Robert Baden-Powell Quotes

Apart from the fact that any hardy exercise conduces much to the training and formation of a soldier, pig-sticking tends to give a man what is called a 'stalker's eye,' but which, par excellence, is the soldier's eye.

Robert Baden-Powell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: soldier
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: February 22, 1857 - January 8, 1941

Topics

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Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything - to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. Don't worry girls, look like a wreck, that's the way it goes.

Jeanne Moreau

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Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I read it almost by accident when I was in high school, when I was 15 years old.

Michael Cunningham

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In cities like Miami, my hair can get so frizzy, it looks crazy. I use TRESemm Extra Hold hairspray. I use a lot of it.

Ana Ivanovic

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Sometimes you have to push the envelope in pursuit of the right thing.

Tom Perez

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Nobody is opposed to paying taxes; governments need to coordinate, work together and simplify the law.

Jon Oringer

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Could I have walked out then? If I had, Terry wouldn't have accepted the job.

Bryan Robson

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A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

Alistair Cooke

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I went to LaGuardia, so I'm very close to the reality that lot of actors work rarely.

Timothee Chalamet

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I just try to try to keep an attitude that I don't know what I'm doing. Not to the point where I'm beating myself up, but I just go in thinking that I have a lot to learn. And I hope I still have that attitude 30 years from now.

Tobey Maguire

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I started The McCoys in 1962, so I'm approaching my 40th year in the entertainment business.

Rick Derringer

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I've never written a novel before, and part of the reason I haven't is I was worried about getting 50,000 words into a book and realizing I'd made a mistake on word three that would mean throwing everything out.

Ryan North

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