Quotes with works-in-progress

Quotes 161 till 180 of 488.

  • Henrik Ibsen I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Alan Alda I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Barbara Kruger I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like.
    Barbara Kruger
    American artist (1945 - )
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  • Sylvester Stallone I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.
    Sylvester Stallone
    American actor and filmmaker (1946 - )
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  • Bert Lance I've always believed that if you had a fellow who works 150 percent of the time, he's going to beat a fellow who works something less than that.
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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  • B. C. Forbes Ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea by itself is worth nothing. An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Guy Debord Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.
    Guy Debord
    French philosopher (1931 - 1994)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Hannah More If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
    Hannah More
    British Writer, Reformer, Philanthropist (1745 - 1833)
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  • Calvin Coolidge If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • George Bernard Shaw If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • David Rockerfeller If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.
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  • Boris Sidis If society is to progress on a truly humanistic basis, without being subject to mental epidemics and virulent social diseases to which the subconscious falls an easy victim, the personal consciousness of every individual should be cultivated to the highest degree possible.
    The Source and Aim of Human Progress (1919)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • Frederick Douglass If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
    Frederick Douglass
    African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator and writer (1818 - 1895)
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  • Louise Lynn Hay If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.
    Louise Lynn Hay
    American writer of books on personal growth (1926 - 2017)
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  • Caitlyn Marie Jenner If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.
    Caitlyn Marie Jenner
    American television personality and decathlete (born Bruce Jenner)
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  • Barack Obama If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Anna Quindlen Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Booker T. Washington In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
    Up From Slavery (1901) Ch. XIV: The Atlanta Exposition Address
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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