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Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

Henry David Thoreau

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Thought You New Opening Channels

In most sports, your brain and your body will cooperate... But in rock climbing, it is the other way around. Your brain doesn't see the point in climbing upwards. Your brain will tell you to keep as low as possible, to cling to the wall and not get any higher. You have to have your brain persuading your body to do the right movements.

Sports Brain You Body Wall Possible

In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.

Failure Fear Reach You Knowing Out

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

Business Quality You Perfect Improve

What I want people to take away from my music is that it's important to listen. Especially for young people, your opinion is the one that counts the most when it comes to your craft.

Music People Opinion Important Young

Anyone who takes the craft of songwriting seriously I radiate towards. Spending time with Daryl Hall was a dream come true. I picked his brain a lot because Hall And Oats is timeless.

Time Brain Spending Time Dream True

If you're ahead of your time, who's going to listen? If you're behind the times, it's boring.

Time You Boring Ahead Listen Going

I remember, especially like when I was in high school, going to see like Dawn of the Dead and it was like mayhem in the theater and you could barely even watch the movie. It was so fun.

School Fun High School Dawn Remember

The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character, its successful outcome, were due to that most remarkable character, Governor Hunt.

Mary Harris Jones

Character History American Peaceful

I would support peaceful co-existence between religion and science because they concern different domains. Anyone who takes theology seriously knows that it's not a matter of using it to explain things that scientists are mystified by.

Science Religion Support Peaceful

In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.

Performance Television New Agency

Entrepreneurs always begin the journey believing that they have the next big idea. They dream of the fame and fortune that awaits them if only they had the funding to pursue it. But the reality is that as the product is built and shared with customers, flaws in their concept are discovered that - if not overcome - will kill the business.

Business Journey Reality Dream Flaws

Doing makeup was a way to create characters, only I got tired of doing it for other people.

Tired People Makeup Doing Create

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