Quotes with head-heavy

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  • Albert Speer Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor conditions in German factories. Then I was in charge of public works on the staff of Hess. I gave up both these activities in 1941.
    Albert Speer
    German architect and Minister of Armaments during WWII (1905 - 1981)
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  • Boris Becker Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.
    Boris Becker
    German tennis player (1967 - )
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  • William Wordsworth That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Andrew Carnegie The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Aristotle The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Alexander Pope The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Ben Kingsley The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!
    Ben Kingsley
    English actor (1943 - )
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  • Alexandre Dumas père The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • John Maynard Keynes The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Gore Vidal The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Bob Filner The government gets it right on Head Start. We are providing opportunities for children in underserved areas where parents may not be able to afford preschool so they can begin their schooling with a running or Head Start.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Mignon McLaughlin The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
    The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Adam Weishaupt The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The heart always sees before than the head can see.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Arthur Erickson The heart, not the head, must be the guide.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Bayard Taylor The hollows are heavy and dank
    With the steam of the Goldenrods.
    The Guests of Night
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Günter Grass The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.
    Günter Grass
    German writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1999) (1927 - 2015)
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  • Baba Kalyani The Indian business has largely grown on the back of exports. The domestic markets, as far as our Indian business is concerned, actually have contracted because of the contraction in the medium and heavy commercial vehicle space.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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