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inspiration ideas desire
I have found that great ideas come when you have a great desire to have them. Charlie Chaplin
inspirational motivational success
Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat.
inspirational mean imagination
Imagination means nothing without doing.
inspirational character men
A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
inspirational happiness pain
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
inspirational relationship bullying
My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.
inspirational patient disability
Strokes are preventable and treatable. Prompt treatment of patients experiencing stroke saves lives and reduces disability. Charles W. Pickering
inspirational life speech
There is but one pleasure in life equal to that of being called on to make an after-dinner speech, and that is not being called on to make one. Charles Dudley Warner
inspirational funny thinking
When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself. Charles de Gaulle
oracles becoming sap
SAP is becoming the standard for business software. Oracle is in a state of chaos. Bill Vaughan
oracles sound these-days
Many physicists these days sound like the Delphic oracle - with equations. John Twelve Hawks
oracles librarian
I'm a librarian, not an oracle. Libba Bray
oracles speak
Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all. Luis Barragan
oracles folly built
The folly of mistaking oneself for an oracle is built right into us. Paul Valery
poetry should
Why then we should drop into poetry. Charles Dickens
poet companion whole-life
Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life. David McCullough
poet represent size sound thus universal
The poet should size the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
poet true
The poet does not know and often will never know his true receiver. Eugenio Montale
poet negotiation range
Readers bring their own experiences, their own range of - their own wisdom, their own knowledge, their own insights to poem and the meaning of a poem takes place in the negotiation between the poet, the poem and the reader. Edward Hirsch
poetry essentials needs
Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We're involved in a mystery. Poetry uses words to put us in touch with that mystery. We're always going to need it.
poet reader great-poet
There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.
poetry use would-be
it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion. Edith Sitwell
poetic invisible feels
Judy Blume excels at describing how it feels to be invisible. So how poetic is it that Blume herself is suddenly everywhere? Diablo Cody