Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.
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MOTHER TERESA I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm reall... J. D. SOUTHER My goal has always been to be like a female George Burns. Having had the opportunity to work with hi... FLORENCE HENDERSON I am ordinary person with extraordinary curiosity. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I trul... ADAM BRODY You want to do good things, and once you've done a couple of good things in a row, you think ... JERRY SEINFELD The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE ...You can do something extraordinary, and something that a lot of people can't do. And if you have ... MORGAN MATSON I'm really interested in social justice, and if an artist has a certain power of being heard and... SHIRIN NESHAT I spend a lot of time at my son's school and I really wanted to do a movie that the kids could s... VIRGINIA MADSEN And you won't get him to do it. He is very respectful and has a lot of affinity; he loved his time t... TODD TURNER I don't know what I'm qualified to do, film-wise... So it's really down to a director or... LARRY MULLEN, JR. I do love video games. But after a while, you feel like you really need to get up and do something. PATRICK CHAN She really needed to do that and be part of that as a family. I think that really helped a lot, but ... LINDA BURDETTE I'm an old fashioned theater major at heart. I love to do a show, do something with friends; I... TOM LENK I think the best way to find out about something is to try to do it to the max. A lot of people take... BRUCE DICKINSON Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE I have a brother who's a mechanical engineer. I'll have to give him a challenge early on after this,... GLENN WHITE If you want to do something, just do it. No one is going to do it for you. JAIME PRESSLY He bowed is head into my throat, groaning softly. "I loved you long before you loved me. It's the on... BECCA FITZPATRICK [Maybe she simply cared in a self-protective way.] Doing something on impulse, ... well, it can work... KATE ADIE
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For Deity offended! ROBERT BURNS I have a big personality, and I think big personality plus blond hair makes me come across as glib. ... BROOKE BURNS Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in the mornin'... IRVING BURNS Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious,
O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. ROBERT BURNS I have regular peels and Botox. It's something I'll always do. People redecorate their homes... PETE BURNS His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar. ROBERT BURNS Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing. ROBERT BURNS Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting h... GEORGE BURNS Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be for... ROBERT BURNS The landlord's laugh was ready chorus. ROBERT BURNS O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a b... ROBERT BURNS Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. GEORGE BURNS The problem with drinking and driving is that trees defend themselves very well. GEORGE BURNS Be quick to learn and wise to know. GEORGE BURNS Life's but a day at most. GEORGE BURNS Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life. GEORGE BURNS Let us do or die. ROBERT BURNS I look better, feel better, make love better and I'll tell you something else....I never lied better... GEORGE BURNS Prudent, cautious self-control, is wisdom's root. ROBERT BURNS It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere. GEORGE BURNS You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old. GEORGE BURNS How can I die? I'm booked. GEORGE BURNS If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age. GEORGE BURNS By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it. GEORGE BURNS You know you're getting old when you stop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do while yo... GEORGE BURNS Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame. ROBERT BURNS Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist. GEORGE BURNS Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting ha... GEORGE BURNS Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto! ROBERT BURNS When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare. ROBERT BURNS Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we ha... ROBERT BURNS I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate. GEORGE BURNS Suspense is worst than disappointment. ROBERT BURNS A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who w... H.S.M. BURNS The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'men Gang aft agley. ROBERT BURNS Their sighing , canting , grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces. ROBERT BURNS I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life. GEORGE BURNS Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ROBERT BURNS If it's a good script I'll do it. And if it's a bad script, and they pay me enough, I'll do it. GEORGE BURNS The Thames is liquid history. JOHN BURNS I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discr... ROBERT BURNS How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful. ROBERT BURNS The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God. ROBERT BURNS I pick my favorite quotation and store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid ... ROBERT BURNS There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing. ROBERT BURNS Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised th... ROBERT BURNS Ae fond kiss, and then we sever! A farewell, and then forever! Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll ... ROBERT BURNS The great Creator to revere Must sure become the creature; But still the preaching cant forbea... ROBERT BURNS His locked, lettered, braw brass collar,
Shewed him the gentleman and scholar. ROBERT BURNS Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new. ROBERT BURNS The daisy's for simplicity and unaffected air. ROBERT BURNS Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate,
That fate is thine--no distant date;
Stern Ruin's plou... ROBERT BURNS Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! ROBERT BURNS It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty.
[Fr., Contre les rebelles c'est cru... ROBERT BURNS Ilk cowslip cup shall kep a tear. ROBERT BURNS And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale. ROBERT BURNS Contented wi' little, and cantie wi' mair. ROBERT BURNS I'll be merry and free,
I'll be sad for nae-body;
If nae-body cares for me,
I'll care fo... ROBERT BURNS To liken them to your auld-warld squad,
I must needs say comparisons are odd. ROBERT BURNS Without discipline the Army would just be a bunch of guys wearing the same color clothing. FRANK BURNS I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty. GEORGE BURNS Sex can be fun after eighty, after ninety, and after lunch! GEORGE BURNS Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining ... KEN BURNS All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn,
Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn. ROBERT BURNS And there begins a lang digression
About the lords o' the creation. ROBERT BURNS O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I. ROBERT BURNS The wide world is all before us--
But a world without a friend. ROBERT BURNS Affliction's sons are brothers in distress;
A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! ROBERT BURNS In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep. ROBERT BURNS Then horn for horn they stretch and strive;
Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive. ROBERT BURNS I waive the quantum o' the sin,
The hazard of concealing:
But, och! it hardens a' within,
... ROBERT BURNS I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, am... ROBERT BURNS Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale.
from the poem
The Cotter’s Saturday Ni... ROBERT BURNS Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad frae monie a blu... ROBERT BURNS What's a' your jargon o' your schools,
Your Latin names for horns and stools;
If honest nature... ROBERT BURNS G-- knows I'm no the thing I should be,
Nor am I even the thing I could be,
But twenty times I... ROBERT BURNS Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes!
My peace with these, my love with those.
The burstin... ROBERT BURNS Hear, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots,
Frae Maidenkirk to Johnie Groat's;-
If there's a hole ... ROBERT BURNS O Scotia! my dear, my native soil!
For whom my warmest wish to heaven is sent;
Long may thy h... ROBERT BURNS But pleasures are like poppies spread;
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed.
Or like the sn... ROBERT BURNS Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn! ROBERT BURNS The mother may forget the child
That smiles sae sweetly on her knee;
But I'll remember thee, G... ROBERT BURNS O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad frae monie a blund... ROBERT BURNS My dear, my native soil!
For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent,
Long may thy hardy sons o... ROBERT BURNS Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of wo. ROBERT BURNS Some wee short hour ayont the twal. ROBERT BURNS The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn,
And violets bathe in the wet o' the morn. ROBERT BURNS Now blooms the lily by the bank,
The primrose down the brae;
The hawthorn's budding in the gle... ROBERT BURNS Mourn, little harebells, o'er the lea;
Ye stately foxgloves fair to see!
Ye woodbines, hanging... ROBERT BURNS The rank is but the guinea's stamp,
The man's the gowd for a' that. ROBERT BURNS A prince can mak a belted knight,
A marquis, duke, and a' that;
But an honest man's aboon his ... ROBERT BURNS A man's a man for a' that! ROBERT BURNS