Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: educator
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 29, 1799 - March 4, 1888

Topics

LifeLiveManThinkThinkingHigh

It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet.

Jerry Brown

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When you're acting, you're a person. When you're modeling, you're a hanger.

Analeigh Tipton

YouModelingActingPerson

Minimalism wasn't a real idea - it ended before it started.

Sol LeWitt

RealStartedIdeaBeforeMinimalism

I hope that basketball gains momentum and kids understand that you can actually make a living from it. Not just the N.B.A. You can get a scholarship, a free degree - like, no student loan you have to pay off. That's huge in life. Once they realize that in New Zealand, I hope they get inspired.

Steven Adams

LifeHopeBasketballFreeYouNew

I'm in the process of working out an arrangement to make some very, very, very small films in the midst of all these films and maybe that will help. But you get tired of talking. You just want to do it.

Steven Soderbergh

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I needed to create something I could take with me wherever I went.

Toyin Odutola

MeCreateWhereverTakeSomething

No one knows this, but my dad can sing his face off.

Rob McClure

FaceOffSingKnowsHisDad

My principal contribution to the Black-Scholes option-pricing theory was to show that the dynamic trading strategy prescribed by Black and Scholes to offset the risk exposure of an option would provide a perfect hedge in the limit of continuous trading.

Robert C. Merton

BlackStrategyPerfectPrincipal

In the Communist era, excrement took on political importance, because Party policy decided excrement was essential for the Great Agricultural Leap Forward.

Rose George

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It doesn't matter what kind of book you write - you ought to write it well and with some kind of style and elegance.

Ruth Rendell

StyleBookEleganceYouKindMatter

I teach some of the guys stuff that I've learned.

Jason Pierre-Paul

TeachStuffSomeLearnedGuys

The album is a definite departure. I haven't written original material before, except for one song on my first album, but Elvis and I did six songs together on this one.

Diana Krall

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