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Orison Swett Marden Quotes

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Orison Swett Marden

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1850 - 1924

Topics

Strength Great Men Wait Strong Weak

By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Man Mind Feet Philosophy Hands Aid

I'm very ticklish. They say being tickled is a form of torture.

Melissa Sagemiller

Say They Say Torture Being Very

My dad used to hunt ducks, and my mom would put them in the pot. We lived really modestly. We had very little money.

Money Mom Little Lived Used Would

In England, it's always raining, and I feel like I'm expert in that field.

Matthew Williamson

Feel Raining Always Expert Like

The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters.

King Los Angeles Riots Were Verdict

Big game hunters and the hunting industry in South Africa know a lot of people regard what they do as terrible, and the media have tended not to do them any favours. So it was an uphill struggle to win trust from the people and to get into the world.

Trust Struggle People Win World

I understand what training camp is for. It's needed. It's necessary, so it's just one of those things that you have to put yourself through and it makes you better. It gets you in good shape, so it's necessary.

Good Yourself Training Better You

People in the U.S. pay a great deal of money to support their judiciary, and they have an actual right to see how it functions.

Great Money Support People Pay See

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Food Me You Will Eat Tell

He's one of those managers you'd give your left leg to play for.

You Play Leg Left Give Your

Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two of which will be polishing drafts. The ones in between will flesh out the characters and maybe I'll check my research.

Colleen McCullough

Research Down Will More First Out

My brother's an aerospace engineer who works for Boeing, and I started thinking, 'Well, my brother works nine hours a day at his job... What if I worked nine hours a day at being an actor?'

Day Job Brother Thinking Actor Well

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