I am stuck with my passion for the objective world, for the constantly shifting shades of meaning to the events of my… — Burton Silverman Copy Share Image
Everything good takes a great amount of effort. Like, things went wrong with 'Prozac Nation' so much, and it went through so… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur are the ability to fail, to have ideas, to sell those ideas, to… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
I've been in the business since I was 16, so I've had a 14-year career. I've always had acting in my blood.… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
“There is an easy way to silence your critics; just try to do what they say you can't do. If they are… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Actually, I would love to make a music video. Maybe it would finally put to rest those persistent rumours that have followed… — Perry Como Copy Share Image
Perfecting and selling your writing is a lifelong task. If you are a persistent writer, you can expect your abilities to improve… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
As well as many subspecies, the main blocks are fear of failure after previous success, fear of success due to a sense… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it… — Henri Nouwen 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
Seeking those elusive individuals is like mining for rare gems. It will take hard work, patience, and a persistent attitude. To find… — Chris Murray Copy Share Image
Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stands up and protests. The protest need not be merely physical-the throwing of… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
I am persistent about everything I believe in. If there's a film I want to do, a record, a Broadway show -… — Jerry Weintraub Copy Share Image
You're not going to be persistent and tenacious enough if you don't love what you're doing. If it's not something that excites… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Prose is something that is persistent in staying in one place long enough to not only zero in on the dramatic effect… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
One of the most persistent images in American urbanism is that of the proverbial city on a hill, as first envisioned on… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
