Amount Quotes

• All students enter law school with a certain amount of idealism and desire to serve the public, but after three years of brutal competition we care for nothing but the right job with the right firm where we can make partner in seven years and earn big bucks.

  John Grisham

  Jobs, School, Years

  John Grisham (1995). “The Rainmaker”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there, undigested all your life. We must have life-building, man-making, character-makin g, assimilation of ideas. If you have assimilated five ideas and made them your life and character, you have more education than any man who has got by heart a whole library.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Running, Heart, Character

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• Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Expression, Meditation, Research

  "Larry King Weekend", www.cnn.com. May 12, 2002.

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• Well, I think it’s extraordinarily fun to write, and I look forward to it every day, but that doesn’t mean I think it’s easy. There’s a difference between the two. It’s fun in the way all worthwhile things are fun – there’s difficulty attached to it. I think that a writer has to accept a certain amount of frustration. It’s inherent in the task, and you have to simply persevere. It’s part of the definition of the work.

  David Guterson

  Fun, Writing, Mean

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• It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

  Voltaire

  Peace, Crazy, War

  "Rights". Book by Voltaire, 1771.

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• All sources are not equal. When you get information, you take the information, you evaluate it, and you do the best you can with it. So, there's a variance in the quality and the amount of the information. It's a case-by-case basis. Each one's different. There's no set formulas.

  Bill Belichick

  Quality, Different, Information

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I wanted to be sure that my donation did two things: went directly into the hands of hurricane victims and that it was an amount that could really impact their lives and make a difference.

  Dr. Dre

  Impact, Hands, Two

  "For the record: quick news on Nick and Jessica, Dr.Dre, Green Day, Ashanti, Pitbull, Wyclef Jean & more". www.mtv.com. October 5, 2005.

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• What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld characters, the inhabitants of the vast common realm of memories that have gone down below the level of conscious control. It may be they are. The degree of emotional involvement and the amount of free association with the material being photographed would point in that direction.

  Aaron Siskind

  Photography, Memories, Character

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• You can make yourself happy or miserable - it's the same amount of effort.

  Ray Bradbury

  Happiness, Effort, Miserable

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• I've lost tremendous amounts of money in various markets and I think that that's something that makes you better at my job, not worse.

  Jim Cramer

  Money, Jobs, Thinking

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• In any decision situation, the amount of relevant information available is inversely proportional to the importance of the decision.

  Paul Dickson

  Decision, Information, Importance

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• Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Library, Research, Management

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.491, Oxford University Press

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• I spent the first twenty years of my running career trying to run as many miles as I could as fast as I could. Then I spent the next twenty years trying to figure out how to run the least amount of miles needed to finish a marathon. And I've come to the conclusion the second way is much more enjoyable.

  Jeff Galloway

  Running, Years, Careers

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• I have now reigned above fifty years in victory and peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to be wanting for my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: they amount to fourteen. O man, place not thy confidence in this present world!

  Abd-ar-Rahman III

  Happiness, Peace, Men

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• Congratulations offer more potential than cash. The amount of available cash is limited, but managers have an unlimited supply of congratulations. It's important to pay people fairly, but managers also should heap on congratulations and feed people's souls.

  Ken Blanchard

  Congratulations, People, Soul

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• Rugby football is a game I can't claim absolutely to understand in all its niceties, if you know what I mean. I can follow the broad, general principles, of course. I mean to say, I know that the main scheme is to work the ball down the field somehow and deposit it over the line at the other end and that, in order to squalch this programme, each side is allowed to put in a certain amount of assault and battery and do things to its fellow man which, if done elsewhere, would result in 14 days without the option, coupled with some strong remarks from the Bench.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Football, Strong, Mean

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• White Hot Concentration is the unappreciated fruit of hard ligting, especially squats. When your in the squat rack, with a serious amount of weight overhead, your life literally depends on maintaining concentration. You learn to block out the swirling images in the mirror, the obnoxious chatter of the people next to you, the fat drop of sweat running down your nose. Once you've mastered this concentration in the weight room, duplicating it on the race course is relatively easy. Champions have only a few things in common. One weapon they all possess is White Hot Concentration.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Running, Block, White

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• Unlike boxers-or any professional athlete for that matter-rowers have little motivation to do it longer than necessary. With a modest amount of self-realization, you'll know when you have acquired the nebulous gifts that rowing has to offer, whether it's courage or a strengthened soul or a powerful body. Once you have it, drop back ten yards and punt. Someone new will pick up the ball and run with it.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Running, Motivation, Powerful

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• The value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor.

  Henry George

  Entrepreneur, Possession, Values

  Henry George (1911). “The Complete Works of Henry George”

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• My mom blames California for me being a lesbian. Everything was fine until you moved out there. That's right, Mom, we have mandatory lesbianism in West Hollywood. The Gay Patrol busted me, and I was given seven business days to add a significant amount of flannel to my wardrobe.

  Coley Sohn

  Mom, Gay, California

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• The path to added muscle is consuming more calories than the amount needed to keep your current bodyweight unchanged.

  Dorian Yates

  Bodybuilding, Path, Currents

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• Keep records of your fitness progress throughout your training. Chart all of the food you eat, the exercises you complete, and even the amount of sleep you get each night. Refer back to your records to see where things went right or went wrong.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Sleep, Exercise

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• I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor.

  Conrad Veidt

  Stupid, Order, Medicine

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• If all properly economic problems were solved once for all . . . the social struggle and strife would . . . [not necessarily] be reduced in amount or intensity . . . in the absence of some moral revolution which could by no means be assumed to follow in consequence of this change itself.

  Frank Knight

  Struggle, Mean, Revolution

  Frank Hyneman Knight, Hubert Bonner (1947). “Freedom and reform: essays in economics and social philosophy”

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• There are two types of films - one made by the big-time producers, the other is low budget stuff made by some producers who make films for the heck of it, they complete their films for small amounts, sell it at low costs with almost no publicity.

  Ajay Devgan

  Two, Cost, Stuff

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