An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
William Dean Howells
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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
RED AUERBACH I haven't done anything--yet.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS She liked the words; they satisfied her famine for phrases.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS I wish you to believe whatever you think is true, at any and every cost.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS I am yours, for time and eternity--time and eternity.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS The worth of a person’s quote is in his or her heart where it takes the birth and the value of the...
ANUJ SOMANY It's astonishing how well the worse reason looks when you try to make it appear the better.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
MAE WEST An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment
ELBERT HUBBARD An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance. - Nolan's / Peter's Placebo.
UNKNOWN SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in th...
AMBROSE BIERCE We promise a whole day's worth of great music and a great opportunity to learn about Florida's folk ...
CAROL CORTRIGHT Believe me, this country [Florida] has been greatly overrated. One acre of our fine Tennessee land i...
RACHEL DONELSON JACKSON A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty
Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
JOSEPH ADDISON A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage
JOSEPH ADDISON If I got a penny for every time I thought of your well being, I'd be the youngest billionaire.
RUPESH PATEL Here’s to all the places we went. And all the places we’ll go. And here’s me, whispering again...
JOHN GREEN I'm not interested in dating a girl I'm not gonna marry
JOHN GREEN The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend ob...
JOHN GREEN He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledg...
DAVID AMRAM Meat is an inefficient way to eat. An acre of land can yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but that sam...
ALEXANDRA PAUL All promise outruns performance.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON With a 20-pound (per acre) seeding rate, that's around $60 an acre for the technology for the life o...
MARK MCCASLIN She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Performance is better than promise. Exuberant assurances are cheap.
JOSEPH PULITZER The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The power of heart is much stronger than the power of mind to empower our life.
ANUJ SOMANY He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
SAMUEL JOHNSON This is the Modern Man, who cannot save himself but wants to save the world.
He is the Wise who...
CRISTIANE SERRUYA We'll have an acre of land where we can have a vintage market.
ANN MOORE The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For our purposes, we define (William James) theory of pragmatism to mean that instead of just talkin...
ANDY STOLL Be grateful for every moment and every breath.
TERESA COLLINS Your Potential Shows The World There's Something Worth Investing In, But Performance & Results Deter...
GEORGE M. ETHERIDGE An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS I know, indeed, of nothing more subtle satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good wil...
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know he sees it.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Out of the fragrant heart of bloom,
The bobolinks are singing;
Out of the fragrant heart of bl...
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent...
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a ...
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Is it the shrewd October wind
Brings the tears into her eyes?
Does it blow so strong that she ...
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690 If I lay waste and wither up wit...
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS The little wind that hardly shook
The silver of the sleeping brook
Blew the gold hair about he...
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS And the names he loved to hearHave been carved for many a yearOn the tomb.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Tomorrow I shall be sixty-nine, but I do not seem to care. I did not start the affair, and I have no...
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Her mouth is a honey-blossom,No doubt, as the poet sings;But within her lips, the petals,Lurks a cru...
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Some people stay longer in an hour than others do in a month
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Now I know that so long as we have social inequality we shall have snobs; we shall have men who bull...
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Yep, that's me. I know. I know. You're humbled I'm here, feel like throwing rose petals at my feet, ...
GENA SHOWALTER They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.
WILLIAM GOLDING There's a wealth of information on James Dean, and everybody has an opinion on him. James Dean m...
DANE DEHAAN Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU Each day is new, but our lives shall be old in each new day if we fail to understand why each day is...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH One human life is worth more than all the treasures of the earth.
SETH ADAM SMITH Now that I am alone, I don't have to hide it; I don't have to hide anything any longer. I can let my...
ROALD DAHL And then it was the kind of dark your eyes never adjust to.
JOHN GREEN but there was no denying her smile. That smile could end wars and cure cancer.
JOHN GREEN El pasado es una historia lógica. Es el sentido de lo que sucedió. Pero como el futuro todavía no...
JOHN GREEN Kau bisa melihat masa depan kalau kau punya pemahaman dasar tentang bagaimana orang akan bersikap
JOHN GREEN Masa depan terbentang di hadapannya, tak terhindarkan namun tak kasat mata
JOHN GREEN And even though he felt pitiful and ridiculous, he didn't want it to end, because he knew the absenc...
JOHN GREEN Dumpers may not always be the heartbreakers, and the Dumpees may not always be the heartbroken. But ...
JOHN GREEN Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could sta...
JOHN GREEN En inglés, Borogove’” I said. “But what if I don’t finish this painting in
time?” TERRY BISSON There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Together with Promise Technology controllers, WD delivers high performance, reliable SATA-based ente...
HUBBERT SMITH They want to pay us agricultural value. A developer said it should be worth $25,000 per acre above t...
GARY WEST Through art we can see the reflection of the inner world of an artist.
DEBASISH MRIDHA After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?
DEJAN STOJANOVIC It's absolutely worth it. There's a lot of promise for this vaccine, not just because of our study, ...
DOROTHY K. HATSUKAMI I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY The school year progressed slowly. I felt as if I had been in the sixth grade for years, yet it was ...
LUCY GREALY The value of a consultant;An outsider can see what an insider cannot see or has decided to ignore.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand...
GARY F EVANS... Walking the rugged trail of the unknown destiny can be filled with walls crashing and cracks on the ...
GARY F EVANS... It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w...
GARY F EVANS... To have a pet in the family is to invite good health into your lives.It brings happiness to all and ...
GARY F EVANS... I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape an...
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DEAN ORNISH When we understand the connection between how we live and how long we live, it's easier to make ...
DEAN ORNISH Second of all, I don't think Wall Street is doing what it's supposed to be doing, even after...
HOWARD DEAN I remember, as a kid, thinking more about, you know, watching the world go by and being amazed by ho...
DEAN KAMEN Curious patients are more receptive to new ideas, and those who engage their health practitioners in...
DEAN ORNISH Think about it: Heart disease and diabetes, which account for more deaths in the U.S. and worldwide ...
DEAN ORNISH Sporting competitions seem to be what we obsess over, frankly. So if we can put engineering, science...
DEAN KAMEN I've never had a business plan. Every project we've ever done was the intersection of somebo...
DEAN KAMEN There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real substance, value, and co...
DEAN KAMEN I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answer...
DEAN KAMEN Thinking is my hobby. But sometimes you get to where you're stuck and you can't figure it ou...
DEAN KAMEN We all know about certain problems we wish we didn't have.
DEAN KAMEN Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and fin...
DEAN KAMEN I would argue that education, actual learning - it is hard work. It's very personal. Your parent...
DEAN KAMEN Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what tech...
DEAN KAMEN If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.
DEAN KAMEN I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of...
DEAN KAMEN An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way...
DEAN KAMEN Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision,...
DEAN KAMEN I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life...
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