Alan Loy McGinnis Quotes, Commitment Quotes, People Quotes

But leisure has little to do with one's happiness. To the contrary, I've found that the happiest people have found some cause and they stride through life propelled by a commitment.

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I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.

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I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't.

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America is the largest investor in the technologies necessary to be able to say to people, 'You can grow your economy so people's standard of living can improve, and at the same time be good stewards of the environment'.

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What ends up happening is people form images and the image they form is, in some ways, what they want it to be. The idea of trying to correct the image is something I'm not interested in doing.

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People often need to describe things quickly and so they use a shorthand. The problem is that after they use a label, they begin to think only in terms of the label instead of the totality of the experience a novel provides.

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There aren't twelve-hundred people in the world who understand pictures. The others pretend and don't care.

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The great misfortune of the modern English is not at all that they are more boastful than other people (they are not); it is that they are boastful about those particular things which nobody can boast of without losing them.

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Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.

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I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.

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Those who by form did see me and those who followed me by voice. Wrong the efforts they engaged in, those people will not see me.

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She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.

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There's in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated, and grown will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again

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Compassionate conservatism [is] most importantly, making sure that government is not the answer to people's problems.

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If most of the breaks go to wealthy people it's because most of the people who pay taxes are wealthy.

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You will only succeed if you know that what you are doing is right and you know how to bring out the best in people.

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This is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but they were all sort of... well, my grandfather was a minister and sort of Protestant, and this was rather depressing to me.

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Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?

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The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve.

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Let the things that happen on the stage be just as complex and yet just as simple as they are in life. For instance, people are having a meal, just having a meal, but at the same time their happiness is being created, or their lives are being smashed up.

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