Janet Erskine Stuart quote: "The hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery."

There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.
JANET ERSKINE STUART

In no order of things is adolescence the time of the simple life.
JANET ERSKINE STUART

To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing
JANET ERSKINE STUART

You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom.
JANET ERSKINE STUART

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to thing when you have outlived the first interest an...
JANET ERSKINE STUART

In no order of things is adolescence the time of simple life.
JANET ERSKINE STUART

All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.
JANET ERSKINE STUART

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, ...
JANET ERSKINE STUART

You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom
JANET ERSKINE STUART

Even dirty water has a bath
R.W. ERSKINE

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
JOHN ERSKINE

Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.
JOHN ERSKINE

In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes.
JOHN ERSKINE

Only if we can restrain ourselves is good conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much disciplin...
JOHN ERSKINE

The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse...
RALPH ERSKINE

There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman ...
JOHN ERSKINE

There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman i...
JOHN ERSKINE

There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming wom...
JOHN ERSKINE

The rule of the road is a paradox quite, If you drive with a whip or a thong; If you go to the...
HENRY ERSKINE

Understanding people’s difficulties and—just as crucial—helping people understand their own di...
KATHRYN ERSKINE

The team that won that pennant was in the minors when the season began, ... The old guard, that came...
CARL ERSKINE

We were all very nostalgic about those guys.
CARL ERSKINE

It may re-open some eyes and ears to the fact that pitchers can and should go nine innings,
CARL ERSKINE

Today's managers don't give the starting pitcher a chance. Maybe this White Sox staff has re-proved ...
CARL ERSKINE

It's a fundraiser, but it's more than that. It's a chance to honor the Special Olympics. A lot of th...
CARL ERSKINE

We only charge $5 because we want families to enjoy the evening. It's a good wholesome evening. Ther...
CARL ERSKINE

Peter O'Malley grew up in the '50s around the clubhouse, so all of us who were playing in his kid da...
CARL ERSKINE

You hear the same thing every year, but that's because it's true, ... In a short series, pitching is...
CARL ERSKINE

Here again, the White Sox have made the World Series and awakened the city. It was always a challeng...
CARL ERSKINE

[Two other books I recommend are] What I Learned from Jackie Robinson ... Voices of Summer.
CARL ERSKINE

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
LORD ERSKINE

That which is called firmness in a king is called obstinacy in a donkey.
LORD ERSKINE

Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the...
JOHN ERSKINE

We wanted to do something that would be a movement toward preventing what happened to Gary from happ...
RON ERSKINE

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing
JOHN ERSKINE

Sometimes I read the same books over and over and over. What's great about books is that the stuff i...
KATHRYN ERSKINE

This transaction brings together two companies which are growing strongly with highly complementary ...
PETER ERSKINE

The strong growth that we reported across all our businesses in the first quarter was maintained int...
PETER ERSKINE

Our strong momentum is being sustained in both the pre-pay and contract markets, and the customer re...
PETER ERSKINE

Capital expenditure in the full year will be around STG100 million higher than we have previously in...
PETER ERSKINE

It's ... good for customers. They have no overlapping territory, so they will be able to offer our c...
PETER ERSKINE

I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar;...
THOMAS ERSKINE

I thought maybe I'd get a couple more, ... but not like this. Everyone said they are addicting. I ju...
JOHN ERSKINE

Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information
JOHN ERSKINE

Most people have some sort of religion, at least they know which church they're staying away from
JOHN ERSKINE

Why would we ever be assembled again after the 50th anniversary passes? ... We'll probably all go ba...
CARL ERSKINE

That's been handed down over the years. That was not uncommon to be said: 'Get me something to work ...
CARL ERSKINE

In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.
THOMAS ERSKINE

I always hope we'll pack the Paramount. We've had up to 1,000 attend. I'd just like to see the roof ...
CARL ERSKINE

You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weakne...
ERSKINE BOWLES

That which is called firmness in a king is called obstinacy in a donkey
JOHN ERSKINE

In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where she wants and gets up and goes.
JOHN ERSKINE

It was bitter and sweet,
CARL ERSKINE

This kid who was always laid back, he's got a few bubbles in him, he said: 'Bring 'em on today, I'll...
CARL ERSKINE

