#matt

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#carefully #dreams #goals #gusto #how

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#benefit #endeavor #equivalent #every #field

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#any #defense #exists #idea #institution

The work will stand, no matter what. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#stand #will #work

There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#child #get #how #matter #mature

Nothing in the reporting of a nation's history could so mislead the younger generation as to represent great events in such a way that they appear to have happened as a matter of course. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#could #course #events #generation #great

What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

#giving up #going #i #i can #keep

It's just that when you heard hip-hop, no matter where you were, it was a culture that kind of made you want to try to be part of it. Whether you thought you were an artist, whether you thought you could be a DJ, whether you thought you could breakdance, or whether you thought you could rap. It was the kind of culture that had a lot of open doors. ↗

— Ice T

#could #culture #dj #doors #had

I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am president the less of a party man I seem to become. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#am #become #constant #disappointment #fact

A lot of people think I'm cynical when I talk about acting. The truth of the matter is, I just don't want someone to get some lame advice that will send them in the wrong direction. ↗

— Amber Tamblyn

#acting #advice #cynical #direction #get