Quotes with facility

  • It is not ease but effort, not facility but difficult, that makes man. There is perhaps no station in life in which difficulties do not have to be encountered and overcome before any decided means of success can be achieved.

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  • Sir Thomas Beecham Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
    Sir Thomas Beecham
    English conductor and impresario (1879 - 1961)
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  • Barack Obama Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Alan Parsons I started in a research lab for TV cameras, then I worked at a tape duplication facility. That was the first introduction for me to recorded music and hi-fi.
    Alan Parsons
    English audio engineer, songwriter, musician (1948 - )
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  • Samuel Smiles It is not ease but effort, not facility but difficult, that makes man. There is perhaps no station in life in which difficulties do not have to be encountered and overcome before any decided means of success can be achieved.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Bill Bailey Not a very well-known fact, but on planes they always carry a trombone just in case there's a disaster and they need to keep morale up. All cabin crew - fully proficient in the trombone. And of course there's a double facility: if you ditch at sea, it can be used as a snorkel.
    Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Ben Shahn Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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  • Ben Mezrich People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it's right. Rumor gets printed as fact. We may have lost our critical facility as a nation.
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  • Bill Flores Someday, somehow, the leadership of Planned Parenthood will have to answer for their callous disregard of the sanctity of human life. In the meantime, I am relieved that the Bryan abortion facility has gone out of business.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are - 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and, 3. Hope to all.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Carly Fiorina The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Bill Hader To be totally honest? I don't know if I'll keep doing more impressions. People told me I had a facility for it, and I was like, 'Okay, I'm the impression guy.' So you imagine the cast at 'SNL' is an A-Team, and you've got the explosives guy, and I'm the impression guy.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Mark Twain We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Burnie Burns We started about three years before YouTube existed, so we had to host all the videos on our own servers at a co-location facility. When we got so many hits on our first few videos, and we estimated our bandwidth bill was going to be about $12,000 a month, we knew that we had to establish a business model ASAP.
    Burnie Burns
    American writer, actor, producer and director (1973 - )
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  • Burton Richter While a lab director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community. I learned this early in my career while I was leading the construction of the SPEAR facility.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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