Thousand Quotes

• If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

  Winston Churchill

  Respect, Not Giving Up, Law

  "Churchill By Himself".

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  God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

  John Muir

  Nature, Sea, Tree

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.373, The Mountaineers Books

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• Ten thousand hours is equivalent to roughly three hours a day, or 20 hours a week, of practice over 10 years... No one has yet found a case in which true world-class expertise was accomplished in less time. It seems that it takes the brain this long to assimilate all that it needs to know to achieve true mastery.

  Daniel Levitin

  Years, Practice, Class

  "Malcolm Gladwell on Joy, Gates and the Beatles and on stage" by Jack Schofield, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2008.

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• A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of regret.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Patience, Regret, Anger

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• There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

  Washington Irving

  Love, Marriage, Sympathy

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• When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your Self is a sun with a thousand rays.

  Pablo Picasso

  Yoga, Self, Rays

  Wilhelm Boeck, Jaime Sabartés, Pablo Picasso (1961). “Picasso”, New York : H.N. Abrams

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• Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Education, Work

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• A journey to Thousand miles begins with one step

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging

  John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• We have thousands of opportunities every day to be grateful: for having good weather, to have slept well last night, to be able to get up, to be healthy, to have enough to eat. ... There's opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful; that's what life is.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Life, Positive, Gratitude

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• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Women, Accusing Me, Compass

  Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.230, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.

  Wernher von Braun

  Failure, Errors, Rockets

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• Marriage can wait, education cannot.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Inspirational, Marriage, School

  Twitter post from Jan 11, 2015

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• A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Chance, Splendid, Educated And Uneducated

  Twitter post from Jun 28, 2015

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• A good sketch is better than a long speech.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Life, Art, Architecture

  "L'Arche de Noé" by Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, (p. 48), 1968.

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• A picture is worth a thousand texts.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Melissa de la Cruz (2009). “Girl Stays in the Picture”, p.344, Simon and Schuster

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• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

  Alton Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• One picture is worth a thousand words

  Albert Einstein

  Inspiration, Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

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• Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several dozen that have a unique combination of talents that improve our health.

  Paul Stamets

  Nature, Health, Unique

  Interview with Patricia Fitzgerald, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 2, 2011.

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• Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

  Laozi

  Uplifting, Journey, Difficult And Easy

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• It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Struggle, Buddhism

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• According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

  John F. Kennedy

  Travel, New Beginnings, Journey

  Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Address to the Nation, delivered 26 July 1963

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• I'm just like everybody else. I have two arms, two legs and four-thousand hits.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Two, Legs

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• It's fantastic because I've been living thousands of lives, not only my life.

  Claudia Cardinale

  Life, Actresses, Fantastic

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2003.

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• The coward dies a thousand deaths, the valiant, only once!

  William Shakespeare

  Courage, Coward, Arms

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