Helen Keller Quotes

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

Helen Keller

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 27, 1880 - June 1, 1968

Topics

ExperiencePeopleShortLookFind

They say pregnancies can differ depending on whether you're carrying a girl or boy, so for me, I think having a little boy is definitely easier on my body - or I'm just better prepared!

Jessie James Decker

GirlMeThinkBetterYouBody

I'll go on '60 Minutes,' and whereas other parents would be like, 'You did a great job. I'm so proud of you,' my mother will be like, 'Your hair - it was not nice.'

Maysoon Zayid

MotherGreatJobParentsHairProud

One of the eternal mysteries of ballet is how untalented choreographers find backers for their work, and then find good dancers to perform in it. Is it irresistible charm? Chutzpah? Pure determination? Blackmail? Or are so many supposedly knowledgeable people just plain blind?

Robert Gottlieb

WorkGoodDeterminationPeopleBlind

The main functions of intelligence, that of inventing solutions and that of verifying them, do not necessarily involve one another. The first partakes of imagination; the second alone is properly logical.

Jean Piaget

AloneImaginationIntelligenceFirst

I do have odd habits. I check under my bed every night for the bogeyman. That's just a little thing, though.

Tori Spelling

NightBedLittleCheckJustOdd

If I don't get the service or if I don't the ball in the box, where I want it, I start drifting into midfield. I go and look for the ball. I try to be important for the team in other areas.

Ruud van Nistelrooy

ServiceTeamStartLookImportant

If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.

Michael Phelps

BestPeopleYouWantThingsWilling

There are several insights at the heart of the A's system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it's a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for god's sake don't go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy.

Michael Lewis

GodHeartBaseballTeamGameThink

For the most part, I think of PC as meaning Plain Civil. You treat people the way you'd like to be treated yourself, and that means not using language that is demeaning.

Jay Parini

YourselfPeopleTreatThinkLanguage

I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while.

Joshua Lederberg

TalentWishNewI WishClutterWell

Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize.

Jonathan Raymond

MeAlwaysPrizeConsolationStruck

I am a human being. I started out with virtually nothing. I worked my way up like so many businesspeople have and made ourselves great in this country. And that is what we have to make sure we preserve for our grandchildren and future generations all the way through.

Douglas R. Oberhelman

FutureGreatI AmGrandchildrenWay

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