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Cavett Robert Quotes

Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: 1907

Topics

Life Man Goal Own Limitations Who

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

You Settle Deserve Minute Get Even

In 1997, Alain de Botton published his book 'How Proust Can Change Your Life.' I was charmed by it. I remember using it in a course on cultural criticism for a graduate class that had a mix of theorists and creative writers.

Life Change Creative Book Criticism

As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.

Freedom American Dream Government Own

When I was four years old, my father, who was a colonel in the army, was stationed in Salzburg, Austria. Across the street from our house was an ancient castle on a cliff. So when I first heard fairy tales, I felt as if the magic of 'Cinderella' or 'Sleeping Beauty' was taking place right in my own neighborhood.

Mary Pope Osborne

Beauty Father Magic House Place

Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried.

Me Energy Feel Get Ease I Feel

I've always been blessed, or cursed, some might say, with an insatiable curiosity, a desire to find something out about a people and a place. That's where it all begins.

People Blessed Curiosity Find Place

People look for patterns in everything. It's what keeps us sane, I suppose. I struggle to see any patterns in my life. I think I can understand depression a bit because of my sister. My own feelings of... I'm aware that, if you feel down, it can be strangely unrelated to circumstances around you. That's just the way life is.

Life Depression Struggle Sister Look

I'm trying to get an acting gig on 'CSI' or something like that, so we'll see how that works out. I'm a singer, definitely not an actor, so I just follow directions.

Trying Acting Actor Follow Singer

Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers themselves.

Will Become Digital Disappear

Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.

Jonathan Edwards

Friendship God Heart Prayer Believe

So often when we historicize material, we use this big wide-angle lens.

Jonathan Evison

Lens Big Use Material Often

When I hear the piano played in a compositional way, like in a songwriter's way in a compositional way, there's a certain arc to that that I love.

Love Way Piano Songwriter Like Hear

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