Top 100 Collier Quotes
#1. Open Secret boasts a nifty plot and, in Coroner Fortin, a fascinating protagonist who will likely be around for a long time. Deryn Collier is a talent to watch,
Giles Blunt
#2. data. Paul Collier is one of the few who has ventured a recent guess. He recently asked: "Is this dismal performance just an artifact of the data?
Morten Jerven
#3. For the thousandth time, Adele Collier, don't open the closet door or you'll get crushed!
Kellyn Roth
#5. The Collier Street clouds lowered, and How soon is now? resigned itself to B-side status.
Morrissey
#6. It was terrifying, liberating, and risky. But one day I woke up and decided to try it." (On writing her first novel, "Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society")
Amy Hill Hearth
#7. The devil?" Jason heaved the tick over his shoulder like a collier with his sack. "Satan. The adversary. The enemy of the plan of God. The undoer. The destroyer. Yes. He definitely was." Jason smiled. "But he meant well.
Orson Scott Card
#8. Lisa Lampanelli lost 100 pounds, but that's because she was poached for ivory.
Reno Collier
#9. Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order.
Jeremy Collier
#10. The greater the prevalence of positive thoughts, the more likely you are to receive a positive outcome.
Robert Collier
#11. There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency.
Jeremy Collier
#12. Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.
Jeremy Collier
#14. He that would relish success to a purpose should keep his passions cool, and his expectations low; and then it is possible that his fortune might exceed his fancy; for an advantage always rises by surprise; and is almost always doubled by being unlooked for.
Jeremy Collier
#15. Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.
Robert Collier
#18. It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it.
Robert Collier
#19. It was so beautiful I could hardly keep my eyes off it. "Father, it's so big," I said. He grinned. "This is nothing, Tim. Wait till we get down to Verplancks
James Lincoln Collier
#20. I think because of my background - I went through university and did an academic career and fell into acting - I've never had a game plan for my career because I got into it quite ad hoc.
Rob James-Collier
#21. Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even for covetousness; but envy gets no reward but vexation.
Jeremy Collier
#22. Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.
Robert Collier
#23. It is only when you despair of all ordinary means, it is only when you convince it that it must help you or you perish, that the seed of life in you bestirs itself to provide a new resource.
Robert Collier
#24. Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.
Robert Collier
#25. True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
Jeremy Collier
#27. I went to Huddersfield University Business School. That's where I learned my trade.
Rob James-Collier
#28. Rebels usually have something to complain about, and if they don't they make it up. All too often the really disadvantaged are in no position to rebel; they just suffer quietly.
Paul Collier
#29. See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.
Robert Collier
#30. How do we give credible hope to the billion poorest people in the world? It requires compassion to get ourselves started, and enlightened self-interest to get serious ... If economic divergence continues, combined with global integration, it will build a nightmare for our children.
Paul Collier
#31. The abuse of a thing is no argument against the use of it.
Jeremy Collier
#32. Content-based marketing gets repeated in social media and increases word-of-mouth mentions; it's the best way to gather buzz about a product.
Marsha Collier
#33. For those of you who don't know who I am, I played Natalie on The Facts of Life.
Reno Collier
#34. I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.
Jeremy Collier
#35. You are today the result of your thoughts of yesterday, and the many yesterdays preceeding it. You are forming today the mold for what you will be in the years to come.
Robert Collier
#36. One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind.
Robert Collier
#37. Those who despise fame seldom deserve it. We are apt to undervalue the purchase we cannot reach, to conceal our poverty the better. It is a spark which kindles upon the best fuel, and burns brightest in the bravest breast.
Jeremy Collier
#38. Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin.
Robert Collier
#39. Control your thoughts and you control your circumstance.
Robert Collier
#40. Electorates tend to get the politicians they deserve.
Paul Collier
#41. We can do only what we think we can do. We can be only what we think we can be. We can have only what we think we can have. What we do, what we are, what we have, all depend upon what we think.
Robert Collier
#42. The essence of this law is that you must think abundance; see abundance, feel abundance, believe abundance. Let no thought of limitation enter your mind.
Robert Collier
#43. Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.
Robert Collier
#44. I got into acting for the different scenarios and roles and meeting different people.
Rob James-Collier
#45. The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor ...
Robert Collier
#46. Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.
Robert Collier
#47. Dangerous principles impose upon our understanding, emasculate our spirits, and spoil our temper.
Jeremy Collier
#48. Temperance keeps the senses clear and unembarrassed, and makes them seize the object with more keenness and satisfaction. It appears with life in the face, and decorum in the person; it gives you the command of your head, and secures your health, and preserves you in a condition for business.
Jeremy Collier
#49. Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream - but create!
Robert Collier
#50. Avoid all affectation and singularity. What is according to nature is best, and what is contrary to it is always distasteful. Nothing is graceful that is not our own.
Jeremy Collier
#51. Because you've done the horrible jobs, it gives you an even grittier determination to succeed.
Rob James-Collier
#52. Face towards the perfect image of every organ and the shadows of disease will never touch you.
Robert Collier
#54. Politicians would only move beyond gestures once there was a critical mass of informed citizens.
