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Samuel Smiles Quotes

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

Samuel Smiles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Nature Best Men Well-Being Active

I look back on my 20s. It's supposed to be the prime of your life, the most vital, the most beautiful. But you're making your critical decisions and sometimes your most critical mistakes.

Ann Brashares

Life Beautiful Mistakes Decisions

I think a lot of people are too safe in the makeup industry.

Jeffree Star

People Makeup Think Safe Industry

Poirot is a classic character from fiction, not a MacBook Air; he would not benefit from updates.

Sophie Hannah

Character Classic Air Fiction Would

I am not a very social person and have a few friends who have been with me since school and college. I hate going to parties and events and would rather sit at home and watch TV. Parties are the place where controversies happen.

Sonakshi Sinha

Home Hate School I Am College Me

Working is a bonus; working on something you love is a bonus, and getting to do it for a long time is the ultimate.

Simon Helberg

Love Time Love Is Long You Working

I hate it when people come up to me when I'm eating.

Shirley Bassey

Hate People Me Eating Up Come

It's this idea that success changes you as a person... I've never seen my career that way.

Mary Balogh

Success You Career Person Way Never

We're all concerned about sustainable energy. If we could recycle waste heat to generate energy, we could use it for something useful.

Mildred Dresselhaus

Energy Heat Something Useful Waste

The difference between 'lighght' and another type of poem with more words is that it doesn't have a reading process. Even a five-word poem has a beginning, middle, and end. A one-word poem doesn't. You can see it all at once. It's instant.

Aram Saroyan

Beginning Words Reading Process End

Time is something that interests me a whole lot - past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

Alice Munro

Change Time Past People Me Present

I'd like a telescope, but I probably wouldn't look at the stars that often. I'd definitely be looking into people's flats most of the time.

Alison Goldfrapp

Stars Time People Looking Look Like

I focus a fair amount of my time on ensuring that we have a good funnel of females coming into the company and then that we're retaining that as well and making sure that we have comfortable environments for them to be successful in.

Peggy Johnson

Good Time Focus Comfortable Fair