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Charles Edison Quotes

Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.

Charles Edison

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: August 3, 1890 - July 31, 1969

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Job Man Attention Will Hand More

I remember while I was at school some of my Muslim friends talked about a handful of people spoiling things in every culture. Hatred or hurt or pain isn't specific to a religion. I think it's a matter of acceptance. The one thing the world has to accept is everybody is different. What is normal to us is different and unusual to somebody else.

Jessie J

Culture Acceptance Religion Pain

Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.

Alvin Adams

Failure Little Diplomacy Different

I was, for some reason, born knowing how to get married.

Tracy McMillan

Born Knowing Reason Get Some How

When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family?

Robin Williams

Family Think Someone You Look Royal

You can play as good as you want, but you have to sing from a place of living.

Ry Cooder

Good You Place Play Want Living

From when I young, a lot of the things I grappled with, with instruments, was how large they were. When someone places a large guitar in your lap, it's hard - I'd learned how to play a guitar when I was a kid, but I never really felt like I was in control.

Lou Barlow

Control Guitar Someone Play Young

By and large we have got to find the good leaders to work with to make sure that we build the strength in these communities. Simply issuing edicts from Canberra isn't going to solve issues on the APY lands.

Jay Weatherill

Work Strength Good Find Build Going

I am strongly committed to pursuing the dual goals that Congress has assigned us: maximum employment and price stability.

Janet Yellen

Goals I Am Price Congress Employment

I got married and I had children because of the Second World War, as all of us did, exclaiming, 'Oh, no, we are never going to bring a child into this wicked world,' but we had children by the dozen and got married.

Doris Lessing

Children War Child World Never Us

My dad is basically my best friend. I'm that dude's spitting image and couldn't be more proud of that. They just don't come any better than my dad.

Coy Bowles

Friend Best Best Friend Proud Better

This is the United States of America. It means we respond to our fellow Americans in times of crisis and emergency and disaster.

Bob Menendez

America Crisis Emergency Respond Our

If I had to choose, I would always take the less dynamic, indeed even the lazy person who knows what's right than the zealot in the cause of error. He may move slower, but he's headed in the right direction.

Antonin Scalia

Direction Choose Person Lazy Right