- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
More Quotes
Quotes on wanting and having more.
These quotes explore the idea of 'more' - a director admitting to more confidence behind the camera than as a writer, and a novelist noting how fictional characters can carry more vitality than the people around them. Related pages include Life Quotes.
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- Half
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
- Will
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage ground.
- Contribution
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- Nov 07, 2020
Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual's contribution far more than the individual himself.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was quite ready to accept certain restrictions on the United States. After all, there was a great dollar shortage. It was quite clear that the more prosperous Europe became, the more business there would be in the United States.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
- Revelation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020