Mary Lyon Quotes

Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought.

Mary Lyon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: educator
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 28, 1797 - March 5, 1849

Topics

SufferingThinkThinkingOthersUs

With my business, the way you make big money is you find a great management team and a good concept, and you stick to it, and you add to it over time. In philanthropy, there was more this idea that once an idea was formulated, you moved along.

Stanley Druckenmiller

GoodBusinessGreatTimeMoneyTeam

Investing in ports with partners is a very common model for us.

Soren Skou

InvestingUsCommonModelPartners

Quickness is the essence of the war.

Sun Tzu

WarEssenceQuickness

I'm such a long-term investor, I've never really let go and celebrated what I did with the Hubble telescope.

Story Musgrave

GoNeverLet GoLong-TermTelescope

One of the things that made me try writing novels was I could take time off to be with the kids. That's the practical side of what I love about the writing life.

Simon Toyne

LifeLoveTimeMeWritingTry

In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now.

Roone Arledge

PastNewsNowAimRealSomething

I don't know what kind of God the rest of y'all are serving, but the God I serve says, 'Mary, you need to be the hottest thing this year, and I'm gonna make sure you're doing that.'

Mary J. Blige

GodRestDoingYearYouKnow

There is no 'i' in team but there is in win.

Michael Jordan

TeamWin

What I've learned in my career is that it takes the same amount of effort to build a $10bn company as it does a $1bn company; you as the entrepreneur are going to put your entire life, your entire effort into it.

Jason Calacanis

LifeEffortYouCareerEntrepreneur

The meanings of words and the uses of words come from practice from the way people in a given culture use those words.

Deborah Tannen

CultureWordsPracticePeopleWay

I don't think these weather conditions are going to get better on their own.

Dean Devlin

WeatherThinkBetterOwnGoingGet

Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.

Antonia Fraser

WomenWomanFunRichClassMatter

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