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Maurice Maeterlinck Quotes

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: dramatist
Nationality: belgian
Birth: August 29, 1862 - May 6, 1949

Topics

Happiness Know Presence Absent

I used to be scared of uncertainty; now I get a high out of it.

Uncertainty Now Out High Scared Get

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

John D. Rockefeller

Rich You Goal Achieve Become Never

I have, for a few years, been writing comedy prose - short pieces for my blog - because I found it to be a good way to write while I was on a TV show. It was different enough from my scripts that it felt like a break, but it still was comedy and very fun. I like to do comedy!

Good Fun Writing Short Comedy Way

Twenty-eight years in business and you understand the importance of problem solving and the importance of efficiency, because if you don't become efficient, you don't run a business well, and you are out of business. And I think some of those principles could be applied to leadership in Washington.

Leadership Business Think Problem

Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.

History Time Feel Look Back Place

If you love friends, you will serve your friends. If you love community, you will serve your community. If you love money, you will serve your money. And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself.

Stephen Colbert

Love Community Money Yourself You

I grew up in rural Tennessee. There were no bookstores in the town, but the school had a little library, and the town had a little library, each with a patient and enthusiastic librarian, and I raced into both as if they were doorways to another world.

School World Library Patient Up

Dying in childbirth is something that's not new; it's been going on for ages, and so it's not something that people focus on; it's not something that gets funded a lot, and it's exactly for that reason that we are losing mothers all the time, and we have kids with no mothers.

Time Focus Losing People New Reason

The risk of relying on a handful of customers is not just financial. Your product also is at risk when you're at the mercy of a few big spenders. When any one customer pays you significantly more than the others, your product inevitably ends up catering mostly to that customer's specific needs.

Financial Customer You Mercy Others

I don't like to watch myself. I can't get into the story; I'm too critical.

Cheyenne Jackson

Myself Story Watch Get Critical Too

I'm an actor, in particular, that likes to have a mask or something that can help me distance myself from the character. Like the moustache or an accent.

Character Myself Me Mask Help Actor

My dad was an adventurer, my mother a romantic. When they met in college, both were creative writers; the writing was a bond.

Mother Romantic Creative College Met

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