Rough Quotes - Page 4

As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center.

A banjo will get you through times of no money, but money won't get you through times of no banjo

Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.

A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her 'duties', forbid it. Her 'domestic duties', high-sounding words, which, for the most part, are but bad habits (which she has not the courage to enfranchise herself from, the strength to break through), forbid it.

Sometimes one touches on a very painful spot where one is almost too shy to look into it, but somehow one still has to go through it. And by going into it, one finally achieves a real command of oneself. One gains a thorough knowledge of oneself for the first time.

I think when one has talent one finally breaks through; so don't pass up any opportunity to do some work.

A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising.

I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.

I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What's to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that.

Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout.

The activities you are most afraid of are the activities that can cause a breakthrough in your success. Step into them.

A thorough knowledge of the elements takes us more than half the road to mastership

I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.

You must never tell a thing. You must illustrate it. We learn through the eye and not the noggin.

There is no breakthrough without a breakdown.

If you don't break a hole through the brick wall, don't just start digging a new hole. Keep going until you break through that wall.

I am rough around the edges, and I am not a polished girl.

Success doesn’t necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won’t win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.

Breakthrough Advertising is not about building better mousetraps. It is, however, about building larger mice - and then building a terrifying fear of them in your customers.

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.

Darkness, whether in mood or in night, is natural. So if we flow with the black bile of melancholia and endure the terrible darkness of depression, eventually we will break through into the light of joy. This is the Tao (the Way) of darkness or depression--this is the Mystery of its evolution.

When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges.

A crafty enemy will set a weak ambush you are meant to break through. Confident because you have dealt with the threat, your guard relaxed, you walk into the second, stronger ambush.

The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft.

You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.