Henry David Thoreau Quotes

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Henry David Thoreau

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862

Topics

FriendshipKnowledgeIgnoranceTrue

We must send the message that if you use illegal drugs, you will pay the ultimate price by not playing an entire season. And if you get caught again, you will be banished for life.

Jim Bunning

LifeYouPriceWillPayPlaying

The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance. It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense - the home sense - which operates unerringly.

John Burroughs

HomeBirdsStrongFindingBackWay

I was OK in school, but I always missed a lot because I was playing so much. But if I'd stuck at it, I imagine that I'd be doing something financial or economical. Finance always attracted me, even though maths was always a bit of a love-hate relationship. I would have tried playing football, but I don't think I'd have made it.

Matteo Manassero

RelationshipFootballFinanceSchool

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Steve Jobs

WorkFocusSimpleMountainsThinking

I've always wanted to fight for people who didn't have arms. I've always wanted to speak up for people who don't have a voice. I've always wanted to protect people who couldn't protect themselves. It's my nature. It's my instinct.

Sophia Bush

NatureFightPeopleVoiceSpeakUp

Somewhere along the line I made the switch and was able to look at the bight side rather than the dark side all the time. Now I look at everything I have and think how lucky I am.

Michelle Pfeiffer

TimeI AmThinkLookDarkDark Side

Knowing what I do now, I don't know if I'd ever have the balls to go to film school, with no connections and no knowledge of the business side at all.

Michael Patrick Jann

BusinessKnowledgeSchoolConnections

It's about communication. It's about honesty. It's about treating people in the organization as deserving to know the facts. You don't try to give them half the story. You don't try to hide the story. You treat them as - as true equals, and you communicate and you communicate and communicate.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

CommunicationHonestyPeopleTreat

I tend to gravitate toward Proenza Schouler and Alexander Wang. Their designs are accessible and easy.

Liya Kebede

EasyAccessibleDesignsGravitate

Once you recognize that all documentaries are performance, it's not a matter of 'if' they should be performance. They are performance, and they are performance precisely where people are playing themselves.

Joshua Oppenheimer

PeoplePerformanceYouMatterWhere

I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity.

Josephine Baker

FreedomEqualityDemocracyFar Away

In all honesty I think that I've had a very normal life, even though I've been making movies since I was 9.

Josh Hutcherson

LifeHonestyThinkMoviesNormal

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