John Templeton Quotes

I thought, I'm only going to be on this planet once, and only for a short time. What can I do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits?

John Templeton

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LifeTimeThoughtShortMy Life

To be an artist that is fully original, it doesn't exist.

John Gourley

ArtistOriginalExistFully

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

Robert Louis Stevenson

MarriageEyesWifeLaughterPeople

I've met so many people of my son's generation who think a sacrifice is when their satellite or Internet is out for a day and that the country owes them something. That old J.F.K. quote about 'what you can do for your country,' doesn't even seem to apply to so many people.

Steve Daines

SonDaySacrificePeopleThinkYou

I hardly have any spare time! But when I do, I garden a lot - I love plants and flowers.

Soundarya

LoveTimeFlowersPlantsGardenAny

I don't like going to decisions. I always try to finish people, knock them out, beat them up, and that's always the game plan.

Robbie Lawler

PeopleGameDecisionsPlanTryOut

I should say that I usually have a good experience on Amtrak. Still, if Amtrak could replace electric horns with steam whistles, they could make big strides. A horn is a horn is a horn, but a steam whistle is a voice and a song. People used to know which engineer was running which engine based on the call of the whistle.

Brian Floca

GoodExperiencePeopleSongVoice

The third person allows characters to really attack themselves. We all do this - attack ourselves - every hour of our lives.

Chuck Palahniuk

PersonAttackOurHourOurselves

My introduction to Motown was through The Jackson Five and Michael Jackson. Michael's been my greatest creative inspiration, so that's how I really became familiar with Motown as a whole, and as I got older, I learned far more about the other groups.

Brandon Victor Dixon

CreativeIntroductionMoreThrough

By definition, as a company scales rapidly, it adds people quickly.

Brad Feld

PeopleCompanyDefinitionQuickly

Burmese authors and artists can play the role that artists everywhere play. They help to mold the outlook of a society - not the whole outlook, and they are not the only ones to mold the outlook of society, but they have an important role to play there.

Aung San Suu Kyi

SocietyHelpPlayImportantRole

The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.

Plato

ServiceManGodsIntolerable

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

Peter De Vries

LoveStandBeingPaperworkWriter

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