Thing Quotes
36662 quotes by 14295 authors
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As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer…
— Edward de Bono
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Enthusiasm is as good a thing in the Church as fire is in a cook stove.
— Billy Sunday
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Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.
— George Santayana
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... the first thing his education demands is the provision of an environment in which he can develop the powers given him by nature. This…
— Maria Montessori
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Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged to be serious…
— Maria Montessori
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Trust not to your feelings for whatever they might be now, they will quickly be changed towards some other thing.
— Thomas a Kempis
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Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.
— Mark Twain
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Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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The picket line is the best place to train organizers. One day on the picket line is where a man makes his commitment. The longer…
— Cesar Chavez
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A symbol is an important thing. That is why we chose an Aztec eagle. It gives pride...When people see it they know it means dignity.
— Cesar Chavez
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(Farm workers) are involved in the planting and the cultivation and the harvesting of the greatest abundance of food known in this society. They bring…
— Cesar Chavez
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Imagine the National Guard being called against a group of peaceful people. How far can we get; how disgraceful can it become? It's the most…
— Cesar Chavez
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The thing that we have going for us is that people are willing to sacrifice themselves.
— Cesar Chavez
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Not, not mine: it's somebody else's wound; I could never have borne it. So take the thing that happened, hide it, stick it in the…
— Anna Akhmatova
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I think egg boiling is the hardest thing I've ever done, but I can make a tiramisu anytime you want.
— Catherine Zeta-Jones
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Models are like baseball players. We make a lot of money quickly, but all of a sudden we're 30 years old, we don't have a…
— Cindy Crawford
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Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you.
— Tennessee Williams
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It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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