Collier Quotes & Sayings

Change in the societies at the very bottom must come predominantly from within; we cannot impose it on them. — Paul Collier

The end of pleasure is to support the offices of life, to relieve the fatigues of business, to reward a regular action, and to encourage the continuance. — Jeremy Collier

Dangerous principles impose upon our understanding, emasculate our spirits, and spoil our temper. — Jeremy Collier

But fear - panic - knows no reason. It brings into being overnight the things that it fears. It is the greatest torment of humanity. Fear is, in short, the devil. It causes most of the sin, disaster, disease and misery of the world. It is the ravening lion roaming the earth seeking whom it may ... devour. The only refuge is in the knowledge that it has no power other than the power you give it. — Robert Collier

Sometimes people can be guilty of not working at relationships and if it's not working, oof, that's it. — Rob James-Collier

Just behind his jaw bones a tiny movement was perceptible, like the movement of gills in a fish. — John Collier

See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession. — Robert Collier

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it! — Robert Collier

Desire is proof of the availability ... — Robert Collier

Particularly with internships, you have to work for a year with no money. How on Earth are you going to finance that? — Rob James-Collier

Emulation is a handsome passion; it is enterprising, but just withal. It keeps a man within the terms of honor, and makes the contest for glory just and generous. He strives to excel, but it is by raising himself, not by depressing others. — Jeremy Collier

Conscience and covetousness are never to be reconciled; like fire and water they always destroy each other, according to the predominancy of the element. — Jeremy Collier

Upbeat people have no need of pleasantries. They barely notice them. Only the tired and depressed truly appreciate good manners, and cling to them in desperation. — Mike Collier

The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor ... — Robert Collier

I just want to say thank you to everyone who watched and tuned in and loved my evil gayness. — Rob James-Collier

We have become so accustomed to hearing everyone claim that his product is the best in the world, or the cheapest, that we take all such statements with a grain of salt. — Robert Collier

There are some young almond tress, which ordinarily look as if drawn by a childish hand. Now, as the wind sets their weak branches gibbering, they seem like shamanistic scratches on the white bone of the brittle bright night. — John Collier

You can have what you want- if you know how to form the mold for it in your own thoughts. There is no dream that may not come true, if you but learn to use the Creative Force working through you. The methods that work for one will work for all. The key to power lies in using what you have ... freely, fully and thus opening wide your channels for more creative force to flow through you. — Robert Collier

Flattery is an ensnaring quality, and leaves a very dangerous impression. It swells a man's imagination, entertains his vanity, and drives him to a doting upon his own person. — Jeremy Collier

Launching a turnaround takes courage. I cannot measure that and so it is not going to be included in my analysis, but behind the moments of change there are always a few people within these societies who have decided to try to make a difference. — Paul Collier

The reason I'm an actor and am trying to make my way in drama is to move people, to affect people, to gain a response - so these people who come up to you in the street are your audience. — Rob James-Collier

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

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

For the thousandth time, Adele Collier, don't open the closet door or you'll get crushed! — Kellyn Roth

And so a miserable but possible scenario is that countries in the bottom billion oscillate between the traps and limbo, perhaps switching in the process from one trap to another..
Let me be clear: we cannot rescue them. The societies of the bottom billion can only be rescued from within. In every society of the bottom billion there are people working for change, but usually they are defeated by the powerful internal forces stacked against them. We should be helping the heroes. So far, our efforts have been paltry: through inertia, ignorance, and incompetence, we have stood by and watched them lose.
Let me be clear: we cannot rescue them. These societies of the bottom billion can only be rescued from within. — Paul Collier

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

You are a citizen, and citizenship carries responsibilities. — Paul Collier

Just two choices on the shelf, pleasing God or pleasing self. — Kenneth E. Collier

A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. — Jeremy Collier

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

If the pen is mightier than the sword, then what is the laptop? A light saber or a life saver? — K.S. Collier

Not all developing countries are the same. — Paul Collier

I'm happiest when I'm with you" - Amanda Collier — Nicholas Sparks

Economist and Africa expert Collier analyzes why a group of 50 nations, home to the poorest one billion people, are failing. Considering issues such as civil war, dependence on extractive industries, and bad governance, he argues that the strongest industrialized countries must enact a plan to help with international policies and standards. — Amy Lockwood

Hope is a vigorous principle; it is furnished with light and heat to advise and execute; it sets the head and heart to work, and animates a man to do his utmost. And thus, by perpetually pushing and assurance, it puts a difficulty out of countenance, and makes a seeming impossibility give way. — Jeremy Collier

Sooner or later comes a crisis in our affairs, and how we meet it determines our future happiness and success. Since the beginning of time, every form of life has been called upon to meet such crisis. — Robert Collier

When in doubt, do that which makes you the most nervous. The easiest way out, is generally not the best. — J.W. Collier

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

Beverly Hills is too intimidating. Everyone's got lovely teeth, so you don't want to smile. Everyone's ripped, so you start working out at 4 in the morning and eating egg white omelets. — Rob James-Collier

If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem ... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time. — Robert Collier

Most conduct is guided by norms rather than by laws. Norms are voluntary and are effective because they are enforced by peer pressure. — Paul Collier

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

People identify with being heartbroken. We've all been heartbroken, haven't we? I've been dumped, and it feels horrible. — Rob James-Collier

Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. — Jeremy Collier

What can be more honorable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience,
to maintain the dignity of our nature, and the station assigned us? — Jeremy Collier

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

Truth is the band of union and the basis of human happiness. Without this virtue there is no reliance upon language, no confidence in friendship, no security in promises and oaths. — Jeremy Collier

The abuse of a thing is no argument against the use of it. — Jeremy Collier

Yet Malone, remarkably, was a model of restraint compared with others, such as John Payne Collier, who was also a scholar of great gifts, but grew so frustrated at the difficulty of finding physical evidence concerning Shakespeare's life that he began to create his own, forging documents to bolster his arguments if not, ultimately, his reputation. He was eventually exposed when the keeper of mineralogy at the British Museum proved with a series of ingenious chemical tests that several of Collier's "discoveries" had been written in pencil and then traced over and that the ink in the forged passages was demonstrably not ancient. It was essentially the birth of forensic science. This was in 1859. — Bill Bryson

I went to Huddersfield University Business School. That's where I learned my trade. — Rob James-Collier

Skill is less important than awareness. — Graham Collier

When people accuse me of being really posh, I think, 'Hang on a minute - no, I'm not!' — Rob James-Collier

The poems in Helena Mesa's virtuosic first book, Horse Dance Underwater, run with such speed, verve, and alacrity they leave you breathless, exhilarated, and transformed as if the purest kind of song had lifted you into the air. By this quickness of language finding lyric speech, Mesa's poems remind us of art's joyous and ecstatic effects. — Michael Collier

Poets can dodge. ("Evening Primrose") — John Collier

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you. — Robert Collier

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

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

We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them. — Jeremy Collier

It's not just modern-day society that is liberal. — Rob James-Collier

My dad doesn't watch 'Coronation Street.' But my mum is a massive fan. I'd like to think my dad will watch it for a few token episodes, as I'm in it. — Rob James-Collier

All through nature, you will find the same law. First the need, then the means. — Robert Collier

The greater the prevalence of positive thoughts, the more likely you are to receive a positive outcome. — Robert Collier

The more we sink into the infirmities of age, the nearer we are to immortal youth. All people are young in the other world. That state is an eternal spring, ever fresh and flourishing. Now, to pass from midnight into noon on the sudden, to be decrepit one minute and all spirit and activity the next, must be a desirable change. To call this dying is an abuse of language. — Jeremy Collier

The headline of an advertisement accounts for 60% of the pull of that ad. In the same way, the start of a letter makes or breaks the letter, because if the start does not interest your reader, he never gets down to the rest of your letter. — Robert Collier

Achievement is the entirety of little deliberations, rehashed all the live long day. — Robert Collier

now he sensed that she was saying goodbye to him — Catrin Collier

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

Obviously, I play a villain in 'Downton Abbey'. As an actor, you want to get a variety of roles, so to be offered the part of Joe, it was perfect. — Rob James-Collier

Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill-living. It is the plague of society, the corrupter of manners, and the underminer of property. — Jeremy Collier

Goodness is generous and diffusive; it is largeness of mind, and sweetness of temper,
balsam in the blood, and justice sublimated to a richer spirit. — Jeremy Collier

Before 'Coronation Street,' I was a jobbing actor, and after it, I'm a jobbing actor again. — Rob James-Collier

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

Not that the moderns are born with more wit than their predecessors, but, finding the world better furnished at their coming into it, they have more leisure for new thoughts, more light to direct them, and more hints to work upon. — Jeremy Collier

Envy lies between two beings equal in nature though unequal in circumstances. — Jeremy Collier

I love being chubby because chicks that smoke pot love me. They think I have food at my house. — Reno Collier

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

Your belief that you can do the thing gives your thought forces their power. — Robert Collier

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

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward. — Robert Collier

Lloyd felt as though he had just lost the woman he loved more than everyone else on earth — Catrin Collier

A man by tumbling his thoughts, and forming them into expressions, gives them a new fermentation, which works them into a finer body. — Jeremy Collier

You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be. — Robert Collier

Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings. — Robert Collier

Heroes are a mischievous race. — Jeremy Collier

I've swam with great white sharks. — Rob James-Collier

I was inspired by the androgyny of Yohji Yamanoto's designs to translate the clothing's dualities onto screen and image. I was playing with a multitude of influences for the S/S 2012 campaign, inspired by the modernist literature and architecture that is in itself a fusion of political and architectural mantras, both dreamy and concrete. — Collier Schorr

Decide the effect you want to produce in your reader. — Robert Collier

The Kingdom of Heaven is within you. — Robert Collier

People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves. — Robert Collier

All power is from within and therefore under our control — Robert Collier

Modesty was designed by Providence as a guard to virtue, and that it might be always at hand it is wrought into the mechanism of the body. It is likewise proportioned to the occasions of life, and strongest in youth when passion is so too. — Jeremy Collier

Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order. — Jeremy Collier

Being in 'Coronation Street' is only going to make me a better actor. — Rob James-Collier

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance. — Robert Collier

It takes an enormous amount of strength, courage and energy to allow yourself to be a positive person. It takes virtually no energy at all to allow yourself to become the opposite. — J.W. Collier

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

Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God's will. — Jeremy Collier

Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated. — Robert Collier

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

Live life to the fullest!
Live, laugh, love!
Your life is what you make of it! — Talina L. Collier