Quotes of: Coming-of-age Keyword

You want something real bad? Go after it with ferocity like if your life depended on it and never ever surrender. Only a question of time.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

When someone talks about their problems, it doesn't just mean they're complaining, it means they trust you enough to tell you.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

When you stop grabbing for things, sometimes the world just hands them to you, instead. Focusing on others is true success.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

Find a quiet place, and just read. If you’re reading an ebook, clear away everything else but your ebook reader. Then you settle into the reading, and enjoy it. Bask in the luxury of reading without distractions.

Focus: A Simplicity Manifesto in the Age of Distraction

The first prerequisite for fine literature is that the writer must see the language not as a transparent medium for self-expression or the representation of reality, but as a medium one must struggle with to make it do one's bidding.

The Fall of Language in the Age of English

One day, we will live in a world without salads. It is a dream I have.

Gray Hair, Black Belt: Earning a Black Belt After Age 50

They soon stopped being ten years old. But whatever age they were seemed to be exactly the right age for having fun.

Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill

One journalist complemented another that his article on a dispute, "had made both sides see themselves as they are.

The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

She was never satisfied with anything less than perfection, but she was no grind. She was too interested in people.

The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.

The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

According to his habit, Theodore Roosevelt sought to harness anxiety through action.

The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

It’s far too rarely stated that the technology industry is not in the business of making people productive. It is only in the business of selling more technology.

Bit Literacy: Productivity in the Age of Information and E-mail Overload

We say, 'You may drink at the age of 21 but not at the age of 20.' Why? Because humans like to create terribly neat categories out of nature because it allows us a nice, tight social organization. The truth is, nature doesn't care that we like nice, ...

Alice Dreger

Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was t...

Annie Lennox

Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact - men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.

Billy Graham

Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through life. There's a reason for the saying, 'If you have your health, you have everything,' and it's true. Old age, disease - these are the great equalizers.

Candace Bushnell

I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around...

Cameron Diaz

I want to play women my own age, rather than artificially 'de-age' myself so that I can play women who are younger or much younger than I am. I want to grow into those kind of more mature parts, not try and keep them at bay for as long as I possibly ...

Cherie Lunghi

What's interesting about the shift from an industrial age to a technological age is that we keep inventing new media: movies, records, radio, television, the Internet, and now ebooks - and one of the things that's most interesting about the invention...

David Gerrold

What do we have in life, really? If we're lucky we get to a certain age, and we have each other. We have the food we like. We have our crazy little rituals. And we have each other.

David O. Russell

For some reason I can't explain, artist and musicians tend to look younger than our age. Being in music, you need this youthful sense of discovery and wonder for what you're doing and keep your imagination open. That's a youthful way of looking at li...

Joshua Bell