Cicely Tyson Quotes

I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.

Cicely Tyson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 19, 1933

Topics

LifeWorkMountainYourselfBelieve

Puma was all about function and not at all about design. The founder of the company always believed functionality and performance were the only ingredients that could make Puma successful and design never mattered.

Jochen Zeitz

PerformanceDesignNeverCompany

The star S0-2 orbits around Sgr A* every 16 years and will go through its closest approach in 2018. That's an opportunity to test Einstein's General Relativity theory through very precise measurements of this star's short period orbit.

Andrea M. Ghez

OpportunityShortGoTestWillStar

When I came to the high-performance arena, I was kind of a one-off in a lot of ways. I was as much an iron man as much as I was a cricketer. Having surfed, fished, hunted, that was just a natural thing.

Matthew Hayden

ManKindIronNaturalJustMuch

I guess I feel I'm masquerading as an adult when I don't have the kind of friendships and routines that I thought you were supposed to have as an adult. It's the 'Friends' lied to me! syndrome.

Anna Kendrick

MeThoughtFeelFriendsYouKind

Even though we are deceived, still believe. Though we are betrayed, still forgive. Love completely even those who hate you.

Sun Myung Moon

LoveHateBelieveYouForgiveStill

For the first five years of my life, I grew up in a log cabin in coastal British Columbia in a very small town, like 300 people, mostly hippies. No running water, no electricity. When I was 12, I changed my name from Dharma to Stewart. At that age, you just want to be normal.

Stewart Butterfield

LifeAgeWaterPeopleSmallName

I'm obsessed with food!

Sofia Vergara

FoodObsessed

In principle, skeptics are neither closed-minded nor cynical. We are curious but cautious.

Michael Shermer

CuriousCynicalCautiousPrinciple

So, immediately after that, I got a commission to write a piece for chamber orchestra, and in working on the material I discovered it was possible to incorporate the Buddhist teachings into the music, so that's what I started to do.

Joseph Jarman

MusicPossibleWriteOrchestraGot

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.

Jon Meacham

FaithGreatFreeRejectionWorth

Football is more disputed in England than it is in Italy. Every match is a very hard match because the referee doesn't blow his whistle as much as in Italy, and every team plays against each other like it is a final.

Philippe Coutinho

FootballTeamMoreHardFinalLike

Deep down, the Iraqi people want the United States out. And their self-determination should be respected.

Peter Camejo

PeopleDeepDownWantOutUnited

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