Devoting Quotes
50 quotes by 48 authors
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I am the same artist with the same nagging questions I had in my early 20's. What's real and what isn't? How do we tell…
— John Guare
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I can't help but admire the structural linguists who have carved out forthemselves a linguistic discipline based on the deterioration of writtencommunication. Another case of…
— Daniel Keyes
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Since scarcity is the basic economic problem, if it does not exist then there is no reason for my economics course. Devoting time to the…
— Kurt Bills
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You've got to realize that any lady on a soap is devoting her life to it, 24/7.
— Joan Van Ark
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I'm a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted, devoting hours and…
— Sherman Alexie
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Problems tend to be put into their proper perspective the moment we get off SELF, and on PURPOSE. By choosing your purpose in life -…
— Hal Elrod
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I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It's…
— Claude Monet
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I am devoting some time to music. I'm finding a balance in my life right now so that when I'm not acting I'm really working…
— Steven Bauer
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The act of creation, making anything, is an alteration. We cannot eliminate the medium or ourselves from the process, and both are limited. We create…
— John Paul Caponigro
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I definitely rediscovered reading for pleasure by devoting such a large swath of my time to sitting on airplanes. I am now painfully adept at…
— Sloane Crosley
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My purpose... to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will…
— Juliette Gordon Low
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Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time…
— Nat Turner
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The designers, photographers and models I work with, they are really hard-working people who are devoting their lives to fashion. They're kind of like nuns…
— Alber Elbaz
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Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Indeed, ask every man separately whether he thinks it laudable and worthy of a man of this age to hold a position from which he…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Being rich is an obstacle to loving. When you are rich, you want to continue to be rich, and so you end up devoting all…
— Nhat Hanh
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Wennerström was devoting himself to fraud that was so extensive it was no longer merely criminal–it was business.
— Steig Larsson
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It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact, and…
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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Excellence in health means devoting your life to ending poverty.
— Patch Adams
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In New York I'd go to the movies three or four times a week. Here I've upped it to six or seven, mainly because I'm…
— David Sedaris
Who Wrote These Devoting Quotes
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