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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

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Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category: Business

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. Even from a very early age I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.
  • 2. I've always been intrigued by color and by interesting hair. I was one of those weird little girls doing my own hair at the age of 9. I was like getting weird gels and new brushes and cornrow holders. I would tweak and perm at the age of 13.
  • 3. What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. It was a great mantel to be able to take on really an amazing legacy. And you know to finally see it because I just saw the final product yesterday as well is really amazing to be part of something like this.
  • 2. Let me tell you Barack Obama is the most down dude in the world but he's so smart so articulate such an amazing speaker such a passionate man. He's humble.
  • 3. I also met early on Ella Fitzgerald. Her songbooks are some of the most amazing bodies of work.

3 Anger

  • 1. I know to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
  • 2. Men are fair and they have learned not to personalize anger – they can disagree with you and argue to the bone but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.
  • 3. Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. The 150th anniversary of Penn State will highlight what is important and good about this distinguished institution and the fine people and research that it produces.
  • 2. You marry somebody you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.
  • 3. I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out she'll kill me.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I don't divide architecture landscape and gardening to me they are one.
  • 2. Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.
  • 3. Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking but all in harmony together.
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