Finding Quotes - page 7

I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject. (Clint Eastwood)
One of the big secrets of finding time is not to watch television. View quote
Bob Keeshan
Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion. View quote
Seth Godin
Perhaps your challenge isn't finding a better project or a better boss. Perhaps you need to get in touch with what it means to feel passionate. People with passion look for ways to make things happen. View quote
Seth Godin
Don't ask God to cure cancer & world poverty. He's too busy finding you a parking space & fixing the weather for your barbecue. View quote
Richard Dawkins
I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned. View quote
Orlando Bloom
There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist. View quote
Terry Pratchett
If you're looking at the Bible for a guide to living a compassionate, wise and humane life, well, frankly you've got more chance of finding a lap dancing club in Mecca or a virgin in a catholic orphanage. View quote
Pat Condell
I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one. View quote
Vitruvius
One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves; one must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
There is no more time-wasting process than that of believing people will act, and then finding that they will not. (Bill Mollison)
You find me offensive? I find you offensive, for finding me offensive. View quote
Eminem
The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it... but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding out what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed. View quote
Stanisław Lem
So I think there is one rule every host and hostess ought to keep with the comb and nail file and bicarbonate and aromatic spirits on a handy shelf, Which is don't spoil the denouement by telling the guests everything is terrible, but let them have the thrill of finding it out for themselves. View quote
Ogden Nash
The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength -- each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in the future; it cares only about one thing finding out exactly what should or should not be done in this lifetime. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. View quote
Sam Keen
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like. View quote
Jackie Mason
I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers. View quote
Frank Harris
Cincinnatus was ploughing his four jugera of land upon the Vaticanian Hill,-the same that are still known as the Quintian Meadows,-when the messenger brought him the dictatorship, finding him, the tradition says, stripped to the work. (Pliny the Elder)
Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there. View quote
Meryl Streep
So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for success, but merely being willing to risk the experiment of finding whether the truth they seek lies there. View quote
René Descartes
The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
A man forced to spend his life without ever having the right, without ever finding the time, to shut himself up all alone, no matter where, to think, to reflect, to work, to dream? Ah! my dear boy, a key, the key of a door which one can lock - this is happiness, mark you, the only happiness! View quote
Guy de Maupassant