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Letter "T" » The Detours
«On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family life»
Author: Eleanor Holmes Norton
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
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«So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.»
«When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.»
«. . . it's worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success. You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure. The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive. At that time, we turn around and say, yes, this is obviously where I was going all along. It's a good idea to try to enjoy the scenery on the detours, because you'll probably take a few.»
Author: Bill Watterson
(Author)
| Keywords:
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«Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.»
Author: Denis Waitley
(Author, Speaker)
| About:
Failure
| Keywords:
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«The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.»
Author: Hubert H. Humphrey
(Vice President)
| Keywords:
detour, detours, goodwill, intentions, paved, senate, senates, The Detours, the Senate
«Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to himself, all his progress should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. Alas, the artist who waits in ambush there, watching, detaining them, will find them transformed like the beautiful gold in the fairy tale which cannot remain gold because some small detail was not taken care of.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
| Keywords:
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«Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.»
Author: Zig Ziglar
(Author, Speaker)
| About:
Failure
| Keywords:
dead-end street, dead end, Dead Ends, detour, detours, The Detours
«A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Art,
Heart,
Work
| Keywords:
detours, images, opened, presence, rediscover, rediscovered, rediscovering, rediscovers, slow, The Detours, trek, treks
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