Paul Collier
#55. In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.
Jeremy Collier
#56. Pressure works, but it needs to be organized. This is the domain of the NGOs and the rock stars.
Paul Collier
#57. Always enter the conversation already taking place in the customer's mind.
Robert Collier
#58. There is a simple way of avoiding excess risk-taking by the managers of our financial institutions. It is to make it a crime ... had a crime for reckless management of a financial institution been on the books, Northern Rock and RBS would not have blown up.
Paul Collier
#59. I would like to do theatre because it scares me, and I think you should do things that scare you.
Rob James-Collier
#60. by the 1790's an average American over fifteen years old drank just under six gallons of absolute alcohol each year. . . . The comparable modern average is less than 2.9 gallons per capita. We
Christopher Collier
#61. You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.
Robert Collier
#62. It is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious. Your conscious mind is the porter at the door, the watchman at the gate. It is to the conscious mind that the subconscious looks for all its impressions.
Robert Collier
#63. I can only approach it as a woman. Masculinity has been depicted in very black-and-white terms. There never seems to be a wide range of emotional definitions of men.
Collier Schorr
#64. I can't watch myself on screen without dying a little bit inside. And there are lots of moments when I think, 'What am I doing as an actor? I can't act!'
Rob James-Collier
#65. Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.
Jeremy Collier
#66. The artist is a man who finds that the form or shape of things externally corresponds, in some strange way, to the movements of his mental and emotional life.
Graham Collier
#67. Most actors will tell you that villains are the most interesting to play.
Rob James-Collier
#68. and in that single moment she felt as though she had seen into his soul and the very heart of the the love he bore for her and their children
Catrin Collier
#69. Sometimes people can be guilty of not working at relationships and if it's not working, oof, that's it.
Rob James-Collier
#70. The critical changes in trade policy ... are politically difficult not because they threaten interests (they don't) but because they do not fit into any of the current slogans and so don't make it onto the agenda.
Paul Collier
#71. It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.
Robert Collier
#72. The aid agencies are not run by fools. they are full of intelligent people severely constrained by what public opinion permits.
Paul Collier
#73. Envy is an ill-natured vice, and is made up of meanness and malice. It wishes the force of goodness to be strained, and the measure of happiness abated. It laments over prosperity, and sickens at the sight of health. It oftentimes wants spirit as well as good nature.
Jeremy Collier
#74. The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.
Robert Collier
#75. Persuading everyone to behave decently to each other because the society is so fragile is a worthy goal, but it may be more straightforward just to make the societies less fragile, which means developing their economies.
Paul Collier
#76. You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.
Robert Collier
#77. I'm enjoying two beautiful visions tonight. Watching you stand there against a marvelous background has to be the most intriguing sunset I have ever experienced.
K.S. Collier
#78. I always had a sense that clothes, be it uniform or vintage, could help to create a character.
Collier Schorr
#79. The power for happiness, for good, for everything we need of life is within each one of us. The power is there - unlimited power.
Robert Collier
#81. See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.
Robert Collier
#82. First the stalk - then the roots. First the need - then the means to satisfy that need. First the nucleus -then the elements needed for its growth.
Robert Collier
#83. All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck - who keeps right on going - is the man who is there when the good luck comes - and is ready to receive it.
Robert Collier
#84. You don't buy evil characters lattes. That's not normal behavior.
Rob James-Collier
#85. I sometimes marvel that a third-rate writer like me has been able to palm himself off as a second-rate writer.
John Collier
#86. There is a very great difference - is there not? - between the temporal and the eternal judgments, a very great difference between a man's reputation and a man's character, for reputation is what men think and say of us, while character is what God and the angels know of us.
Price Collier
#87. Violence always leads to pain Trendal Malian- Ishtaria: Prince of Blades
Keith Collier
#88. You love him because this is what you do. Over and over again. You knit yourself right up into these men's lives, these men who will never ever be able to love you back, and then you wonder like a crazy person why you aren't the chosen one at the end. You have to stop doing this ...
Collier Lumpkin
#89. Your belief that you can do the thing gives your thought forces their power.
Robert Collier
#90. Your real self - the 'I am I' - is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm.
Robert Collier
#91. As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!
Robert Collier
#92. Intemperance is a dangerous companion. It throws many people off their guard, betrays them to a great many indecencies, to ruinous passions, to disadvantages in fortune; makes them discover secrets, drive foolish bargains, engage in play, and often to stagger from the tavern to the stews.
Jeremy Collier
#94. True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. Resolution lies more in the head than in the veins, and a just sense of honor and of infamy, of duty and of religion, will carry us farther than all the force of mechanism.
Jeremy Collier
#95. People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.
Robert Collier
#96. In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.
Robert Collier
#97. When in doubt, do that which makes you the most nervous. The easiest way out, is generally not the best.
J.W. Collier
#98. If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.
Robert Collier
#99. My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance.
Rob James-Collier
#100. As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive; no laconism can reach it: 'Tis the short hand of the mind, and crowds a great deal in a little room
Jeremy Collier
