Quotes

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined,
he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
- Henry David Thoreau
 

According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat.
-  Moliere 


Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

- Albert Einstein

 


He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Samuel Johnson



To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
Samuel Johnson



The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
Alan Greenspan



Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people.
Howard Zinn
 

 
Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.
Marshall McLuhan
 

 
No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.
David Hume
 


 
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
Woodrow Wilson



True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.
William Penn
 
 
We're as clever as we think we are, but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one brain but to pool huge numbers of brains. We're at a level technologically where we can share information and think collectively about our problems. We do it in science all the time - there's no reason why we can't do it in other endeavors.
Lewis Thomas



 
Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.
Charles Simmons



Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.
Herbie Hancock
 



I did my acting performance in 'Roger Rabbit.' I think I did a voice-over also in 'Osmosis Jones' and I directed an episode of my show years ago, 'Tales from the Crypt' and that's my endeavors in the non-producer oriented ranks.
Joel Silver


We all take from our artistic endeavors what we as individuals need, to make the process unique and fulfilling to ourselves.
Kim Weston

 

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
Frederic Bastiat



The U.S. is looking to India as more then just a marketplace for our defense products, but as a technology, aerospace and strategic partner for our future endeavors.
Kit Bond
 

 

My dad's supportive of all my endeavors.
Georgia Jagger
 

 

The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea.
Tom T. Hall



I have a message for the young kids. Life is about obstacles, endeavors in life are not to be overlooked.
Wade Boggs



Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors.
Dave Foley
 


The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
Vernor Vinge



The more you participate in our common endeavors, the more successful your work in the factory, mine, wharf or village, in an economic institute or in the arts, in commerce or administration, the sooner we will be where we all want to be.
Walter Ulbricht



The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain.
Simon Greenleaf



A lot of people that embark on spiritual endeavors tended to, especially in the '60s and '70s, they tended to give up what they had before and cut themselves off from their lives, previous life as it were. But, I don't think that one should do that.
Dave Davies
 


 

The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves - and like all human endeavors it's imperfect.
Jaron Lanier



I think President Karzai realizes exactly how important it is to strengthen the fight against corruption in the country now, step up endeavors to stop the drug trade and to deliver better governance. He said as much in his inaugural address.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen



Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15. After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed.
Angela Cartwright
 


 

After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed. I have always had to have an outlet for my creativity and when my life became more about raising my family than the bright lights of show business exploring my photo art was a great outlet for me.
Angela Cartwright

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau

 


Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
Albert Einstein
 


 

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau






Let us never forget that terrorism at its heart, at its evil heart, is a psychological war. It endeavors to break the spirit and the resolve of those it attacks by creating a lose-lose situation.
Norm Coleman
Forget, Heart, Evil

 

Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.
Irving Langmuir
 



Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
W. Eugene Smith
 

 


In dedicating his estate to the honoring of endeavors that benefit mankind, Alfred Nobel expressed a lifelong concern that is even more timely in 1972 than it was in his lifetime.
Stanford Moore









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