Quotes with good-breeding

Quotes 1721 till 1740 of 2790.

  • B. Joweit One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
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  • Bob Richards One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.
    Bob Richards
    American athlete (1926 - )
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  • Will Durant One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games and it cannot be done by men out of touch with their instinctive selves.
    Jung and the Story of Our Time, Laurens van der Post (1977)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Bill Viola One of the most important things for me in terms of my working method is doubt. I get very insecure about my ideas. And I don't say 'insecure' in kind of a paranoid way. I mean just: 'Are they good enough?' 'Is this the right thing to do?' I really beat myself up over that.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Robert A. Heinlein One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Nancy Astor One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
    Nancy Astor
    First woman Member of Parliament (1879 - 1964)
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  • Bing Gordon One skill of a great entrepreneur is to get a whole complicated discussion and then say, 'We're going to do this one and we're only going to do this one'. Managers are good at prioritizing. Entrepreneurs know what is the one thing.
    Bing Gordon
    American video game executive and technology venture capitalist
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  • George Eliot One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Edmund Burke One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Bram Cohen One thing about school - I always had this attitude that I was in school to learn, and attempted to do whatever was involved in that process, while school had this attitude that I was there to earn grades, which I couldn't care less about. Unsurprisingly, my grades weren't very good.
    Bram Cohen: Creator of BitTorrent, WrongPlanet.net, undated; accessed March 9, 2006, 17:01 (UTC)
    Bram Cohen
    American computer programmer (1975 - )
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  • Francesco Guicciardini One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
    Francesco Guicciardini
    Italian politician, soldier and historian (1483 - 1540)
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  • Ad Reinhardt Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
    Ad Reinhardt
    American abstract painter (1913 - 1967)
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  • Anne Enright Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
    Ten rules for writing fiction (2010)
    Anne Enright
    Irish writer (1962 - )
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  • Max Weber Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized ac
    Max Weber
    German economist, historian and sociologist (1864 - 1920)
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  • Tallulah Bankhead Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.
    Tallulah Bankhead
    American actress (1902 - 1968)
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  • John Erskine Only if we can restrain ourselves is conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much discipline.
    The complete life (1943)
    John Erskine
    American educator and author, pianist and composer (1879 - 1951)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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