Three Things Quotes

• Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

  Confucius

  Motivational, Wisdom, Buddhist

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• There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

  Bill Bryson

  Age, Lightning, Rolling Along

  FaceBook post by Bill Bryson from Apr 07, 2015

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• A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.

  William Faulkner

  Writing, Two, Imagination

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• Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Motivational, Success, People

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• There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life. These are wine, women and song.

  Neil Gaiman

  Song, Pain, Wine

  Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

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• Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Three, Attention, Pay

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• There are three things healthy people most need to do - to be creatively productive, to render service, and to act in accordance with their moral impulses. In all three respects modern society frustrates most people most of the time.

  E. F. Schumacher

  People, Healthy, Needs

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• Probably those three things affect the most people: reproductive freedom, freedom from violence, and democratic families. But there may well be someone sitting at this table who has a great idea to do something else that wouldn't come under those umbrellas and that would really be great, and make all kinds of change.

  Gloria Steinem

  Ideas, People, Three

  Source: bluestockingsmag.com

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• In my opinion, sexiness comes down to three things: chemistry, sense of humor, and treatment of waitstaff at restaurants. If the sparks don’t fly from the beginning, they never will. If he doesn’t get your sense of humor from the first conversation, you’ll always secretly be looking for someone who does. And if a guy can’t see restaurant servers as real people, with needs and dreams and crappy jobs, then I don’t want to be with him, even if he just won the Pulitzer Prize.

  Rhoda Janzen

  Dream, Jobs, Real

  Rhoda Janzen (2011). “Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home”, p.158, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I read for three things; first, to know what the world has done the last twenty-four hours, and is about to do today; second, for the knowledge that I specially want in my work; and third, for what will bring my mind into a proper mood.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Reading, Mind, Twenties

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• In my opinion, sexiness comes down to three things: chemistry, sense of humor, and treatment of waitstaff at restaurants.

  Rhoda Janzen

  Three, Opinion, Sense Of Humor

  Rhoda Janzen (2011). “Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home”, p.158, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.

  F.B. Meyer

  God, Three, Inward

  F. B. Meyer (1972). “Fellowship with God”

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• Anyone who comes to grips with the issues raised in The Marrow of Modern Divinity will almost certainly grow by leaps and bounds in understanding three things: the grace of God, the Christian life, and the very nature of the gospel itself.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Christian, Issues, Grace

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• I gave (my drivers) three things: a sense of optimism, a creative environment, and the ultimate motivator-competition. By competing with each other in-house, we wound up beating our rivals.

  Enzo Ferrari

  Leadership, Optimism, House

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• In terms of getting people to experiment more and take more risk, there are at least three things that immediately come to my mind. Number one, of course, is role-modeling it yourself. Number two is when people take intelligent, smart risks and yet it doesn't work out, not shooting them. And number three, being honest with yourself. If the culture you have is radically different from an experiment and take-risk culture, then you have a big change you going to have to make—and no little gimmicks are going to do it for you.

  John P. Kotter

  Smart, Intelligent, Two

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• Happiness is attained by three things: being patient when tested, being thankful when receiving a blessing, and being repentant upon sinning.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Blessing, Being Thankful, Receiving

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• College is about three things: homework, fun, and sleep...but you can only choose two.

  Andy Stern

  Fun, Sleep, College

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• There are three things you need to be a good writer: you need to read a lot, you need to write a lot, and you need a lot of feedback.

  Clay Shirky

  Writing, Three, Needs

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• Every night before I go to sleep I say out loud three things that I am grateful for, all the significant, insignificant, extraordinary, ordinary stuff of my life. It is s small practice and humble, and yet, I find I sleep better holding what lightens and softens my life every so briefly at the end of the day.

  Carrie Newcomer

  Grateful, Humble, Sleep

  "A Permeable Life: Poetry and Essays". Book by Carrie Newcomer, onbeing.org. March 17, 2014.

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• There are only two things that can destroy a healthy [hu]man: love trouble, ambition, and financial catastrophe. And that's already three things, and there are a lot more.

  Peter Altenberg

  Ambition, Men, Two

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• ... in the movies Paris is designed as a backdrop for only three things--love, fashion shows, and revolution.

  Jeanine Basinger

  Movie, Fashion, Paris

  Jeanine Basinger (2013). “A Woman's View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960”, Knopf

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• Day by day, dear Lord, of thee three things I pray:
  to see thee more clearly,
  love thee more dearly,
  follow thee more nearly,
  day by day.

  Richard of Chichester

  Prayer, Dear Lord, Three

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• There are three things without which there is no country--common language, common judicature, and co-tillage land--for without these a country cannot support itself in peace and social union.

  Thomas Davis

  Country, Land, Support

  Thomas Davis (1854). “Literary and Historical Essays”, p.174

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• There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

  Henry Miller

  Love, Funny, Strong Women

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• The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability, are three things sufficient to render even a great man ridiculous.

  Voltaire

  Philosophy, Men, Desire

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French”, p.118

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