Growth is a process of experimentation, a series of trials, errors, and occasional victories. The failed experiments are as much as part… — Cherie Carter-Scott Copy Share Image
A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises. — Johannes Tauler Copy Share Image
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Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation. — Conor Cruise O'Brien Copy Share Image
I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do. — George Murray Copy Share Image
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And they did have fun, though it was of different kind now. All that yearning and passion had been replaced by a… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Literary life used to be quite different in Britain in the years I lived there, from 1971 to 1989, because money was… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Some guys make their careers off one horse; kind of a trick horse, a wonder horse. I'm not knocking that, but for… — Buck Brannaman Copy Share Image
The most important and visible outcropping of the action bias in excellent companies is their willingness to try things out, to experiment.… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
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Imagine (if you dare) a whimsical marriage of Lord Dunsany and S.J. Perelman, and you have something approaching the tales of Rhys… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Real writers-that is, capital W Writers-rarely make much money. Their biggest reward is the occasional reader's response… Commentators-in-print voicing big fat opinions-you… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
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Certainly my inner world will never be a peaceful place of bloom; it will have some peace, and occasional riots of bloom,… — James Tiptree Jr Copy Share Image
I have made it a practice for several years to read the Bible through in the course of every year. I usually… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
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The importation of foreigners into a country that has as many inhabitants as the present employments and provisions for subsistence will bear,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
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Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of… — Henry S. Haskins Copy Share Image
If we are in tune with Nature, all her music can find a way into the heart. When bird music is rare,… — Frank Bolles Copy Share Image
There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I'll do my core, I'll do my strength training, I'll do my occasional cross training if I need it. — Mary Cain Copy Share Image
I think the occasional appearance of the UFO is a very oblique pop-cultural reference that anyone who was alive and sentient in… — Hank Stuever Copy Share Image
the occasional cries of a lost loon, strayed from its flock in northern migration, fill the swamp with sounds of wailing. — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
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Nature will eventually do what nature has always done. It will respond in a self-stabilizing manner over the long term with moderate… — John H. Sununu Copy Share Image
The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hitler ... lacked the [inclination] for anything more than the occasional sensational display of emotion, in particular the great set-piece speech which… — John Keegan Copy Share Image