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Og Mandino Quotes

To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.

Og Mandino

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: December 12, 1923 - September 3, 1996

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Cold Thinking Stand Doing Worth

I wanted to write about the experiences of the poor and the black and the rural people of the South.

Jesmyn Ward

People Black Poor Write Rural About

I went to play in Brazil when I had just turned 18 and was the world's top junior player. I got to the airport, and no one knew who I was. I couldn't speak any Portuguese, and no one spoke English. Then someone said something that resembled 'tennis,' and I went with that.

John McEnroe

World Speak Someone Play Airport

There are times when being scandalous or provocative can help bring focus to issues of major concern.

Maurizio Cattelan

Focus Help Bring Being Issues Major

You could argue that Barack Obama faced in '08 a situation as bad as any president since the Great Depression. What Obama inherited from the Bush administration, we all remember, was just an absolute global catastrophe.

Tony Kushner

Great Depression Great Depression You

People don't trust the federal government as it relates to health care.

Mike Conaway

Health Trust Government People Care

My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical.

Michael Tippett

Imagination Society Tradition Create

Most of my cousins are boys, so I'm used to being around boys.

Michelle Ryan

Cousins Used Being Most Around

I could never just play in a pub in front of four people because I would have had all the press turn up. That way, you don't get to build up naturally. It makes the work feel unnatural, and puts a lot of unnatural pressure on you.

Dhani Harrison

Work People Pressure Feel You Play

The thing I liked most about 'Lois & Clark,' we were a fun show. Some of the later 'Superman' stuff is so dark, but I prefer 'Superman' to be a character of light and hope. I prefer the lighter romance and humor.

Dean Cain

Character Hope Light Humor Fun Dark

My music is how I feel, and that's changed from being twenty years old to being forty-three years old.

Chris Robinson

Music Feel Old Years Being Changed

A textbook requires a consistent sense of style and a linear structure, hallmarks of a single authorial presence. An encyclopedia doesn't.

Clive Thompson

Style Structure Single Presence

I'm not the only one working for democracy in Burma - there are so many people who have worked for it because they believe that this is the only way we can maintain the dignity of our people.

Aung San Suu Kyi

People Democracy Believe Dignity Way