O'Malley had to be the fall guy,
CARL ERSKINE

I don't like the word soon because you don't know when it's going to sneak up on you and turn into N...
KATHRYN ERSKINE

Come closer, boys. It will be easier for you.
ERSKINE CHILDERS

The president is not exhausted, I am, ... We're just trying to keep up with him.
ERSKINE BOWLES

I want to see if you have the same sense of joy that I do. Because you will never see someone who is...
ERSKINE BOWLES

We're not moving anywhere right now,
ERSKINE BOWLES

Come January 1, I promise you I will be prepared to accept this public trust,
ERSKINE BOWLES

I can't imagine having another opportunity to have such a positive impact on the lives and livelihoo...
ERSKINE BOWLES

Nobody thought we could balance the federal budget, ... I found that if I just listened hard enough,...
ERSKINE BOWLES

will lay a strong foundation for further action.
ERSKINE BOWLES

The timing couldn't be better for me,
ERSKINE BOWLES

I really believe I've been preparing for this job all my life,
ERSKINE BOWLES

To claim to understand, is a statement that only your imagination could conceive.
R.W. ERSKINE

I always thought that I was okay with arithmetic.
ERSKINE BOWLES

Romney said that his tax reform proposal is 'very similar to the Simpson-Bowles plan.' How I...
ERSKINE BOWLES

You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weakne...
ERSKINE BOWLES

It will be about which candidate, which of the two candidates remaining, is best suited to make a po...
ERSKINE BOWLES

I am not a politician.
ERSKINE BOWLES

I think it's absolutely clear that the fiscal path we are on is not sustainable, and for me, the...
ERSKINE BOWLES

The American people know that every day 3,000 kids begin to smoke, 1,000 of them die an early death....
ERSKINE BOWLES

I think that if we don't get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable eco...
ERSKINE BOWLES

And I believe in having an administration that has clearly defined goals, objectives and time lines ...
ERSKINE BOWLES

We live in a time today where we face fierce global competition.
ERSKINE BOWLES

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.
ERSKINE BOWLES

Finally, it's very good for our people. Because there's no overlapping territories, we can really bu...
PETER ERSKINE

Even though I didn't think I'd like empathy it kind of creeps up on you and makes you feel all warm ...
KATHRYN ERSKINE

In Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, the government in a matter of years has put a lot of energy behind...
TRISTRAM STUART

When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you liv...
STUART SCOTT

Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.
STUART CHASE

Heartless though it may seem to some, among the least harmful things to eat are sustainably culled w...
TRISTRAM STUART

Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to ...
STUART WILDE

In my end is my beginning.
MARY STUART

You’re only a first year!” Tina cried. “And you’re already getting death threats! Do you hav...
STUART GIBBS

The British were keen for 30 caliber guns, did not believe in daylight bombing. American experts sai...
STUART SYMINGTON

If you wait for customers to tell you that you need to do something, you're too late. Good busin...
STUART ROSE

Sure, you would lose more bombers without fighters, but, flying in formation, you could get the job ...
STUART SYMINGTON

As the words of my book, 'The Bloodless Revolution,' accumulated, I envisaged a parallel gro...
TRISTRAM STUART

A first novel should be brash and ambitious, and announce the arrival of a new talent.
STUART WOODS

The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.
STUART WILDE

To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certain...
MARY STUART

Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.
STUART CHASE

If you reach for the stars, you just might land on a decently sized hill.
STUART HILL

Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doin...
STUART HENDERSON

Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.
STUART CLOETE

Winning doesn't satisfy us -- we need to do it again, and again. The taste of success seems merely t...
STUART WALKER

If people concentrated on their responsibilities, others would have their rights.
STUART BRISCOE

People have a natural tendency to flee to the mountains when things get tough.
STUART BRISCOE

Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.
STUART CHASE

No more tears now; I will think upon revenge.
MARY STUART

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.
STUART CHASE

The human brain is a most unusual instrument of elegant and as yet unknown capacity.
STUART SEATON

Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system.
STUART STEVENS

I certainly don't think adrenalin coursing through your veins, is going to help with the fine mo...
STUART APPLEBY

Once food gets into our fridges, larders and kitchens, ensuring that it gets used up before going of...
TRISTRAM STUART

