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James Anthony Froude Quotes

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.

James Anthony Froude

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: english
Birth: April 23, 1818 - October 20, 1894

Topics

Good Feet Enthusiasm Person Thirty

When I was young, I was just about hard work. But as I got older, I did experience anxiety, doubt, judgment, and it's so easy to lose yourself for a second.

Work Hard Work Experience Yourself

It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes.

Maureen Forrester

Mistakes Blame Better Person Better

Now I'm writing about contemporary Los Angeles from memory. My process was to hang out, observe, research what I was writing about, and almost immediately go back to my office and write those sections. So it was a very close transfer between observation and writing.

Michael Connelly

Memory Research Writing Process Back

In running Wilson Sonsini, it's all people-to-people skills. Those people-to-people skills translate into diplomatic skills.

Skills Running Those Translate

I think it's a fallacy to say that a good book sells itself. It doesn't happen. I'm a voracious reader and I can give you a long list of books which should have been best sellers but they aren't. How can you buy a book if you haven't heard of it?

Good Best Book Think Long You

That's what's good about the digital revolution is it makes information asymmetry much harder to maintain.

Stephen J. Dubner

Good Revolution Information Digital

He's been doing this a long time. Hats off to a champion, Carlos Condit.

Time Champion Doing Long Long Time

When we did a lot of that Motown stuff there were four of us on the front line. When we started the evening we'd start from one end of the band and just go along. The lead singer would change all the time. That's the first time that I actually managed to put it into a record.

Change Time Start Evening End Go

I get really into research. I know people say that, but I'm really into research.

People Research Know Say People Say

Get mad, then get over it.

Anger Mad Over Over It Get Then

A well-functioning microfinance bank can actually be a profitable business as well. So it became a perfect proof point that, through business, you can provide an experience that leads to individual self-empowerment.

Business Experience You Perfect Bank

To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring people around me.

Child People Me Dinner Listening

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