Edwin Markham Quotes

Spain held the doctrine (and was right in holding it) that every human enterprise should stand on two pillars - the temporal and the spiritual. To depend upon one of these pillars alone is to call down final failure upon any undertaking.

Edwin Markham

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 23, 1852 - March 7, 1940

Topics

FailureAloneSpiritualStandDown

It's through working with a lot of first-time directors that I realized that people learn on their feet. Everybody works on something for a different reason. Everybody has got something new to learn on these sets, and you don't have to know everything, the second you start.

Jess Weixler

PeopleStartFeetLearnYouKnow

I've never been someone who's been given work because of the way I look or because I have some box office appeal. I get work because people know I'm swinging as hard as I can, trying to connect, giving it my level best. I have a face for radio, but here I am doing what I do.

John C. Reilly

WorkBestI AmPeopleFaceGiving

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

DoorWorldWillCleanEveryoneOwn

At an individual level just as much as a corporate level, this notion of if you're not really passionate about the work you're doing in a world of mounting pressure, you're going to experience more and more stress. You're going to burn out. You're going to become marginalized.

John Hagel III

WorkExperienceStressWorldDoing

Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.

Andre Malraux

ManWorldWishesHumanMadeKnows

I really used my own imagination a lot and made a number of suggestions during my tenure on 'Star Trek.'

Robert Picardo

ImaginationMy OwnOwnStarUsed

My father was very bright. My mother had enormous drive. Put that together, and that's my gene pool.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

FatherMotherTogetherDrivePool

It's one thing to be writing in South or Latin America, where, except for Brazil, every country, however small and hard to find on a map, speaks Spanish, but quite another to be writing in, say, Hungary, a landlocked nation of 10 million people, with a language that very few people outside Hungary can read or speak.

Michael Korda

PeopleWritingSmallSpeakLanguage

Every year, jobs are on the line.

Jason Pierre-Paul

YearLineEveryJobs

Pearl Harbor was the defining event in my life. It shaped who I am, and all of my hang-ups and my drives, I think, stem from that.

David Suzuki

LifeI AmThinkMy LifePearl Harbor

Several hard-core Star Wars fans who had tickets for the first showing actually said that when the movie finally began, they started crying. Mainly because they realized that it's 22 years later, and they still haven't lost their virginity.

Conan O'Brien

LostSaidFirstYearsFansStar

One of the reasons Batman works as a character is that it's not beyond possibility that he could exist - you could become Batman if you had a billion dollars at your disposal. There's nothing paranormal or superhuman or supernatural about that character. And I think his villains work the same way. You could be one of his villains just as easily.

Brian Azzarello

WorkCharacterThinkYouWayBecome

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