Quotes with top-heaviness

Quotes 121 till 140 of 182.

  • Bo Bennett The concept of the 'good ol' days' must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • O. J. Simpson The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.
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  • Bertolt Brecht The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
    Mother Courage and Her Children
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Byron Howard The era of 'The Jungle Book' was when the animators were at the top of their game and their sense of character was great.
    Byron Howard
    American film director and producer (1968 - )
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  • Albert Camus The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Fred Astaire The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.
    Fred Astaire
    American dancer, singer, actor and choreographer (1899 - 1987)
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  • Lee Iacocca The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.
    Lee Iacocca
    American businessman and CEO of Chrysler (1924 - 2019)
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  • Napoleon Hill The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Douglas Adams The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Aaron Hill The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • Eric Hoffer The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Billy Collins The obituaries shot up to the top of my list when I discovered Robert McG. Thomas, the 'Times' obit writer who redesigned its traditional form and added a measure of stylistic elegance.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Russell Lynes The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved.
    Russell Lynes
    American editor, criticus (1910 - 1991)
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  • Byron Howard The people around us are at the top of their craft, and we benefit from that.
    Byron Howard
    American film director and producer (1968 - )
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  • Joyce Brothers The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
    Joyce Brothers
    American psychologist and columnist (1927 - 2013)
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  • Ernest A. Fitzgerald The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.
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  • James Reston The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
    James Reston
    In Holland born, American journalist (1909 - 1995)
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  • Helen Rowland The tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Brendon Burchard The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.
    Brendon Burchard
    American author (1977 - )
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  • Marianne Williamson The top of one mountain is always the bottom of another.
    Marianne Williamson
    American writer (1952 - )
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