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William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: July 18, 1811 - December 24, 1863

Topics

Love Best Win Lose Next To Love

Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?

Good Architecture Obstacles Building

My 20s were gone, my 30s were recovery, my 40s is where I am self-sufficient.

I Am Recovery Gone Where Were Am

When an opportunity comes, it holds possibilities. And when you move away from it or don't sense it or grasp it, you're really throwing away your future; you're throwing away your tomorrow.

Robert H. Schuller

Future Opportunity Tomorrow You Move

You can create the perfect triceps by just pushing yourself off your wall.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

Yourself You Perfect Wall Create

I love sushi. But after too much of it, it just starts to taste like a dead animal that hasn't been cooked.

Love Animal Too Much Sushi Dead

When you can't change what's bothering you, one typical response is to convince yourself that it doesn't actually bother you.

Stephanie Coontz

Change Yourself You Convince Bother

Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.

World Meaning Sound Natural Streams

I got really good at negotiating from a place of weakness.

Travis Kalanick

Good Weakness Place Got Negotiating

I started collecting aerial photographs of Native American and South Pacific architecture; only the African ones were fractal. And if you think about it, all these different societies have different geometric design themes that they use. So Native Americans use a combination of circular symmetry and fourfold symmetry.

Architecture Think Design American

I was really good at Latin at school, and because I was good at it, I got more interested and got better at it.

Good School Better More Got Because

Steve Martin is such an exquisite and precise writer. Everything is so clear; it's like a bell. He says what he means and says it so beautifully.

Jason Schwartzman

Bell Everything Clear Like He Means

They certainly aren't connected with the old geometric art. My work isn't geometric in that sense.

Work Art Connected Old Sense

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