Remembered Quotes - Page 40

• If you don't make yourself irreplaceable, somebody will replace you. Being different is being remembered. Being the same is being forgotten.

  Holly Smale

  Being Different, Forgotten, Irreplaceable

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• If I could do anything in my life and be remembered for anything, I would like to be remembered for helping the world see the value of physical engagement with ideas.

  Margaret Wertheim

  Ideas, Engagement, World

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• I'm making entertainment, but I'm making art. This is my art. Hopefully, it's profitable, hopefully it makes money, but at the end of the day I want it to be remembered for its artistic value as well as its entertainment value.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Art, The End Of The Day, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'd like to be remembered as someone who got others to recognize the potential that was within them.

  Benjamin Carson

  "Dr. Ben Carson ‘Gifted Hands’ Interview with Kam Williams". newsblaze.com. February 6, 2009.

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• I'd like to be remembered as the sower of seeds. That's the greatest parable in the bible as far as I'm concerned. Some seeds fall in the pathway, get stomped on and don't grow. Some fall on the stones and don't even sprout, but others fall on the ground and multiply a thousand fold.

  Pete Seeger

  Fall, Stones, Pathways

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• You have an advantage if you win. I always think it's best to be remembered as a winner rather than as the runner-up. It's definitely more fun getting the gold than it is the silver.

  Simon Cowell

  Fun, Winning, Thinking

  Interview with Jerry Nunn, chicago.gopride.com. December 19, 2013.

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• I remembered that throughout my growing up and education and pursuing my dreams and desires, going into acting, and, of course, getting through Yale University and on and on and on, that being average, being mediocre was not an option that you should be proud of.

  Angela Bassett

  Dream, Growing Up, Yale

  Source: www.hollywood.com

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• So to make movies, if you're first goal is to make money, well you can! Make a tent-pole movie that China wants. But that's not the kind of thing that's really going to get your remembered. You're not going to change anything with that. You might become rich from it!

  John Waters

  Goal, Might, Tents

  Source: www.thehippocollective.com

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• I want to be remembered as a great friend, an outstanding father, an amazing husband, and a good soul who always strived to serve God and man. And during that time of service on earth, I would like people to think, "He brought joy, love, opportunity, and fulfillment to millions of people."

  Tony Robbins

  Husband, Father, Opportunity

  Interview with Dr. Joe Blaes, www.dentaleconomics.com. February 1, 2000.

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• Michael Jackson doesn't really belong on this planet. He's the most important figure in the history of music. He'll be remembered far longer than George Bush will. 200 years from now, people will be talking about Michael Jackson, and no one's going to mention George Bush.

  Brett Ratner

  Talking, Years, People

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• Part of why I have started writing about love is feeling that our culture is forgetting what Martin Luther King taught. We name more and more streets and schools after him but that's almost irrelevant, because what is to be remembered is that strength to love.

  Bell Hooks

  Kings, Writing, School

  "Building a Community of Love". Interview with Thich Nhat Hanh, plumvillage.org. January 1, 2000.

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• Poor quality is remembered long after low prices are forgotten.

  Charles Rolls

  Poor Quality, Long, Forgotten

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• I'm mad at Hank Aaron for deciding to play one more season. I threw him his last home run and thought I'd be remembered forever. Now, I'll have to throw him another.

  Bill Lee

  Running, Home, Play

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• I want to be remembered much more by a total vision than a few perfect single pictures.

  Ernst Haas

  Perfect, Vision, Want

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• When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.

  John Locke

  Degrees, Doe, Should

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• Bliss in possession will not last; Remembered joys are never past.

  James Montgomery

  Past, Joy, Lasts

  James Montgomery (1881). “The poetical works of James Montgomery, with notes, etc”

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• We just want to be remembered before something is set in stone.

  Bill Dana

  Want, Stones

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• In these times of stress, snark, division and despair, I still suspect that two of the most important features we possess are imagination and a capacity for goodness. Those are qualities for which we will be remembered most fondly.

  Geoffrey S. Fletcher

  Stress, Two, Imagination

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.

  George P. Baker

  Reading, Play, Action

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• There's no such thing as good ideas and bad ideas. There are only your own ideas and other people's. If you want someone to like your idea, tell him he said it first last week and you just remembered it.

  Scott Adams

  Ideas, People, Want

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.447, Penguin

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• A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. C. S. LEWIS, Out of the Silent Planet True pleasures are paid for in advance; false pleasures afterwards, with heavy and compound interest.

  John Lubbock

  Silent, Pleasure, Heavy

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• I remembered my days and nights of sunshine and starshine, where life was all a wild sweet wonder, a spiritual paradise of unselfish adventure and ethical romance. And I saw before me, ever blazing and burning, the Holy Grail.

  Jack London

  Life, Spiritual, Sweet

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.7429, Delphi Classics

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• If I am to be remembered, I hope it will not be primarily for my specialized scientific work, but as a generalist; one to whom, enlarging Terence's words, nothing human and nothing in external nature was alien.

  Julian Huxley

  Aliens, Generalists, Humans

  "Memories". Book by Julian Huxley, 1970.

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• It seemed perfectly possible that, in spite of my certainty of my own genius, I might die of some illness, or perhaps even in a street accident, before I had ever glimpsed the meaning of life. My moods of happiness and self-confidence convinced me that I had a "destiny" to become a famous writer, and to be remembered as one of the most important thinkers of the century.

  Colin Wilson

  Self Confidence, Destiny, Important

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• On my hike my brain was left to wander. That was often maddening because it was tedious and monotonous sometimes, but then my the mind would take over, and that's when I'd start hearing the music in my head or thinking deeply about people I know or things that I didn't even know I remembered anymore. Those thoughts would be there. I wouldn't have had them otherwise.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Thinking, People, Brain

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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