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I always have my journal with me. It was handmade by a guy at the San Telmo market in Buenos Aires. ...
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I credit my grandmother for my sense of style. She was known for wearing bright, outrageous things b...
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Anyone can make a difference, so you don't have to have it be some huge, global campaign... you ...
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I can honestly say that TOMS is my future. I mean I have no desire to start any other company for as...
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Almost every morning I write in my journal. I've been keeping it for a long time - I've fill...
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One thing I'm so grateful for is sidestepping the usual venture capital, private equity route. M...
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People often ask me what I consider my goal to be at TOMS. The truth is that it's changed over t...
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I believe each of us has a mission in life, and that one cannot truly be living their most fulfilled...
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Instead of squirreling away your earnings early in your career, spend on experiences that will enric...
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We are all human beings and I believe that we all should have equal rights.
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When I accept an invitation for a public speaking engagement, my purpose is to share the TOMS story ...
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Most people yearn to contribute, make the world a better place and have success.... all at the same ...
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If you have a sense that your money is somehow, even indirectly, contributing to a cause that you fi...
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I'm not a late-night person. After 10 P.M., I'm falling asleep. If I'm out at that time,...
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The idea of community and helping others has always been a part of who I am. Growing up, my parents ...
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Giving feels good, but it's also good for the bottom line. Charity is a viable growth strategy f...
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I would have never imagined that I'd become a shoe salesman so that I could give away shoes. I m...
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You know, you hear people talk about soul mates? That one person that you see, and that's it for...
BLAKE MYCOSKIE

The goal isn't how much money you make, but how much you help people.
BLAKE MYCOSKIE

It may sound too good to be true, but once you've seen the happiest people in your life who have...
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The future of TOMS is really creating a whole new business model of this one-for-one giving and expa...
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I was never really about the money. Every business I've ever started has been more of a curiosity an...
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I love what I do, but it is hard to have a personal relationship when you're never home.
BLAKE MYCOSKIE

Walk away from anyone who is unduly focused on vacation and compensation. It's a sign of potenti...
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As entrepreneurs, we often get pressured into hiring an industry executive. While it's good to h...
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Giving builds loyal customers and turns those customers into supporters... You can find passion and ...
BLAKE MYCOSKIE

I would never want to take TOMS or myself into an issues debate. That's not what we're about...
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I feel a deep sense of responsibility to share everything that we've learned from TOMS, so that ...
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When you're buying a pair of TOMS, if you don't feel like you're part of a community, th...
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With TOMS, I found a way to create sustainable giving and consistently help those who are in need.
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I always thought that I would spend the first half of my life making money so I can spend the second...
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I think sometimes we forget what we have, and occasionally it's important to remind ourselves.
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Traveling as much as I do, I get lonely sometimes. I have friends now in cities all over the world, ...
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Life is more fun when you stop caring what other people think.
BLAKE MYCOSKIE

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man...
BLAKE

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
WILLIAM BLAKE

I had so much fun playing songs from 'Based On A True Story...' and getting to see the crowd...
BLAKE SHELTON

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do n...
WILLIAM BLAKE

One thing that you can't fake is chemistry.
BLAKE SHELTON

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Some you win some you lose.
YOHAN BLAKE

For me, I always try to make it to the final.
YOHAN BLAKE

One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking a...
YOHAN BLAKE

My philosophy is to be me.
YOHAN BLAKE

It's nerve wracking being in the stadium with so many people supporting.
YOHAN BLAKE

The 100m taught me a lot and it's given me confidence.
YOHAN BLAKE

I love London, I love the British people.
YOHAN BLAKE

I work twice as hard as everybody else.
YOHAN BLAKE

When my coach gives me a program, I damage it.
YOHAN BLAKE

I've always been working just to be a world champion and it's a dream come true.
YOHAN BLAKE

If you can come to the Olympic Games and leave with a medal then that is alright.
YOHAN BLAKE

I would like to be a legend, everyone wants to be a legend.
YOHAN BLAKE

I don't need to scare the other athletes. When I'm running, I will scare them.
YOHAN BLAKE

