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Orison Swett Marden Quotes

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

Orison Swett Marden

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Success Great Struggle Battle Price

White writers in many cases choose not to populate their fiction with people of color. A lot of what I'm doing is trying to write against that, not about race but against the avoidance of race that's such a dominant model in white literary discourse.

People Color Doing Trying Choose

I think how you start the day many times determines what kind of day you're going to have.

Day Start Think You Kind Going

My feeling is that you don't go looking for troubles. The cross ought to find you. And so I never go out of my way. I figure I only get involved in things that I can't get around.

Looking You Feeling Find Go Way

It's good to be noticed.

I've just been fortunate to havehad a lot of hit records, though Human Wheels doesn't qualify as a hit record-but it's really the best single I've ever had.

John Mellencamp

Best Human Single Wheels Fortunate

These days I can really get the strings to snap if I want.

I Can Want Days Strings Get Really

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

Stephen Jay Gould

Life Opportunity Hope Science Lying

Eventually I realised there must be a way by playing with the molecules; trying to turn the molecules on and off allows you to see adjacent things you couldn't see before.

Trying You Way See Turn Playing

I'm a plagiarist - I always look back at other movies, and I steal, but I steal well, and I reinvent.

Look Back Movies Always Reinvent

I think the tradition of philanthropy is far better developed in the U.S. than in India, as is the whole notion of giving away 50% of your wealth while you are still living and not waiting till you're gone.

Romesh Wadhwani

Waiting Think Better Giving You

I don't know if I like getting hit, but I try to draw contact.

Know Try Contact Like Hit Getting

Jose Mourinho has been really clear about what he expects from me, saying he wants me working hard rather than just scoring. Hard work is what he values.

Work Hard Work Me Saying Values

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