Astounding Quotes

100 quotes by 96 authors

Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure. — Sydney J. Harris
Get to Know Yourself Once you start getting acquainted with yourselves, finding out who you are and where you belong and who your relatives are,… — Boyd K. Packer
Way back in 1989, I got lucky with my first published story when it was selected for the Journey Prize anthology. Then I got lucky… — David Bergen
It is astounding how much the immune system is strengthened by reducing daily mental stress levels with either visualization or meditation. The other great tonic… — Bernie Siegel
I wonder whether any other generation has seen such astounding revolutions of data and values as those through which we have lived. Scarcely anything material… — Winston Churchill
As populations crowd toward the ocean's edge and the sea encroaches menacingly toward the land, John R. Gillis looks at the history of the world… — Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Money is one of the greatest instruments of freedom ever invented by man. It is money which in existing society opens an astounding range of… — Friedrich August von Hayek
I have nothing but praise for the boy. He is easily the best player in the world. His contribution as a goal threat is unbelievable.… — Alex Ferguson
Having come to realize in the first stage of meditation that we are not our bodies, in the second stage we make an even more… — Eknath Easwaran
My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have… — Karel Capek
The world is an astounding place, and we can see it every day, if we're open to it. — Dewitt Jones
Three times a day Petrovich showed up at the nurse's office for his injections, always using the hypodermic needle himself like the most craven of… — Jeffrey Eugenides
First love is an astounding experience and if the object happens to be totally unworthy and love not really love at all, it makes little… — Angela Thirkell
Sociologists have a theory of the looking-glass self: You become what the most important person in your life (wife, father, boss, etc.) thinks you are.… — Philip Yancey
When the white race broke out of Europe 500 years ago, it did many astounding things all over the globe. Inspired by a raging sky-god,… — Gore Vidal
Today, over one million people now make their living on eBay, which is astounding. — Niklas Zennstrom
I'm a big history buff so to walk the streets...the ancient world like that was pretty astounding. — Leonardo DiCaprio
When you decide clearly and definitely what you want, then no sacrifice is too great as you put all of your powers into astounding results. — Charles L. Allen
My sense is that we are missing a huge part of the human story. I think it's possible, indeed probable, that we are a species… — Graham Hancock
Overwhelming and astounding inequality,especially when it has an element of the unattainable, arouses far less envy than minimal inequality, which inevitably causes the envious to… — Helmut Schoeck

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