The track is fast and I appreciate anything is possible.
YOHAN BLAKE

I'm like a beast. I just take it out on the track.
YOHAN BLAKE

When you guys are sleeping at night, I am out there working.
YOHAN BLAKE

I wasn't born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.
YOHAN BLAKE

Cricket is my first love.
YOHAN BLAKE

Ironically, being a coach on 'The Voice' and spending time with those kids, Xenia and Dia es...
BLAKE SHELTON

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
WILLIAM BLAKE

I find that I can't work and listen to radio - either I find I don't like it and it distract...
QUENTIN BLAKE

The hateful thing about most hotels nowadays is that they only have duvets. I hate duvets.
QUENTIN BLAKE

It was an accident of circumstance that I never married.
QUENTIN BLAKE

I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and o...
QUENTIN BLAKE

I don't like leaving work behind. I hate the idea that something might be happening on the drawi...
QUENTIN BLAKE

I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only...
QUENTIN BLAKE

I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, ...
QUENTIN BLAKE

I have an assistant who's very good at email, so I don't struggle with it.
QUENTIN BLAKE

Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.
QUENTIN BLAKE

I love the sea, but I avoid any sort of seaside resort that has skyscrapers or seaside entertainment...
QUENTIN BLAKE

I don't think there's an illustrator who's as good as a Titian or a Rembrandt... but the...
QUENTIN BLAKE

Television is kind of a disappointment. I often want to watch it, but I find it quite hard - I don&#...
QUENTIN BLAKE

If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
QUENTIN BLAKE

I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance...
QUENTIN BLAKE

Being positive may be a character defect of mine.
QUENTIN BLAKE

I'm trained as a teacher; that's the only thing I've got a certificate for.
QUENTIN BLAKE

Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
QUENTIN BLAKE

With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.
QUENTIN BLAKE

I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose i...
QUENTIN BLAKE

Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
QUENTIN BLAKE

Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly.
QUENTIN BLAKE

Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled ac...
QUENTIN BLAKE

I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphe...
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As an illustrator you need to understand the human body - but having looked at and understood nature...
QUENTIN BLAKE

You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.
QUENTIN BLAKE

I'm good at anything that's country - biscuits, gravy, chicken-fried steak. Look at me, for ...
BLAKE SHELTON

The representatives from various community groups really pleased me,
AARON BLAKE

I think this year we are really focusing on education, ... We need to embrace those who set out to h...
AARON BLAKE

What was painted on the B.U.C.K.S. side of the bridge with the black face crying white tears -- it's...
AARON BLAKE

I don't feel comfortable with my fellow students being out there until 3 in the morning, ... We are ...
AARON BLAKE

The two co-chairs of the [Black Leadership Institute] decided to contact who they thought were very ...
AARON BLAKE

I am a little disappointed that it wasn't packed,
AARON BLAKE

When I was a child, I probably should have been medicated about my obsession with The Spice Girls. I...
BLAKE LIVELY

I took an oath to protect the Constitution, and protecting the Constitution means not letting the pr...
BLAKE FARENTHOLD

The Gucci woman can be the equestrian woman, the woman in the suit, the woman in the flowy bohemian ...
BLAKE LIVELY

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
WILLIAM BLAKE

A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.
WILLIAM BLAKE

I take my hair, and I just play with it. I'll just take my hand, I'll mess with the front, a...
BLAKE JENNER

Since all the riches of this world May be gifts from the devil and earthly kings, I should sus...
WILLIAM BLAKE

As much as I hate to say it, what I'm coming to realize is that all we're really able to do ...
BLAKE FARENTHOLD

Why is it every time there is a tragedy in the U.S., President Obama blames the gun rather than the ...
BLAKE FARENTHOLD

I think a fair amount of my votes were 'not-for-Ortiz,' votes and I'm going to have to w...
BLAKE FARENTHOLD

Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secrecy th...
WILLIAM BLAKE

He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies ...
WILLIAM BLAKE

When we see too many battlefields, it breaks something inside of a person and they lose the ability ...
LAILA BLAKE

I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath die end. I was angry with my foe; ...
WILLIAM BLAKE

Tools were made and born with hands, Every farmer understands.
WILLIAM BLAKE

God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!
WILLIAM BLAKE

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake. -William Blak...
WILLIAM BLAKE

When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; Wh...
WILLIAM BLAKE

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to en...
WILLIAM BLAKE

But to go to school in a summer morn, Oh, it drives all joy away! Under a cruel eye outworn, ...
WILLIAM BLAKE

