George Matthew Adams Quotes

The easiest thing in the world is to succeed. You can't help it if you follow the rules and play the game the best way you know how according to yourself, instead of according to the one next to you, or above you, or somewhere away from you.

George Matthew Adams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BestYourselfSucceedWorldGame

There were some situations where I was giving up everything I had for the band and I just expected everybody else to feel the same way. I realized I was just kidding myself.

Jerry Only

MyselfFeelGivingGiving UpWayUp

I think it would be bad to a truly successful celebrity person, because I know these novelists where people get a cult following, and they have some strange personal attachment to them because it's so personal to read a book.

Andrew Sean Greer

PeopleBookThinkBadPersonKnow

I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J. D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which is probably not all that progressive, and it's not really going to make me a better reader.

John Krasinski

LoveMeBookBetterProgressiveGuy

No enemy is worse than bad advice.

Sophocles

AdviceBadEnemyWorseThan

I think as you get older, there are things that there's just no light side to, but you know, I guess the more you empathise with people, the more empathy you have, the less you are able to see the lighter side.

Steve Toltz

LightEmpathyPeopleThinkYouKnow

My first priority is time with my family.

Tom Selleck

FamilyTimeFirstPriority

You can divide my life into two.

Lord Mountbatten

LifeMy LifeYouTwoDivide

Governor Romney has said nothing about preschool. I think that giving the poorest kids in America wonderful preschool, and three years of it, starting when they are two-and-a-half, is absolutely crucial.

Jonathan Kozol

ThinkGivingAmericaSaidThree

Was not from a mixture of two races that the Titans sprang?

Jose Clemente Orozco

TwoTitansMixtureRaces

Anonymous comments? You're not in the arena, man. If you can't say it to me in person in front of my kids, don't say it.

Brene Brown

ManMeYouPersonSayKids

I'm really not for famous people who design a line for a company, when you know it's not really them creating it but a team of designers, especially when there are so many talented people who've taken the time to go and study fashion.

Bonnie Wright

TimePeopleTeamFashionDesignYou

We live in an increasingly sophisticated world that makes it difficult to make simple comments on stuff. There are too many people on both sides of the border who are taking advantage of circumstances and the situation.

Arlo Guthrie

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