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Samuel Smiles Quotes

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

Samuel Smiles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: scottish
Birth: December 23, 1812 - April 16, 1904

Topics

Work Men Suffering Tide Done Duty

There's a horrible fallacy that exists in the popular discussion of fiction these days: the idea that a successful central character need be 'likeable' or 'sympathetic'. It is surely more important that they be human, no? More crucial that they breathe?

Andrew O'Hagan

Character Important More Human Need

I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare.

John Mayer

Woman Dating Disappointment Guilt

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.

Robert Smithson

History Time Art Rest Faster Than

I've always respected Coach Frank. I kind of publicly recruited him because I really need him and want him. I'm kind of the college recruiter now because he brings a lot to the table. He's had success here and understands the good and the bad, so I'm recruiting him to join my staff.

Jason Kidd

Success Good College Bad Table Kind

I do not mean for one second to suggest that 'White Doves at Morning' was written with a movie deal in mind. Certainly not.

Clive Sinclair

Morning Mind White Mean Deal Second

The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word.

Bob Edwards

Picture Help You Perfect Pictures

When you sit on something for so long you can't see beyond it. It's all you can see, so you become locked in it.

Anthony Hemingway

Long You Beyond Become See Sit

I must stress, basically, the very fact that we do have orangutan rehabilitation means that we have failed to do what is really important, and that is rescue the wild orangutan in its habitat.

Willie Smits

Stress Important Wild Rescue Must

It's amazing having so many people care so much about what I'm doing.

Shawn Mendes

People Amazing Care Doing Much Many

By the time my first album was out, I had been out in Jamaica three or four years, but I had hits out at that time that were bona fide hits.

Sean Paul

Time Three First Years Out Four

I've become increasingly fascinated with social media to improve on traditional ways of preparing for and predicting the future.

Noreena Hertz

Future Social Media Media Become

I'm the opposite of someone like David Grossman, who knows how his characters walk, and how they smell. I don't allow myself to imagine what mine look like at all. My sense of them comes from the inside. They remain, by necessity, physically vague in my mind.

Nicole Krauss

Myself Walk Mind Someone Look Smell