You fuck - you ate my cat!
KENDARE BLAKE

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
WILLIAM BLAKE

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite.
WILLIAM BLAKE

If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man...
WILLIAM BLAKE

A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
WILLIAM BLAKE

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more....
WILLIAM BLAKE

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
WILLIAM BLAKE

want people to rock out in the car and not care that people are watching, I love that feeling when t...
BLAKE LEWIS

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the pa...
WILLIAM BLAKE

The selective memory isn't selective enough.
BLAKE MORRISON

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money...
WILLIAM BLAKE

I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most...
WILLIAM BLAKE

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and...
WILLIAM BLAKE

For Mercy has a human heartPity, a human face:And Love, the human form divine,And Peace, the human d...
WILLIAM BLAKE

Exuberance is beauty.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as a...
WILLIAM BLAKE

Embraces are cominglings from the head even to the feet, and not a pompous high priest entering by a...
WILLIAM BLAKE

Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, and they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fi...
WILLIAM BLAKE

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
WILLIAM BLAKE

The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and po...
WILLIAM BLAKE

I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it no...
WILLIAM BLAKE

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
WILLIAM BLAKE

When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an i...
WILLIAM BLAKE

Every Night and every Morn
Some to Misery are born.
Every Morn and every Night
Some are bor...
WILLIAM BLAKE

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happ...
WILLIAM BLAKE

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind ...
WILLIAM BLAKE

I see every thing I paint in this world, but everybody does not see alike. To the eyes of a miser a ...
WILLIAM BLAKE

If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is: infinite.
For ...
WILLIAM BLAKE

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is no...
WILLIAM BLAKE

The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.
WILLIAM BLAKE

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral ...
WILLIAM BLAKE

The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
WILLIAM BLAKE

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, ar...
WILLIAM BLAKE

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Every harlot was a virgin once.
WILLIAM BLAKE

What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful conseq...
WILLIAM BLAKE

Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn...
WILLIAM BLAKE

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
WILLIAM BLAKE

If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Opposition is true friendship.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen...
WILLIAM BLAKE

He who desires but does not act, breeds pestilence.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
WILLIAM BLAKE

A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
WILLIAM BLAKE

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the sc...
WILLIAM BLAKE

The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for...
WILLIAM BLAKE

To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowled...
WILLIAM BLAKE

All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows...
WILLIAM BLAKE

To create a little flower is the labor of ages.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Cruelty has a Human Heart, And jealousy a Human Face; Terror the Human Form Divine, And secrecy the ...
WILLIAM BLAKE

Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no pas...
WILLIAM BLAKE

If I'd known I was gonna live this long. I'd have taken better care of myself. Eubie Blake At Age 10...
EUBIE BLAKE

Energy is eternal delight.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Expect poison from standing water.
WILLIAM BLAKE

He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies li...
WILLIAM BLAKE

The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.
WILLIAM BLAKE

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Thinking as I do that the Creator of this world is a very cruel being, and being a worshipper of Chr...
WILLIAM BLAKE

Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.
WILLIAM BLAKE

This life's dim windows of the soul
Distorts the heavens from pole to pole
And leads you to be...
WILLIAM BLAKE

To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am...
WILLIAM BLAKE

What is now proved was only once imagined.
WILLIAM BLAKE

To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of...
WILLIAM BLAKE

My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt; helpless, naked, piping loud, l...
WILLIAM BLAKE

When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!
WILLIAM BLAKE

I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy...
WILLIAM BLAKE

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for man...
WILLIAM BLAKE

I must create a system or be enslaved by another man s; I will not reason and compare: my business i...
WILLIAM BLAKE

He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.
WILLIAM BLAKE

That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against t...
WILLIAM BLAKE

You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue...
WILLIAM BLAKE

Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little ...
WILLIAM BLAKE

O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath...
WILLIAM BLAKE

Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision...
BLAKE CLARK

Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.
WILLIAM BLAKE

As a man is, so he sees.
WILLIAM BLAKE

I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth, I've a wife that I lov...
WILLIAM BLAKE

Exercise your purchasing power as a consumer, volunteer and bring joy to those in need, and share your experiences, tell your stories, and inspire others along the way.

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