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Letter "D" » disaster
«I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.»
Author: John D. Rockefeller
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
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Opportunity
| Keywords:
disaster
«I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.»
Author: Ansel Adams
(Photographer)
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disaster, entail, entailed, entailing, etch, etched, etching, etchings, improvement, output, photography, production, sheer, superficial, term, The Creation, watercolor
«Jesus did. I was hopping along, when suddenly he comes and cures me. One minute I'm a leper with a trade, next moment me livelihood's gone. Not so much as a by your leave. Look. I'm not saying that being a leper was a bowl of cherries. But it was a living. I mean, you try waving muscular suntanned limbs in people's faces demanding compassion. It's a bloody disaster.»
«It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one's disaster»
Author: Rebecca West
(Writer)
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Virtue
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disaster, precipitate, precipitated, precipitates, precipitating
«If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster/ And treat those two impostors just the same.»
«Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.»
«If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.»
Author: Swami Vivekananda
(Spiritual leader)
| About:
Positive thinking
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achievement, brood, brooded, broods, demise, disaster, fraught, get it, hasten, hastened, hastening, hastens, positively, richer, secure, securing, think about, with confidence
«I cannot get any sense of an enemy - only of a disaster.»
«I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.»
«It is not permitted to a man who takes up pen or chisel, to seek originality, for passion is his only business, and he cannot but mould or sing after a new fashion because no disaster is like another.»
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