Lady Gregory Quotes

When I was a child and came with my elders to Galway for their salmon fishing in the river that rushes past the gaol, I used to look with awe at the window where men were hung, and the dark, closed gate.

Lady Gregory

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: dramatist
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: March 15, 1852 - May 22, 1932

Topics

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Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another.

Jocko Willink

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It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.

Jenny Craig

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I do think - I always tell that to young people - go to college, do theater, work with an audience. Don't try to learn how to act in front of millions and millions of people. Don't make that your first ambition, to be on a sitcom or get into the movies. Learn who you are as an actor, and the best way to do that is to do it in front of an audience.

John Lithgow

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The industry has to learn how to do CEO succession well. If your definition of success is Intel or Microsoft or HP or IBM, that's not a good track record, and yet they are the most successful ones.

John T. Chambers

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Whenever you see shrinks on television, they're so clearly written by patients. They're either idealized or they're demonized or they love their patients. All they ever think about is their patients.

Amy Bloom

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I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, 'What for?' I said, 'I'm going to buy some sugar.'

Steven Wright

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I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.

Tony Bennett

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The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; it's an event.

Tom Stoppard

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Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Louis D. Brandeis

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Loyalty and communication are always rewarded in sports.

Cheech Marin

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You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.

Bob Nelson

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Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

Arthur C. Clarke

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