Big Ideas tagged with "George Bernard Shaw"



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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

~ George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community…and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

~ George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

~ George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

~ George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable on persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

~ George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

~ George Bernard Shaw Quotes




Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone by stone, a palace.

~ George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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You see things as they are and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were, and I say, "Why not?"

~ George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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You see things and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were and I say 'Why not?'

~ George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

~ George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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