Three Things Quotes

• Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

  Confucius

  Motivational, Wisdom, Buddhist

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• Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Motivational, Success, People

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• There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

  Bill Bryson

  Age, Lightning, Rolling Along

  FaceBook post by Bill Bryson from Apr 07, 2015

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• There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life. These are wine, women and song.

  Neil Gaiman

  Song, Pain, Wine

  Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

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• Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Three, Attention, Pay

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• A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.

  William Faulkner

  Writing, Two, Imagination

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• The psychiatric interviewer is supposed to be doing three things: considering what the patient could mean by what he says; considering how he himself can best phrase what he wishes to communicate to the patient; and, at the same time, observing the general pattern of the events being communicated. In addition to that, to make notes which will be of more than evocative value, or come anywhere near being a verbatim record of what is said, in my opinion is beyond the capacity of most human beings.

  Harry Stack Sullivan

  Mean, Science, Wish

  Harry Stack Sullivan (1953). “The collected works”

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• Religion poses a danger of creating division or intolerance between groups of people. However, the gospel of Jesus lead us to three things: humble service, reconciling behavior that is neither patronizing nor self-righteous, and a love toward people who hold different beliefs than we do.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Humble, Self

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• Mans nature indicates that he was created for three things: To think, to worship and to work. But thinking is not enough. Men are made to worship also, to bow down and adore in the presence of the Mystery inexpressible.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Thinking, Three

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• In my experience, the skill of success breaks down into three things. The skill of marketing. The skill of sales. And the skill of leadership.

  Michael Ellsberg

  Skills, Marketing, Three

  Michael Ellsberg (2011). “The Education of Millionaires: Everything You Won't Learn in College About How to Be Successful”, p.117, Penguin

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• There are three things in this world that will survive a nuclear explosion: Twinkies, cockroaches and Dean Ambroses.

  Dean Ambrose

  Wwe, Cockroaches, Three

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• Rock'n'roll starts between the legs and goes through the heart, then to the head. As long as it does those three things, it's a great rock song.

  John Mellencamp

  Song, Heart, Rocks

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• Theres only three things [Giuliani] mentions in a sentence—a noun, a verb, and 9/11

  Joe Biden

  Three, Verbs, Nouns

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• It seems to me that the dedication of a library is an act of faith. To bring together the resources of the past and to house them in buildings where they will be preserved for the use of men and women in the future, a nation must believe in three things. It must believe in the past. it must believe in the future. It must, above all, believe in the capacity of its own people so to learn from the past that they can gain in judgment in creating their own future.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Believe, Past, Men

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• I'm now doing three things: concerts, conducting, and teaching, and they each support each other. I learn to see things from different perspectives and listen with different ears. The most important thing that you need to do is really listen.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Teaching, Perspective, Support

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• So we want to change the tax system. We want it to be fair, and we want to see some tax relief because people do three things when they get a little extra money in their pocket: They save it or they spend it or they invest it.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Change, People, Pockets

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• It don't care whether I'm good enough. It don't care whether I snore or not. It don't care which God I pray to. There are only three things with that kind of unconditional acceptance: Dogs, donuts, and money.

  Danny DeVito

  Dog, Acceptance, Care

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• I am now to offer some thoughts upon that sameness or familiarity which we frequently find between passages in different authors without quotation. This may be one of three things either what is called Plagiarism, or Imitation, or Coincidence.

  James Boswell

  Different, Three, May

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• My place in Scotland is in the middle of nowhere, so you've just got a keyboard, guitar, a little drum machine and you know if you can work stuff out like that, if you can hammer out songs that sound good just with those three things and a voice, you're on your way.

  Jay Kay

  Song, Guitar, Scotland

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• QUOTES BOUQUET: Three Things You Should Never Sacrifice: Family, Heart And Dignity

  Adnan

  Heart, Sacrifice, Three

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• Normally I can balance two or three things. The problem is when you're out of work and don't have anything to balance. I think people assume you're always busy. You go through dry spells.

  Marvin Hamlisch

  Thinking, Two, People

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• Being from New York, there's three things you know about Hollywood. You know about the Hollywood sign, Sunset Strip and Hollywood Boulevard with the stars.

  Puff Daddy

  New York, Stars, Sunset

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• There are three things that are important for a film. Number one is story, number two is story, number three is story. Good actors can save a bad script and make it bearable, but good actors can't make a bad script good - they can just make it bearable.

  Mark Strickson

  Two, Numbers, Important

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• A trilogy is a pretty abstract notion. You can apply it to almost any three things.

  Jonathan Demme

  Three, Abstract, Trilogies

  "Neil Young drives a 1956 Crown Vic back in time in Jonathan Demme’s ‘Neil Young: Journeys’" by Chris Kensler, www.foxnews.com. June 18, 2012.

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• No, and in fact I get a bit frustrated, because I'm actually quite good at one-liners, and I've had hundreds of them over the years, and they sink without trace, and I get very frustrated. Every party conference I really work on the speeches, and I always have two or three things I'm quite proud of, and no one ever remembers them.

  Vince Cable

  Party, Years, Two

  "Vince Cable: 'What we're managing is quite a difficult situation'" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. August 9, 2010.

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