“ Acting was a way out at first. A way out of not knowing what to do, a way of focusing ambitions. And the ambition wasn't for fame. The ambition was to do an interesting job. ”
- Harrison Ford- Copy
- 601
“ Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy. ”
- Marquis de Vauvenargues- Copy
- 3K
“ Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy. ”
- Vauvenargues- Copy
- 1.4K
“ It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat. ”
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca- Copy
- 3.3K
“ We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world. ”
- Christopher Fry- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Fear, desire, hope still push us on toward the future. ”
- Michel de Montaigne- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat. ”
- Caroline Schoeder- Copy
- 2K
“ To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling. ”
- Gail Sheehy- Copy
- 333
“ If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I want to be praised.". ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
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“ If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I want to be praised. ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
- 1.5K
“ We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough… What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties. ”
- Katherine Mansfield- Copy
- 1.1K
“ I was always telling everyone, I want to be a broadcaster. They'd say, What, are you crazy? What, you're going to be Arthur Godfrey? ”
- Larry King- Copy
- 1.7K
“ I'm not much crazier than anybody else, but I'm not much saner. ”
- Robert Stone- Copy
- 591
“ Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild. ”
- Alexis Delp- Copy
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“ Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. ”
- Niccolo Machiavelli- Copy
- 256
“ As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 3.3K
“ The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home. ”
- William Temple- Copy
- 3.6K
“ A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements. ”
- Bo Bennett- Copy
- 2.4K
“ The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor. ”
- Orison S. Marden- Copy
- 2K
“ My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope. ”
- Herbert Clark Hoover- Copy
- 260
“ Few influential people involved with the Internet claim that it is a good in and of itself. It is a powerful tool for solving social problems, just as it is a tool for making money, finding lost relatives, receiving medical advice, or, come to that, trading instructions for making bombs. ”
- Esther Dyson- Copy
- 2.3K
“ I accept that simply talking about the problem of child abuse will not make a substantial difference, but I hope that the combined effort of so many New Zealanders such as yourselves, with some assistance from me and other influential people, might make noticeable inroads into reducing the risks that so many of our children face. ”
- Silvia Cartwright- Copy
- 268
“ Wondrous hole! Magical hole! Dazzlingly influential hole! Noble and effulgent hole! From this hole everything follows logically: first the baby, then the placenta, then, for years and years and years until death, a way of life. It is all logic, and she who lives by the hole will live also by its logic… ”
- Cynthia Ozick- Copy
- 1.7K
“ When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
- 2.1K
“ What does it mean to succeed? Most people see success as being rich and famous or powerful and influential. Others see it as being at the top of their profession and standing out from the rest. The wise see success in a more personal way; they see it as achieving the goals they have set for themselves, and then feeling pride and satisfaction in their accomplishments… ”
- Tim Tweedie- Copy
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