I wasn't the brightest kid, not by a long shot. I was interested in football, in girls, in getting my work done with the least amount of effort.
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THOMAS J. POWELL Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. ...
THOMAS J. WATSON I have learned that a smile is a better persuader than a fist, in the long run.
THOMAS J. POWELL Each person creates the life they live by choosing the words they speak.
THOMAS J. POWELL These are extremely trying times for our country. The recovery is going to be led by us via our priv...
THOMAS J. POWELL To be a beautiful person, fill your life with other beautiful people, places and things.
THOMAS J. POWELL Although positive thoughts and affirmations create results, none of them matter without what matters...
THOMAS J. POWELL This recession should have been a major wake-up call for all businesses, but those institutions deem...
THOMAS J. POWELL The only thing I know for sure about every living thing is one day they will die , risk everything a...
THOMAS J BULGER Many highly succsessful people have survived significant downgrading by authority figures.
THOMAS J STANLEY You can look anyone in the eye when you can face yourself in the mirror.
THOMAS J. POWELL Education does not end at any point in our lives; it is an ongoing journey to be carried with us eve...
THOMAS J. POWELL The Capital river is frozen, but we can unthaw it. Bring private capital together with private enter...
THOMAS J. POWELL Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
THOMAS J. PETERS In politics and in his personal life, Thomas Jefferson was a complicated man, but in one thing he wa...
THOMAS J. CRAUGHWELL A person with normal eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of 'Impressionism' unles...
JOHN SINGER SARGENT I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life. Portraiture may be all...
JOHN SINGER SARGENT The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressi...
JOHN SINGER SARGENT You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.
JOHN SINGER SARGENT I do not judge, I only chronicle.
JOHN SINGER SARGENT Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
JOHN SINGER SARGENT To work is to pray.
JOHN SINGER SARGENT I have now got a bombproof shelter [the Continent] into which I retire when I sniff the coming portr...
JOHN SINGER SARGENT Mine is the horny hand of toil.
JOHN SINGER SARGENT I don't dig beneath the surface for things that don't appear before my own eyes.
JOHN SINGER SARGENT A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.
JOHN SINGER SARGENT 'Impressionism' was the name given to a certain form of observation when Monet, not content ...
JOHN SINGER SARGENT You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.
JOHN SINGER SARGENT Color is an inborn gift, but appreciation of value is merely training of the eye, which everyone oug...
JOHN SINGER SARGENT It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry.
JOHN SINGER SARGENT Sin hath the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages
THOMAS J. WATSON, SR. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
THOMAS J. WATSON SR.