Quotes with jack-of-all-trades

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  • Bruce Lee To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Carl Hiaasen To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills - you learn to listen, you learn to take notes - everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Bobby Vinton To me, there was nothing greater than to play for an audience and to entertain people and that has stayed with me all these years.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Jessamyn West To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other.
    Jessamyn West
    American author of short stories and novels (1902 - 1984)
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  • Quentin Crisp To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
    The Naked Civil Servant (1968) Ch. 9
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Barbara Walters To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Ansel Adams To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Georges Bataille To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg To prepare adequately for the challenge of global warming, we must acknowledge both the good and the bad that it will bring. If our starting point is to prove that Armageddon is on its way, we will not consider all of the evidence, and will not identify the smartest policy choices.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • James Allen To put away aimlessness and weakness, and to begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment; who make all conditions serve them, and who think strongly, attempt fearlessly, and accomplish masterfully.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Thomas Carlyle To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller To save all we must risk all.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Barbara Cartland To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • W. Clement Stone To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
    W. Clement Stone
    American businessman and author (1902 - 2002)
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  • Felix Frankfurter To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
    Felix Frankfurter
    Austrian-American lawyer, professor, and jurist (1882 - 1965)
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  • Carl Victor De Bonstetten To speak well supposes a habit of attention which shows itself in the thought; by language we learn to think, and above all to develop thought.
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  • Bruce Lee To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to spend or waste, and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.
    Striking Thoughts (2000)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Jean Paul Getty To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
    Jean Paul Getty
    American-born British industrialist, founder of Getty Oil Company (1892 - 1976)
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  • Mark Twain To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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