I keep working out for me, but I also keep working out for my daughters. I want Taelor and Sydni to ...
STUART SCOTT

When I got married in my twenties, I had a happy marriage and happy kids but at some point in time I...
STUART ROSE

Who cares if a carrot has a slight bend? They're all the same when they end up on the plate.
TRISTRAM STUART

A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets.
GLORIA STUART

When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn...
GLORIA STUART

If a cow walked into this room, I'd probably walk out. I could milk it, but my dad never forced ...
STUART APPLEBY

Depending on the type, up to 50 percent of algae is oil.
BEN STUART

It's not particularly surprising that these ads didn't do as well when you consider they are talking...
BEN STUART

It's not a very big part of the population. And we're targeting a fraction of that 6%. That narrows ...
BEN STUART

It's not about being funny. It's about being candid and real. This is a marked shift in our approach...
BEN STUART

In the United States, under 3 percent of municipal food waste - so that's the food scraps that g...
TRISTRAM STUART

The requirements for illustrating an eight-page story are as different from that of an ensemble-cast...
STUART IMMONEN

It never occurred to me that this was a trick. In this industry, you take somebody at their word.
ANDREW STUART

This is literally a no-sweat workout. You do each exercise intensively, but for only about four minu...
ANDREW STUART

I provided references from my bank, my mortgage and my job contract. I had to buy a car and put 35 p...
ANDREW STUART

The smoke was rising to the top deck as the passengers began to come down the stairs.
ANDREW STUART

Most can't afford their medication and have reverted back to exhibiting mentally unstable tendencies...
ANDREW STUART

Some of them are just down on their luck, but a lot are mentally ill.
ANDREW STUART

I grew up on hip-hop. I grew up on Run-D.M.C., Whodini, LL when I was in college, so I'm more of...
STUART SCOTT

I've got corporate executives, my bosses... this is true... who will text message me... and say,...
STUART SCOTT

I was the chief executive once, I've been there. My recommendation to anybody is don't go ba...
STUART ROSE

Seasonally ploughing and harvesting crops will mash up a few moles, slice through a burrow of field ...
TRISTRAM STUART

I actually think the whole concept of retirement is a bit stupid, so yes, I do want to do something ...
STUART ROSE

Food redistribution is one of the best win-win solutions for food waste avoidance. Food companies ca...
TRISTRAM STUART

A hunk of beef raised on Scottish moorland has a very different ecological footprint from one create...
TRISTRAM STUART

That was just kind of a surprise when the doctor said, 'We did a biopsy on your appendix, and yo...
STUART SCOTT

The purpose of farming is to deprive other species of the land and sequester it for our own use. But...
TRISTRAM STUART

Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.
STUART CHASE

You gotta know that you're better than anybody, 'cause to me, if you don't go in like th...
STUART SCOTT

As retail goes through a fundamental shift into the digital world, I believe Ocado's model and t...
STUART ROSE

That organization has always played in-your-face. That's the way they play. They come early and try ...
BRAD STUART

They scored 30 seconds into it and we let that affect us more than it should have. That's going to h...
BRAD STUART

A lot of us were kept out of the loop, and maybe the process could've been a little more democratic....
BRAD STUART

It's not hard to do, it's just hard to do it every day.
BRAD STUART

We had a lot of opportunities in the second to get a lead and build on it, but we weren't able to do...
BRAD STUART

Special teams were the difference and we had a lot of chances, especially in the second, to get a le...
BRAD STUART

It came to the point after that game where we were either going to pack it in and have a miserable c...
BRAD STUART

It's the evolution of things. Guys come up and fit in. It's worked well for us.
BRAD STUART

It's great. He's a big part of this team and obviously he's done great for them over there. I'm sure...
BRAD STUART

That was my second game ever and I'm in the middle of a line brawl.
BRAD STUART

It allows them to see different competition and to see different competition. It allows them to see ...
BILLIE STUART

We could use more volunteers.
BILLIE STUART

Not just the bowlers come. But the parents and the brothers and sisters. The whole family comes and ...
BILLIE STUART

This is huge. There's going to be a lot of energy. It's going to be fun.
BILLIE STUART

You have the bowlers and their families coming from all over the state.
BILLIE STUART

We live in a world where there are a hell of a lot of new inputs that need to be factored in to your...
STUART ROSE

