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Stephen Leacock Quotes

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Stephen Leacock

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: canadian
Birth: December 30, 1869 - March 28, 1944

Topics

Work Great I Am Luck Chance Find

I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.

Mistakes People Copy Well Been

We're a whole culture of people who have a really hard time seeing beyond themselves.

Time Culture People Seeing Beyond

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Heart Alone Win Will Others Own

Visibility doesn't always equal freedom.

Freedom Always Equal Visibility

Tisch has a great film program and a great acting program, but they are segregated; you don't really intertwine. My peers knew I liked acting, so they'd be like, 'Go get that guy Gubler. He'll be in your student film.' I was in the same building. I became their go-to guy. So I left NYU having been in probably one thousand short films.

Matthew Gray Gubler

Great Building Short You Acting Go

This was a continent of divisions, of wars, of conflicts, of divergences, differences... When I am in Asia, in Africa, people admire what we have managed to do. Europe is beautiful seen from other continents.

Jean-Claude Juncker

Beautiful I Am People Differences

And no, we don't know where it will lead. We just know there's something much bigger than any of us here.

Know Will Lead Bigger Something Us

Muslim Americans in general tend to be an underrepresented political group.

Political Group Muslim General Tend

I do not outline. There are writers I know and count as my friends who certainly do it the other way, but for me, part of the adventure is not knowing how it's going to turn out.

Adventure Me Friends Not Knowing Way

Ethnic divisions can definitely be exacerbated by a lack of natural resources, but those tensions become violent when people manipulate them for their own political gain.

People Political Become Resources

Demarcus Cousins, he can move. With his size, he can really use his size on the perimeter against anybody. That's what I want to do when I get to the league.

Want Cousins Size Against Move Get

I always enjoy rhythms and melodies, but I always use my voice as more of an instrument and less of a soapbox for me to say or to preach.

Me Voice Enjoy Say More Always

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