Lizzie Harris's debut collection, Stop Wanting, crafts images and lines of such arresting splendor that I am very often driven to joy… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
... not mere achievement, but rather the more difficult feat of handling your life efficiently. It means to be a success as… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
My mother was the one constant in my life. When I think about my mom raising me alone when she was 20,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“When you learn to let go of the details you can’t control, the amount of time and energy you’ll be able to… — Amy Morin Copy Share Image
I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I marveled a bit at the feat Lubianka re-education. I also began to understand more clearly what was meant by rewriting history… — Walter Ciszek Copy Share Image
Chávez inadvertently made the US drug war tactics look good. Quite a feat, given the disaster which is the drug war. After… — Rory Carroll Copy Share Image
The concept of individual rights is so prodigious a feat of political thinking that few men grasp it fully - and two… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The first thing I did when I was forty years old, I put handcuffs on and I jumped off Alcatraz prison and… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
It may be that the invention of the aeroplane flying-machine will be deemed to have been of less material value to the… — Waldemar Kaempffert Copy Share Image
The frequent employment of one's will power masters all organs of movement and trains them to perform feats which otherwise would have… — George Hackenschmidt Copy Share Image
I walked out of the theater and started crying. My wife asked me, 'Why are you crying?' I said, 'Because I can't… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
I was born with God-given gifts of very talented musical ability and exceptoinal physical coordination. I always needed prodding to practice piano,… — Otto Graham Copy Share Image
A real Master is not a teacher: a real Master is an awakener. His function is totally different from a teacher; his… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
My own duty as a teacher...is not so much to interpret Beethoven, Wagner, or other masters of the past, but to give… — Antonin Dvorak Copy Share Image
Is Donald Trump a serious candidate? The reason I ask this is, if you're going to close the Internet, realize, America, what… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The Dance can, with the aid of music, rise to the heights of poetry. On the other hand, through an excess of… — August Bournonville Copy Share Image
There's always time. . .to own up to things you're ashamed of, to change them. There's always time to start. And I… — Peter Danielson Copy Share Image
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The famous names throughout history-be they heroes or villains-if they accomplished anything notable, they were passionate. Passion is what drives those who… — Andrew Williams Copy Share Image
The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
I know that history is simultaneously a bloody mess and a collection of feats so inspiring and amazing they make you proud… — A. J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
In Red Flags, Juris Jurjevics has brilliantly accomplished a feat that is becoming a major characteristic of 21st century literature: the seamless… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
In recent years, we have seen technology advance at lightning speed, allowing us to accomplish lifesaving feats never imagined before. It is… — Evan Bayh Copy Share Image
The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
There are three intellectual pursuits, and, so far as I am aware, only three, in which human beings have performed major feats… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
My father once admonished me to master the laws that govern fine writing until I could weave my words into worlds. If… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
The fact that a total of 18 musicians humbly came together to share the glory and create something this original, epic, and… — James Moore Copy Share Image
The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I consider myself an alchemist. An alchemist is basically a mystical chemist, right? And one of the great feats that alchemists used… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
Was there nought better than to enjoy? No feat which, done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures through Into… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
If critics and fanboys weren't suckers for simplistic nihilism and high-pressure marketing, Afterlife would be universally acclaimed as a visionary feat, superior… — Armond White Copy Share Image
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a… — Vijender Singh Copy Share Image
The weakest being on earth can accomplish feats of strength. The frailest urchin will ring every doorbell on the street in arctic… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The deepest and rarest kind of courage has nothing to do with feats or obstacles in the outside world; and, indeed, has… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Being born on the earth is the highest honor and greatest privilege. To be alive as human beings gives us the chance… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
Moderation, the Golden Mean, the Aristonmetron, is the secret of wisdom and of happiness. But it does not mean embracing an unadventurous… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
