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" Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns. "

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" Alas, those six unfortunate souls who have made their way through my books know that every one of them is about Emerson and Thoreau and their dark counters, Melville and Emily Dickinson. Try as I might, I can't get their inspirations, their challenges and sentences and wisdom and questions out of my head. "

" Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise. "

" Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim. "

John D. Rockefeller

" Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself. "

" All wisdom does not reside in Delhi. "

" Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself. "

" Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom. "

" If you don't have heroes in the beginning, you don't grow. "

" If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. "

" You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible. "

" The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure. "

" Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules. "

" Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame. "

Abbott L. Lowell

" Look around for a place to sow a few seeds. "

" Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured. "

Michael D. Higgins

" Suffering is one of life's great teachers. "

Bryant H. McGill

" Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground. "

" Leave no stone unturned. "

" How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity. "

Robert Gottlieb

" You know, many people have said that I'm on the edge and I'm maverick for some of the big operations that I've done. I'm not at all. I pray; I ask God to give me wisdom, 'Should I do it?', guidance in terms of how to do it, who to consult with. All those kind of things are incredibly important. "

" It isn't what you do, but how you do it. "

" Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise. "

" Start wide, expand further, and never look back. "

Arnold Schwarzenegger

" We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice. "

" Not a single illegal immigrant should or need enter the United States, not one. Contrary to the common wisdom, the borders are easy to seal, and controlling entry is hardly totalitarian. "

" Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life. "

" In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and what's behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand. "

" We need to hear stories from older women. There's a wealth of wisdom and real resilience there, but they're silenced. "

" Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next. "

" I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright. "