Orison Swett Marden Quotes

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Orison Swett Marden

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There are certain aspects that I miss of coaching. But you can't just pick out the good parts. You've got to be all-in and understand there's some negatives, too.

Jeff Van Gundy

GoodCoachingYouUnderstandOut

I couldn't resist painting Orpheus and Charon on the River Styx. There was something strangely intriguing about seeing Orpheus playing his lyre as he is being shuttled across the river.

John Rocco

RiverPaintingSeeingSomethingHe

Some people will humiliate themselves or their families just to be on television.

Steve Schirripa

PeopleTelevisionWillSome People

I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano lessons and I was doing classes in music theory and composition.

Rohinton Mistry

MusicWifeSchoolVoiceDoingShe

The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.

Mary Kay Blakely

KnowledgeMeYearsInspiredMagical

Nobody is born a dancer.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

BornNobodyDancer

Mitch Glazer and I went to high school together, and his mother was my English teacher for two years. She was my favorite teacher, and I followed Mitch's career as a journalist, so we've kind of kept in touch over the years.

Mickey Rourke

MotherTeacherTogetherSchoolKind

Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a direct experience of what I'm writing about.

Michael Pollan

ExperienceWritingStandFinding

I don't find movies interesting. I just want to do the movies that made me interested in getting into movies, and they're few and far between.

Jason Patric

MeInterestingFindWantMoviesFar

For many comedians, two common anxiety triggers include performing in front of family members and doing brand new material.

Josh Gondelman

FamilyBrandAnxietyDoingNewTwo

No one has any respect for someone who can play a million notes per minute but can't put together a decent tune that someone can sing to or feel some sort of emotion from.

Johnny Marr

RespectTogetherFeelSomeonePlay

I'm a carb queen. I'll always order macaroni and cheese, but I don't want it to be fancy. I want it to be as close to Kraft Services as it can possibly get!

Drew Barrymore

QueenCheeseWantAlwaysFancyGet

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