Quotes with carrying

  • The really tough thing would have been to decide to take Woodward and Bernstein off the story. They were carrying the coal for us - in that their stories were right.
  • Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.
  • Art was carrying me a lot of the time. When you're accustomed to playing with Art, and you play with other drummers, it's as if the bottom dropped out.
  • I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing.
  • These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equaled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.
  • Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.
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  • Stephen R. Covey Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • William Faulkner The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Jean Genet A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • Arnold J. Toynbee Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
    Arnold J. Toynbee
    British historian and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Benny Green Art was carrying me a lot of the time. When you're accustomed to playing with Art, and you play with other drummers, it's as if the bottom dropped out.
    Benny Green
    American musician
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  • Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
    Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
    American journalist, essayist and memoirist (1934 - 2002)
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  • Arne Jacobsen Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Napoleon Hill Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Joseph Conrad Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy!
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Barbara Olson Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans.
    Barbara Olson
    American lawyer (1955 - 2001)
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  • Bryan Greenberg I was a caddy once and I lost the golfer's clubs. Plus I don't know how to golf, so I was the worst caddy ever. Then I was a mortgage brokers assistant, so that was just carrying around a lot of files - pretty meaningless, mind-numbing work.
    Bryan Greenberg
    American actor and singer (1978 - )
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  • Bill Goldberg I've got a lot of people I'm carrying on my back, but it's a light load because I take a lot of pride in who I am and where I came from.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Buddy Hackett I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing.
    Buddy Hackett
    American actor and comedian (1924 - 2003)
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  • Les Brown If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Angela Carter My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws and carrying on government.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • Lawana Blackwell The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.
    Lawana Blackwell
    English writer
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