We domesticated pigs to turn food waste back into food. And yet, in Europe, that practice has become...
TRISTRAM STUART

I didn't really get into golf until I was about 14. My mom and dad were taking lessons from a pr...
STUART APPLEBY

(There’s a rumor that World War III almost started when the computer in charge of the North Americ...
STUART GIBBS

You can’t keep me here against my will!” he told Nina. “I am one of the most influential men o...
STUART GIBBS

Yes, we drink our own urine in space. They left that out of Star Trek too. The
STUART GIBBS

I forked some of my enchiladas in my mouth, only to discover they weren't enchiladas. They were live...
STUART GIBBS

Usually when people hear my parents are scientists, they assume they're awkward, unathletic nerds wh...
STUART GIBBS

Yes, we drink our own urine in space.
STUART GIBBS

One day's delay is another day's lack of progress.
STUART BOWEN

I have always been an advocate and was, in my last job at M&S, a supporter of the Al Gore dictum...
STUART ROSE

He was sound asleep, his long legs stretched out in front of him, the blessed fire blazing, an empty...
ANNE STUART

Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and...
JESSE STUART

There's a dark side to each and every human soul. We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most p...
STUART STEVENS

I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a ...
STUART CHASE

I do not think that there is rampant sexual harassment on the campus.
STUART BROWN

The rich get richer. Not only because they have surpluses with which to invest, but because of the o...
STUART WILDE

Clearly it would be quite nice to get to 400 pence (but) that will only be a journey. The market wil...
STUART ROSE

[BBC Three succeeded BBC Four as the non-terrestrial channel of the year, with notable hits in comed...
STUART MURPHY

In some cases, the ideal thing with organic gardening is to have more than one garden - one plot whe...
STUART GAUTHIER

For almost 20 years, I've reported on some amazing feats of athleticism for ESPN. But the one th...
STUART SCOTT

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully va...
STUART CHASE

In Kenya, where there isn't the luxury of feeding grains to animals, livestock yield more calori...
TRISTRAM STUART

Good food for free has been the holy grail of foragers since our ancestors first climbed down from t...
TRISTRAM STUART

For some conservatives, it was like a cold dish towel across their face, reminding them that, 'wait ...
STUART ROTHENBERG

My father-in-law was once Chairman of Military Affairs in the Senate, the latter part of the Wilson ...
STUART SYMINGTON

It feels like an easy sum to gauge the balance between forests and, say, the proliferating free news...
TRISTRAM STUART

The top golfers in the world are like Formula One cars when it comes to their swings.
STUART APPLEBY

I will do whatever it takes to win a football match.
STUART PEARCE

I knew where I was. But I just wanted to hear it from his lips. I didn't want to come in and someone...
STUART APPLEBY

It's very quiet and almost ethereal and you would never guess that we are a very short drive ? less ...
ANNIE STUART

The FAA is now finding that the statutes as crafted don't fit. So now they have to be very liberal i...
STUART WITT

It begs the question as to the correctness of the accounts to start with and I think that's permeate...
STUART SMITH

I think there's a message permeating to just watch any over-exuberance with the resources stocks.
STUART SMITH

It also clarifies that it is illegal for counterfeiters to sell counterfeit labels, patches and meda...
STUART GOSSWEIN

I'm looking forward to the meet because the ladies have been working hard all year long only to focu...
STUART WILSON

We're coming off our winter training which we did here in Atlanta. We only have one month until the ...
STUART WILSON

Now that these species have been documented we can go back and start to learn something about their ...
BRYAN STUART

It's all about the power of touch, which the medical profession is starting to learn has amazing hea...
BRAD STUART

It's almost kind of the worst scenario for the union. I would think that sometime in the next couple...
STUART KLASKIN

I'm just looking forward to playing, and if anything else comes my way it's a bonus. I'm looking to ...
STUART LAW

It's the end of a saga that devalues the Gerry Robinson brand - it was greedy of him to want such a ...
STUART FRASER

We found that vegetation is a powerful cooling mechanism. It appears to be the most effective tool t...
STUART GAFFIN

To realize the importance the imagination could have in friendship, to understand its immense power ...
STUART MILLER

The hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery.

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The hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery.

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