla war that the Romans gave up hope… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You must bring every particle of your energy, unanswerable resolution, your best efforts, your persistent industry to your task or the best… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Passion and marriage are essentially irreconcilable. Their origins and their ends make them mutually exclusive. Their co-existence in our midst constantly raises… — Denis de Rougemont Copy Share Image
The passage from the realm of morals into the realm of religion is but a step; for the energy that we have… — Frank C. Lockwood Copy Share Image
Armenians, as a people that have survived the Genocide, have a moral duty towards mankind and history in the prevention of genocides.… — Serzh Sargsyan Copy Share Image
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the creative light of altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for-first, a little, and badly. Then, bit by… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persistent prayer - can… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Lawyering is very individualistic. There are lawyers who are going to be that persistent birddog, they're never going to give up on… — Lynne Stewart Copy Share Image
We must eliminate all nuclear weapons in order to eliminate the grave risk they pose to our world. This will require persistent… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
In these days of political, personal and economic disintegration, music is not a luxury, it's a necessity; not simply because it is… — Robert Shaw Copy Share Image
Close both eyes see with the other one. Then we are no longer saddled by the burden of our persistent judgments our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Art demands persistent work, work in spite of everything, and continuous observations. By persistent, I mean not only continuous work, but also… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
I can't stand quitters. My mother is a very strong, determined woman. I was peeling onions when I was seven, but I… — Estelle Copy Share Image
It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of… — Baroness Orczy Copy Share Image
I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
