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Calvin Coolidge Quotes

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Calvin Coolidge

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: president
Nationality: american
Birth: July 4, 1872 - January 5, 1933

Topics

Education Failure Determination Alone

Patience is the best medicine.

Patience Best Medicine

I have long been puzzled by the entrenched mentality, and often enforced practice, of longer work hours and less sleep. Innumerable policies exist within the workplace regarding smoking, substance abuse, ethical behaviour, and injury and disease prevention.

Work Sleep Practice Smoking Long

The hardest thing I have done is given up power.

Power Done Up Hardest Given Thing

I think that if you're a writer and a woman, then you have to take humiliation very well.

Woman Think You Take Well Writer

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

Age Great Talent People Youth Glory

Work is an addiction. I've always done too much. It's in my nature.

Jonathan Anderson

Work Nature Too Much Done Addiction

Even during my father's 1984 gubernatorial campaign, it was, 'Do you want to grow up and be governor one day?' 'No. I am four.'

Chelsea Clinton

Father Day I Am Grow You Want

The thing is, so much of the African American experience is about the redefinition of roots because of slavery. We were uprooted, and there's so much about our whole legacy that was stolen and that we lost in the Transatlantic slave trade that we'll never find out.

Cheo Hodari Coker

Experience Roots Slavery Legacy Find

I learned from Jehovah's Witnesses that a fatalistic view is counterproductive.

View Jehovah Learned Witnesses

I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.

Think Exercise Too Much Important

I don't care if I put people off.

People Care Off Put

I was doing a show in L.A. called 'Celebrity Autobiography,' where celebrities read excerpts from other celebrities' books and hang themselves with their own rope.

Doing Celebrity Rope Own Hang Where

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