A Quote by Henry David Thoreau

I have not the most definite designs on the future.

Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau
American - Author
July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862

The definite link between all the women who wear my designs is that they are strong, independent, and with their own opinions.

Roksanda Ilincic

The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose, backed by a definite plan.

Napoleon Hill

The paradox is that when we model future designs on past successes, we are inviting failure down the line; when we take into account past failures and anticipate potential new ways in which failure can occur, we are more likely to produce successful designs.

Henry Petroski

I'm intrigued by traditional Indian designs. They are so beautifully handcrafted, and the designs are so intricate and beautiful. I really prefer the Indian designs.

Nargis Fakhri

If our designs are failing due to the constant rain of changing requirements, it is our designs that are at fault. We must somehow find a way to make our designs resilient to such changes and protect them from rotting.

Robert Cecil Martin

Every sentence in order to have definite scientific meaning must be practically or at least theoretically verifiable as either true or false upon the basis of experimental measurements either practically or theoretically obtainable by carrying out a definite and previously specified operation in the future. The meaning of such a sentence is the method of its verification.

Walter A. Shewhart

In 'The Plato Papers' I wanted to get another perspective on the present moment by extrapolating into the distant future. So in that sense, there's a definite similarity of purpose between a book set in the future and a book set in the past.

Peter Ackroyd

God's designs regarding you, and His methods of bringing about these designs, are infinitely wise.

Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

My personality resembles my designs to a large extent. I'm in sync with myself and I'm transparent, just like my designs.

Elie Saab

About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

Manolo Blahnik

All of us have to work toward a definite future... that can motivate and inspire people to change the world.

Peter Thiel

A definite forgiveness would mean a definite recognition of our strength.

Mahatma Gandhi

IDEAS CAN BE TRANSMUTED INTO CASH THROUGH THE POWER OF DEFINITE PURPOSE, PLUS DEFINITE PLANS.

Napoleon Hill

Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.

John Lancaster Spalding

Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.

Eric Berne

There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs.

Edmund Burke

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