Mark Goulston Quotes

Given the choice between instant gratification and the lasting satisfaction of earning the esteem of someone you respect and admire, all but the most small-minded would choose the latter.

Mark Goulston

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RespectSomeoneYouChooseChoice

I love to watch someone who just goes for it and isn't worried about whether it's silly or awkward or unflattering.

Melissa McCarthy

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From everything I can read about Aussie spiders, it seems like all they really like doing is hiding in your house or garden or car until you 'accidentally' disturb them - probably by doing something crazy like putting on the shoe they are lurking in - and they can officially bite you to pieces.

John Niven

CarCrazyDoingYouHouseI Can

At a lot of companies founded on principles, the notion of making money is almost antithetical to the ethos of the place. From the very beginning, our business has existed to meet the needs and desires of multiple constituencies: customers, team members, vendors, shareholders, the community.

John Mackey

BusinessCommunityMoneyBeginning

If it's the morning, and I had a late night, the worst thing in the world is a bright light.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

MorningLightWorldNightLate

I feel like the second child feels like they have to do everything faster.

Tori Spelling

ChildFeelEverythingI Feel Like

And at a relatively early age, ten or so, I invested my first share of stock. And I used to follow, look at companies and so forth. But throughout the whole period, and indeed right through my college years, while I was involved in the stock market, always interested in finance, I never thought of it as a full-time job.

Robert C. Merton

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A lot of time, if you spend too much time in Nashville, songwriters get caught up in charts and numbers and the music business politics.

Mary Gauthier

BusinessMusicTimePoliticsYouUp

My boys have both said they want to be in the movies or on TV, and anytime I hear that, I say, 'That's wonderful; you're free to do it right after you graduate from college.'

Miguel Ferrer

CollegeFreeYouSaidWantMovies

I was hugely formed by stories I was told as a child whether that was in a book, the cinema, theatre or television and probably television more than any medium is what influenced me as a child and formed my response to literature, story-telling and, therefore, the world around me.

David Tennant

ChildMeTheatreWorldBookCinema

In LA, too many people want to go the quickest route from A to B. Method acting offers them that.

Corin Nemec

PeopleActingGoWantRouteMany

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

Arthur Erickson

HistoryManCivilizationThreadHis

After my grandmother passed away, I felt the urge to take my camera to her flat. I knew this flat from my childhood in Tel Aviv. Going to this flat was like going abroad; there was a real feeling of traveling across Tel Aviv and ending up in Berlin.

Arnon Goldfinger

ChildhoodEndingCameraFeelingReal

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