George Matthew Adams Quotes

People who look down never get much of an idea of the sky where the stars are set. And the fellow who doesn't hitch at least one or two of his wagons to a star never gets very high up. Get your eyes off the ground. Look ahead.

George Matthew Adams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: editor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 23, 1878 - October 29, 1962

Topics

StarsEyesSkyPeopleLookDown

I've always had pop-star crushes. I had a huge crush on Ian Brown.

Maxine Peake

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Government should take care of those in America who can't care for themselves. That's a role of government.

John McCain

GovernmentCareTake CareAmerica

In the morning, we sliced all the vegetables and layered everything up in a pot with a glass of Riesling. On the way to church, we dropped it off with the baker, who sealed the lid with a strip of dough and put it in his oven for a couple of hours. We picked it up at 12 o'clock and took it home to eat with mustard and salad.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

HomeMorningChurchVegetablesWay

I've never really been the type of person who worries much about what people think of me.

Stephen Baldwin

PeopleMeThinkPersonNeverBeen

I'd never worn a tie before. I was a bushman.

Steven Adams

NeverTieBeforeWorn

You would think that when someone accepts a position with a company, they would assume that their life will be better off because they have that job rather than a different one.

Tom Rath

LifeJobThinkBetterSomeoneYou

I found school quite tough, but Saturday night was movie night, and I started to empathise with the characters on screen. I started to get more involved with what these people were experiencing. Film inspired me to do better.

Joseph Mawle

SchoolPeopleMeNightToughBetter

In the future, you won't buy artists' works; you'll buy software that makes original pieces of 'their' works, or that recreates their way of looking at things. You could buy a Shostakovich box, or you could buy a Brahms box. You might want some Shostakovich slow-movement-like music to be generated. So then you use that box.

Brian Eno

FutureMusicLookingYouWantWay

I can get my voicemail transcribed and sent to me as e-mail. I want to be able to have my address book and all my life come up on my TV and video chat. The whole telecommunications experience through a wire is still very relevant.

Brian L. Roberts

LifeExperienceMeBookMy LifeUp

The best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other.

Chuck Palahniuk

TrustBestFriendsStrangersBetween

Stress on fast growing companies comes from a lot of different places. The one that is often the largest, and creates the most second-order issues, is the composition of the leadership team. More specifically, it's specific people on the leadership who don't have the scale experience their role requires at a particular moment in time.

Brad Feld

LeadershipTimeMomentStressPeople

I once prayed when struggling financially and worried how I was going to be able to assist my parents in their latter years living thousands of miles away, to help me win the lottery or something. And I did win the lottery, just in a different and better way.

Phyllis Smith

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