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Claude Adrien Helvetius Quotes

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: french
Birth: January 26, 1715 - December 26, 1771

Topics

Fear Art Discipline Enemy More Than

Texas is as alien as Mars.

Joe R. Lansdale

Texas Alien Mars

When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work.

Work Building Stand Down Place Up

I've been writing since I was 19.

Writing Been Since

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.

God Light Mountain Calm Windows Us

We just want to win the natty - the national championship - and that's starts with a team, not just one person.

Team Win Person Want Just One Just

For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed.

Mary Lou Retton

Bag Bed Bread Years Plastic Medals

I always recommend, if you can, to patent or protect whatever your idea is. If you can't, you have to make your best judgment. Sometimes people don't get anywhere because they sit on something, so afraid to reveal it. And yet, in the reverse, sometimes if you expose something too widely, you can risk losing it.

Best Losing People You Sometimes

When I got old enough to go to night clubs to hear that music at the age of 15.

Music Age Night Enough Go Old

I'm a Nickelback guy.

DeAngelo Williams

I wouldn't say there isn't a direct path to a successful career. There are people who knew exactly what they wanted to do from a very young age, weren't going to be diverted, and then they just went out and achieved it.

Clayton M. Christensen

Age Path People Career Young Say

The artists who stick around for a while are the ones who go, 'Oh, that's cool, never thought of that. Ought to do that.'

Cool Thought Go Never Stick Artists

My way of living and working is that I'll do my thing. I went from one thing to another. That annoyed people. They didn't know how to categorize me.

People Me Know Living Way Working

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