The most important characteristic of an organism is that capacity for internal self-renewal known as health. There are two organisms whose processes… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I can't do the movies like I do painting because I am really more of a sort of dilettante or something. I… — Red Grooms Copy Share Image
Our scientists all the more occupy advanced positions in the development of world science. By the example of their successes in the… — Vyacheslav Molotov Copy Share Image
Now a confirmed atheist, I've become convinced of the enormous contribution that Christian evangelism makes in Africa: sharply distinct from the work… — Matthew Parris Copy Share Image
“You go on trying and trying, and you make many decisions and you take many vows,but nothing happens -- you remain the… — Osho Copy Share Image
To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I know what we can control, we can control our effort and we can control our approach. We do what we're supposed… — Andy Kennedy Copy Share Image
One can understand the politics of that at this moment. It's an effort to buy time for a constituency of workers who… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
To really be of benefit to others as the Buddha always taught, we ourselves must first get out of the swamp. One… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
It's a lot harder to keep your cool than it is to lose it. That's on any work ethic. Even if you're… — Hank Williams III Copy Share Image
To permit every lawless capitalist, every law-defying corporation, to take any action, no matter how iniquitous, in the effort to secure an… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I would like here to announce to all Indonesian Muslims that I, as a private citizen, am prepared to take charge of… — Suharto Copy Share Image
Kissinger's monopoly on this historical record has driven many scholars to distraction. Groups of lawyers, scholars, journalists and archivists have used pronunciamento,… — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
The central part of the state is more remote and less scenic, and there's a huge agricultural belt that stretches from the… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
The last thing I’d ever subscribe to are fashion rules. However, I do think that you should put effort into what you… — Sophia Amoruso Copy Share Image
Dictatorship played a decisive role in the North's successful effort to maintain the Union by force of arms...one man was the government… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
To be disciplined does not mean being silent, abstaining, or doing only what one thinks one may undertake without risk; it is… — Ferdinand Foch Copy Share Image
We are thankful for these and all the good things of life. We recognize that they are a part of our common… — J. S. Woodsworth Copy Share Image
It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I myself incline to drift, to accept a lesser situation rather than strive for a greater, and yet, I know that character… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Most bodybuilders only have a hazy notion of what they want to look like. They do not say, 'I am going to… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
everything is too important ever to be entrusted to professional experts, because every organization of such professionals and every established social organization… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If we want to do away with the injustice to gays it will not be done because we get rid of the… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
In the past, liberals have competed to see who could shout the loudest to shut down the banks, ridicule success, and penalize… — Richard Grenell Copy Share Image
It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
The White House was designed by Hoban, a noted Irish-American architect, and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Stem cells are probably going to be extremely useful. But it isn't a given, and even if it were, I don't think… — Joseph Murray Copy Share Image
“The value of doing something does not lie in the ease or difficulty, the probability or improbability of its achievement, but in… — Helen Nearing Copy Share Image
“I took off my sweatshirt and dropped it on the grass and set off around the track. As soon as I started… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
I believe that the Constitution is not hostile to the idea that national problems can be solved at the national level through… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Painting, by its nature, cannot provide an object of simultaneous collective reception... as film is able to do today... And while efforts… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I get to focus on something I love to do 24-hours a day rather than trying to squeeze it in between midterms,… — Hoodie Allen Copy Share Image
Translators have to prove to themselves as to others that they are in control of what they do; that they do not… — Mona Baker Copy Share Image
With sports and games, you have fun despite working very hard, even despite failing repeatedly. Even the fun of a night out,… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Almost nothing worthwhile is easy, and it's hard to just jump in and be good at something difficult right off the bat...… — John Gruber Copy Share Image
My research and practice indicates that people need to be doing work they love and to love the work they do. They… — Stewart D. Friedman Copy Share Image
