Harvey Mackay Quotes

Direct your energy toward achieving a goal, and tackle the problems with an emphasis on edging closer to a successful result.

Harvey Mackay

Recitation: by Male by Female

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EnergyProblemsResultGoalTackle

Twitter, it can be said, completely changed the way activism is done, who can participate, and even how we define it.

Jenna Wortham

SaidDoneWayActivismDefineEven

For many years, I read mystery novels for relaxation. But my tastes were too narrow - and, having read all of Agatha Christie and John Dickson Carr, I discovered that the implausibility and the thinness of the people distracted me unduly from the plot.

John Updike

PeopleMeMysteryYearsReadPlot

Somebody who has been in a very bad wreck is going to be very conscientious about not speeding through a yellow light... You just learn so many good lessons when you go through a failed marriage.

Amy Grant

GoodMarriageLightYellowLearnGo

If you read the poets of the 19th century in Latin America, you would see that Havana or Mexico City or Buenos Aires are incredibly modern and global cities that they were not. And eventually they became real, and they became real because people read these books and tried to live in a better world.

Alvaro Enrigue

LivePeopleCityWorldBetterYou

In Europe, the director is the king: it's his vision. It's an auteur tradition.

Stellan Skarsgard

VisionKingTraditionDirectorHis

Sometimes, you need different things in life, you need different challenges that will give you that little boost.

Robbie Keane

LifeChallengesYouSometimesWill

I read too many romance novels during my formative years. I have a penchant for romantic comedies. I understand why 'Romeo and Juliet' came to such a pass.

Roxane Gay

RomanticWhyUnderstandRomancePass

When I was growing up, my father helped kindle my passion for innovation and technology. He was a high-ranking executive at AT&T and used our family dinner table as a focus group.

Denise Morrison

FamilyFatherTechnologyPassion

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.

Arnold Palmer

EffortYouOddsAlwaysAgainstEven

My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't quite find the flower but keeps jabbing around.

Anne Lamott

FlowerMotherSonEyesFindAlways

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

Arthur Koestler

HistoryManWarSoundThroughDrums

I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.

Tyrone Power

PatienceDoneMonumentAwfulStuff

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