Quotes with well-doing

Quotes 1901 till 1920 of 2127.

  • John McEnroe What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.
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  • Caroline Knapp What is this drive to be thinner, prettier, better dressed, other? Who exactly is this other and what does she look like beyond the jacket she's wearing or the food she's not eating? What might we be doing, thinking, feeling about if we didn't think about body image, ever?
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Paul Auster What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.
    The Book of Illusions (2009) 32
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Wallace Stevens What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Brit Hume What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • John Ruskin What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant ''well-being,'' and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Barbara Lee What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.
    Barbara Lee
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Bono What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders What Wall Street and credit card companies are doing is really not much different from what gangsters and loan sharks do who make predatory loans. While the bankers wear three-piece suits and don't break the knee caps of those who can't pay back, they still are destroying people's lives.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Stephen Hawking What was God doing before the divine creation?
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Bill Gates What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Jeanette Winterson What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • Bobby Rahal What's really hit me over the years is that you go to every race and see all the well-wishers, and you really feel like you are connected with people after all these years.
    Bobby Rahal
    American auto racing driver (1953 - )
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  • Doris Lessing What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • Seneca Whatever is well said by another, is mine.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Benazir Bhutto Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power. I think they need me. I don't think it's addictive. I think, if anything, it's the opposite of addictive. You want to run away from it, but it doesn't let you go. It's doing it again.
    As quoted in I never asked for power in The Guardian (15 August 2002)
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Louis XIV Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
    Louis XIV
    French king, also called Sun King (1638 - 1715)
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  • Martin Luther King Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Bill Medley When 'You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling' hit, we were doing a show called 'Shindig!' and the Righteous Brothers suddenly became big business.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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