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The photos that interest me most, I can't say why I took them. I think my gift is that I still work with a certain amount of unconsciousness.

People choose the paths that grant them the greatest rewards for the least amount of effort.

Nursing is great for so many reasons, but there is one reason that means more than any poll results, amount of money, or job security: Nurses make a difference.

Again two manufacturers may employ the same amount of fixed, and the same amount of circulating capital; but the durability of their fixed capitals may be very unequal.

The most beautiful motion is that which accomplishes the greatest results with the least amount of effort.

I'm not against people having new cars. I'm against them having you. We spend a tremendous amount impressing somebody at the stoplight who we'll never meet. It makes you broke and keeps you broke.

Researchers who studied a thousand Dutch vacationers concluded that by far the greatest amount of happiness extracted from the vacation is derived from the anticipation period.

For me personally it is because I get an awful amount of success and I don't think I deserve it and then I want to sabotage it.

Woodstock is well known because this country is so hyped on amount. It was big. Half a million people doesn't necessarily mean something is good. It just means it's big.

The only difference between black coal and a precious diamond is the amount of pressure it endured.

maybe a certain amount of narcissism is as essential to an actress as muscles are to a football lineman.

Here in the United States, we have between 250 and 300 years of a coal supply. That is more than the amount of recoverable oil contained in the entire world.

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

No amount of time in front of the mirror will make you as attractive as having the Holy Ghost with you.

There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.

It's fun to play characters in songs. I can just cheat a little bit... be this person for just a small amount of time and just help vent that idea.

Sometimes you can make a substantial amount of money and automatically think that you've made it, that you did everything you wanted to do. Some people just stop.

At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices.

The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks.

It takes a tremendous amount of passion to do innovative things every day.

The kind of problem that literature raises is not the kind that you ever 'solve'. Whether my answers are any good or not, they represent a fair amount of thinking about the questions.

I like to pretend that each book is my first one and last one, because it takes a tremendous amount of energy to do a book.

The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

Children possess a remarkable amount of passion. They throw themselves completely, heart and soul, into everything.

It’s a waste of time to be bummed on something, considering the amount of time that we have in this world.

The amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming.

The discoveries that one can make with the microscope amount to very little, for one sees with the mind's eye and without the microscope the real existence of all these little beings.

There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money.

The Band-Aid solution is actually the best kind of solution because it involves solving a problem with the minimum amount of effort and time and cost.

Rich isn't an amount of money, it's a mindset about how you live. If you believe you can win, you can.

No amount of study of present forms [of life] would permit us to infer [the existence of] dinosaurs

The amount of time that a young girl spends wearing pink will be inversely proportional to her future income.

The nation needs to return to the colonial way of life, when a wife was judged by the amount of wood she could split.

I know what it's like to be told by your teacher that you'll never amount to anything.

In any case it is not normal to put into the satisfaction of mere curiosity the amount of time and effort that scientists put into their work.

Granola didn't sell very well when it was good for you. Now it has caramel, chocolate, marshmallow, saturated fat and sweeteners with a small amount of oats and grains. Sales picked up.

Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short story writer learns to include only the most essential information.

The best results are achieved by using the right amount of effort in the right place at the right time. And this right amount is usually less than we think we need.

The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.

No amount of money could make me play for Liverpool, that isn't disrespect to Liverpool or their fans, it's respect for Everton

I would never say one was more important or more gratifying than the next because there's a tremendous amount of work, as you know, that goes into winning a cup.

Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair. If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.

You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.

If I have a daughter and she plays tennis, and I have a son who plays tennis, I wouldn't say that my son deserves more money because he's a man. I would say they deserve the same amount of money.

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.

The total amount paid out in dividends is roughly equal to the amount lost in trading and investment advice, so net dividends to shareholders are zero. This is a very peculiar way to run a republic.

The big problem in America is that everyone is spending 2-3 hours a day watching TV. If you spend that same amount of time reading, you'll be in the top 1% of whatever your field is.

People go, 'Hey, did you do anything special for the Super Bowl?' Well no, I like to think I do the same amount of work every week getting ready for a game.

For me there has never been an amount of money that makes it worth doing something that is not fun.

The degree to which you will awaken is in direct proportion to the amount of truth you are willing to accept about yourself.