J. J. C. Smart Quotes
April 19 And now it is spring. Birds are singing. Wistful notes and jubilant. And bare streets and no need for coats, and skipping ropes and bicycles and a thin new moon.
You have to have short fingernails or they'd just break off, and you can't wear red polish - it looks like your fingers are bleeding.
We all fantasize about a relationship we'd like to do over or something we'd like to change about our past. I think there are a lot more opportunities for second chances in our lives than we think.
Personally, I think life offers us the opportunity to take chances and make changes all the time.
I think that people get to a certain point in their life and they think that nothing can change.
Lately, I just let myself eat it more because I think, 'Oh, my God, a piece of cheese tastes so good'. I think it's your body telling you something.
I've never met a woman ever, anywhere, bar none, that was more feminine than Dixie Carter.
Being properly prepared is one of the biggest assets in business and in athletic competition.
Some of my competitors overlook the importance of knowing as much as possible about their opponents, but I think that it is an invaluable asset that I have gained from working.
In my job, whenever I delivered a presentation I would rehearse several times before the actual event. In sport, it is important to be equally prepared about my opponents.
I would like to see an agreement that recognizes that we live on the same planet and that some interests, such as human rights, must be universal and that all religions must be respected.
Children become more liberal partly as a reaction to their parents and partly through education. Education tends to make people a bit softer.
I've often admired the way many Catholics who have left the priesthood, for example, have nevertheless remained sincere Catholics. They voted with their feet.
By loving them for more than their abilities we show our children that they are much more than the sum of their accomplishments.
The path of development is a journey of discovery that is clear only in retrospect, and it’s rarely a straight line.
Potential is not an endpoint but a capacity to grow and learn.
The miracle of children is that we just don’t know how they will change or who they will become.
For he is an instrument for the children to learn benevolence upon.
Don't expect people behave the way you want them to.
Life IS a competition. ALWAYS. No matter whether any of us want it to be or not!
Women will buy products in an attempt to become the impossible goal. Men will buy products in an attempt to mate with the impossible goal.
What nature hath joined together, multiple regression analysis cannot put asunder.
Women have become trained to be lone soldiers online, knowing that to send up a signal flare for help is more likely to attract enemies than allies.
Read. Read until your eyes are sore. Then read some more.
Reading as an adult, for pleasure, is infinitely better than reading the stuff assigned to you back in school. You get to choose what you want to read.
It is not really wise to make too many assumptions when you don’t yet have all the facts to do so. You may believe your conclusions are logical, while they may turn out to be totally wrong.
Volatility in the up direction is not a problem-it's only downward volatility that offers discourse.
All the answers to your questions about what your goals can and should be lie within, so does your power to accomplish those goals.
If the map doesn't agree with the ground the map is wrong
...ordinary experience has to be made extraordinary in order to become accessible to reflection.
It is our determination to overcome fear and discouragement that constitutes the only effective antidote to the sense of powerlessness over unwanted feelings.
Innate human tendencies were meant to help us survive the wilderness, not make investment decisions.
We reach for the same brand not because we trust its quality but because we want to reassure ourselves that we made a smart choice the last time we bought it.
I've even purposely looked for stories full of exactly this kind of angst, because I love the emotion behind it so much.
Understanding the value of a security and whether it's trading above or below that value is the difference between investing and speculating.
For every transaction, there is someone willing to buy and someone willing to sell at an agreed price, both believing that it's good value and that the counterparty is a little crazy.
You’re not beautiful, ” he said. “Your profile said beautiful. You kind of overreached on that one.
Happiness doesn't just happen. I'm convinced that for the most part, those who focus their minds on it, obtain it.
The social phenomenon of economic growth is, thanks to the principle of the conservation of matter, nothing other than the physical phenomenon of increasing resource depletion.
Fear is an emotion, not a stock indicator.
Never use the passive voice. Do not say, 'It will get done.' Say, 'I'll do it, ' and then stick to a solid, unwavering deadline
For there is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest.For there is nothing brisker than his life when in motion.
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