Highly Quotes
1183 Highly quotes by 963 unique authors
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If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would…
— Richard DeVos
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The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.
— William Hazlitt
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To point out the importance of circumspection in your conduct, it may be proper to observe that a good moral character is the first essential…
— George Washington
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One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.
— John Fowles
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Our creationist detractors charge that evolution is an unproved and unprovable charade-a secular religion masquerading as science. They claim, above all, that evolution generates no…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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The main conclusion arrived at in this work, namely that man is descended from some lowly-organised form, will, I regret to think, be highly distasteful…
— Charles Darwin
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
— Isaac Newton
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[Great scientists] are men of bold ideas, but highly critical of their own ideas: they try to find whether their ideas are right by trying…
— Karl Popper
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Free passion is radiation without a radiator, a fluid, pervasive warmth that flows effortlessly. It is not destructive because it is a balanced state of…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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True humility is intelligent self-respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us mindful of the nobility God…
— Ralph Washington Sockman
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So many folks in the venture capital business are sheep that just want to follow the herd. They are momentum investors purchasing highly illiquid investments.…
— Fred Wilson
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If you give people peanuts, you get monkeys. So if you want good people that are highly qualified, make the amount of money available for…
— Lindsay Fox
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One way to ease liquidity for banks is that the government can buy all highly rated securities held by the banks. Every single bank in…
— Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
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I think the avant-garde often hides itself in the highly incomprehensible because they are frustrated that the real world is so boring.
— Bjarke Ingels
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Like many physical diseases, anti-Semitism is highly infectious, and can become endemic in certain localities and societies. Though a disease of the mind, it is…
— Paul Johnson
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People might think that my queen should be highly educated, beautiful and the best of the best. Jetsun Pema is a kind-hearted girl who is…
— Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
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Stunt performing is a highly structured career path - you have to gain qualifications in six different sports to a high standard. It takes four…
— Steve Truglia
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It is becoming clear that many diseases - especially cancer - are highly complex and may respond better to a multi-drug approach which targets many…
— Eva Vertes
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A key element of Web blogs is the community element. Most blogs are not self-contained; they are highly dependent on linking to each other.
— Evan Williams
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The strong emergence of pro-feminine values in highly masculine societies signals that traditional masculine structures will continue to be challenged as the Millennial generation grows…
— John Gerzema
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There are a lot of people highly motivated to be the first to clone a human.
— Gregory Stock
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It turns out that there are swaths of habitat in the north of Siberia and Yukon that actually could house a mammoth. Remember, this was…
— Hendrik Poinar
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Food trucks give creative entrepreneurs the ability to cook with freedom and make what they love, meaning that they can create highly specialized meals without…
— Homaro Cantu
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Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control.
— Irwin Redlener
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