Quotes with up-their-own-butt

Quotes 2941 till 2960 of 4570.

  • John Locke Sophistry is only fit to make men more conceited in their ignorance.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Dale Carnegie Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Henri-Louis Bergson Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.
    Henri-Louis Bergson
    French philosopher and Nobel Prize winner in Literature (1927) (1859 - 1941)
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  • Alice Meynell Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.
    Alice Meynell
    British poet, writer (1847 - 1922)
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  • Beth Brooke Sponsorship involves putting your own political capital at risk, so they are going to help that person to succeed. Women get promoted; they don't get sponsored. Women know they are on their own if they get that promotion.
    Beth Brooke
    American businesswoman and athelete (1959 - )
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  • Brad Feld St. Louis is a good example of a vibrant city. Having stayed in a hotel in 2011 overlooking Cardinals stadium when they won the World Series, their fans definitely show up loud and proud.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Carl Sagan Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
    Source: Cosmos
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Richard Branson Starting your own business isn't just a job - it's a way of life.
    Richard Branson
    English business magnate, investor and philanthropist (1950 - )
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  • Bill Dedman State courts usually rule that correspondence between government officials, about government business, are public records, whether they use their government e-mail accounts or private ones.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit still, or at least must always work their limbs and features.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Betty Friedan Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework - an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Brad Feld Stress on fast growing companies comes from a lot of different places. The one that is often the largest, and creates the most second-order issues, is the composition of the leadership team. More specifically, it's specific people on the leadership who don't have the scale experience their role requires at a particular moment in time.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Arlen Specter Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year.
    Arlen Specter
    American lawyer, author, and politician (1930 - 2012)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Willem De Kooning Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
    Willem De Kooning
    Dutch-American painter (1904 - 1997)
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  • John Ruskin Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Howard Whitman Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.
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  • Plato Success tempts many to their ruin.
    Source: Phaedrus
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • David Harold Fink Successful people have cultivated the habit of never denying to themselves their true feelings and attitudes. They have no need for pretenses.
    David Harold Fink
    American author
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