Demosthenes Quotes

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: statesman
  • Nationality: greek
  • Birth: 382 BC - 322 BC

Topics

GreatBeginningSmallOpportunities

One of the jobs of a director is to ask questions. One of the jobs of the director is to stand in for the audience until they get there.

Joe Mantello

StandQuestionsAskDirectorGet

Philip Greenspun had a huge impact on me. He was the first person I knew of that embraced online communities, created a real business around open source, gave back to the community through education, and inspired me to explore photography.

Matt Mullenweg

EducationBusinessCommunityMeBack

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

WorkEndBecomeFirstModernOnly

Boston's such a unique city. I feel like 50 percent of its DNA turns over every semester.

Michael Bastian

CityFeelUniqueDNABostonOver

We don't watch the film anymore because we've seen it so many times, so we'll introduce it, walk out and we'll come back in right about when I wake up in the morning and walk over to the shop and everything's changed.

Simon Pegg

MorningWalkWake UpBackRightOut

Erosion of faith and trust in government - that is the real problem that confronts us.

Rodrigo Duterte

FaithTrustGovernmentProblemReal

I love getting my nails done. My mom's best friend is a manicurist. When I was little, she'd do little paintings on my nails, like flowers. She comes to our house. It's the best.

Miranda Cosgrove

LoveFriendBestFlowersMomHouse

Just so that we are clear on this, I am in favour of teaching children about different beliefs. I am not in favour of indoctrinating them in any particular belief, including my own: these issues should be presented as beliefs, not as fact.

Liz Williams

ChildrenI AmBeliefMy OwnOwn

I'm interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.

Jordan Peterson

SupportInterestedParticipateActs

The goal of almost every comic is to find a comedy voice - a specific point of view that an audience can latch onto.

Chris Hardwick

VoiceViewComedyPoint Of ViewGoal

For me, life is about experience and being a good person.

Chris Hemsworth

LifeGoodExperienceMeGood Person

To me, Harlem is one of the most important places on the earth, particularly when it comes to talking about African Americans.

Cheo Hodari Coker

MeTalkingEarthImportantPlaces

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