Almost Always Quotes
429 quotes by 346 authors
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Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Rich people are almost always excellent promoters. They can are willing to promote their products, their services, and their ideas with passion and enthusiasm.
— T. Harv Eker
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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions. A good parent, a good neighbour, a good citizen,…
— Gordon W. Allport
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All scientific theories are provisional and may be changed, but ... on the whole, they are accepted from Washington to Moscow because of their practical…
— Nevill Francis Mott
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"Pieces" almost always appear 'as parts' in whole processes. ... To sever a "'part" from the organized whole in which it occurs-whether it itself be…
— Max Wertheimer
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I almost always urge people to write in the first person. ... Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.
— William Zinsser
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I think artists almost always end up turning to what's around them, what's in their environment or outside their window.
— Susan Rothenberg
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We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.
— Rene Magritte
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Leading women, if they are to offer variations from the present companies of leading men, need to be drawn from a wide spectrum of household…
— Eva Cox
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Happiness comes to those who are moving toward something they want very much to happen. And it almost always involves making someone else happy.
— Earl Nightingale
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I'm not particularly good at coping with it. I just cope. I just leave my brain at the door and just stand there. I can…
— Robert Pattinson
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When a man publishes a book, there are so many stupid things said that he declares he'll never do it again. The praise is almost…
— Sherwood Anderson
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It is almost always a greater pleasure to come across a semicolon than a period. The period tells you that that is that; if you…
— Lewis Thomas
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still…
— Lord Acton
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The modern joint stock firm is the outcome of innumerable decisions made by individual entrepreneurs, owners and managers. For these decision makers the choices among…
— Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
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Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.
— Thomas Love Peacock
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A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books,…
— Horace Mann
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Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to…
— H. L. Mencken
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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away
— Harold Geneen
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Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the…
— John C. Maxwell
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