957 private quotes tagged best

“After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.” — Albert Camus

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“I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“So let's not use a stylus. We're going to use the best pointing device in the world. We're going to use a pointing device that we're all born with - born with ten of them. We're going to use our fingers. We're going to touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch, which is phenomenal. It works like magic.” — Steve Jobs

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“I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.” — Albert Einstein

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“Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.” — Aristotle

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“No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.” — John Wooden

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“I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.” — Steve Jobs

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“It is best to live however one can be.” — Sophocles

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“Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.” — Andrew Carnegie

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“The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.” — Ayn Rand

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“I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.” — Walt Whitman

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“Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.” — Jose Saramago

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“That government is best which governs least.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.” — George Eliot

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“The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.” — Franz Kafka

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“The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.” — Thomas A. Edison

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“One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.” — Josh Billings

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“Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“For Forms of Government let fools contest whatever is best administered is best.” — Alexander Pope

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“Fatigue is the best pillow.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Hunger is the best pickle.” — Benjamin Franklin

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