Combination Quotes

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Napoleon Hill

Inspirational, Positive, Success

Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Eark Nightingale, Claude M. Bristol, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02”, p.6, Lulu.com

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A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Nelson Mandela

Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.73, Pan Macmillan

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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Anais Nin

Life, Change, Failure

"The Mirror and the Garden : Realism and Reality in the Writings of Anais Nin" by Evelyn J. Hinz, (p. 40), 1971.

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So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

Diana Krall

Art, Imagination, Creeps

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I've been around horses, but I certainly wouldn't call myself a horseman by any means. It's a combination of being very aware of them, and not trusting them.

Chris Cooper

Horse, Mean, Not Trusting

"Seabiscuit Interviews: Chris Cooper". Interview with Staci Layne Wilson, www.horse-races.net. July 15, 2003.

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Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end.

Graeme Le Saux

Drawing, People, Natural

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Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.

Eamon de Valera

War, Danger, Cork

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I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.

Patricia Velasquez

Dancer, Acting, Used

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Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits.

J. Philippe Rushton

Race, Physiological, Variety

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Having secured my Indian actors, I started for Baltimore, where I organized my combination, and which was the largest troupe I had yet had on the road.

Buffalo Bill

Actors, Baltimore, Troupe

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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.

Anais Nin

Passion, Different Experiences, Becoming

"The Mirror and the Garden : Realism and Reality in the Writings of Anais Nin" byEvelyn J. Hinz, (p. 40), 1971.

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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Norman Schwarzkopf

Leadership, Business, Character

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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.

Walter Scott

Happiness, Circumstances, Fortuitous

sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) (1862). “The Waverley novels. 25 vols.”, p.30

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A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.

Nelson Mandela

Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

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The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.

Mark Twain

Silence, Progressive, Achieve

Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain in Eruption (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.154, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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Muhammad Ali could take a very good punch. He was slick, he could move, he could hit, make you miss, good hand speed and combinations and one of the greatest fighters of all time in my opinion.

Larry Holmes

Moving, Hands, Missing

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Dreams and dedication are a powerful combination.

William F. Longgood

Dream, Powerful, Dedication

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I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to constantly paint when singing, melting all the colors, expressing reds and blacks that had to be less primary but bursting with subtly colored combinations.

Placido Domingo

Color, Voice, Singing

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You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses.

Evan Parker

Philosophy, Weakness, Ads

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Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided.

Leo Ornstein

Thinking, Together, Lines

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Mike Tyson would have been a good sparring partner for me and Muhammad Ali because Tyson was a fast fighter and he could punch and throw good combinations.

Larry Holmes

Sparring Partner, Fighter, Muhammad

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The potential elite runner must realize that hard means hard, easy means easy and they must patiently seek out what combinations work for them. They have to learn to be persistent and patient with their training and racing.

Frank Shorter

Sports, Perseverance, Mean

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The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.

Thomas Malthus

Rich, Economy, Poor

Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.55, Penguin UK

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Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers.

Josiah Warren

Mistake, Firsts, Committed

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Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

Milton Friedman

Perfectly Good, Government, Ink And Paper

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