There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.

You must work very hard to become a natural golfer... view

By: Gary Player

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By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light... view

By: Esther Williams

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The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means... view

By: Susan Sontag

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One of the workshop participants had shown me a single 8 X 10 photograph of a power plant where he actually was the general manager of this power cooperative. It was quite magical to me... view

By: John Sexton

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I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come... view

By: Karl Jaspers

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I've never seen a schedule where you just go in two hours almost every day of the week and then all day on one day. Then you shoot it at night with an audience and you're out of there... view

By: Lee Majors

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Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection... view

By: Vernor Vinge

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I think about my work every minute of the day... view

By: Jeff Koons

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The prophets and the writers of the Psalms were clear that God was continuing to work in the universe and in all history. They declared that He had created the universe... view

By: Kenneth Scott Latourette

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Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father... view

By: Jim Jeffords

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My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out... view

By: Ronald Reagan

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Working for a federal agency was like trying to dislodge a prune skin from the roof of the mouth. More enterprise went into the job than could be justified by the results... view

By: Caskie Stinnett

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