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  • The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life. -- Rowan Atkinson
  • Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen. -- Jimmy Buffett
  • The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. -- John Dewey
  • No two children learn in the same way. While we might agree that every American eight-year-old should be able to read and multiply, beyond those basics, there are few reasons to make every student follow the same path. -- John Katzman
  • When I was about 2 years old, I found a bee that had been stepped on on the foot path, and so I picked it up to rescue it, and it stung me on the hand. From that day forward, I've been terrified of bees. -- Bindi Irwin
  • I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. But it was a dangerous path to be walking on as far as having a substantive life. Because the casualty rate at the Venice Film Festival for 18-year-olds? High. -- Ethan Hawke
  • The old university attitude of 'publish or perish' has changed. Students and academics are realising that institutions such as Imperial College are also wealth-generators. It is very satisfying to be in a university where you have the freedom to innovate and yet know that there is a path to translate your work into industry. -- Chris Toumazou
  • You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally handicapped guy even if he punches you first. And you don't argue when a women tells you she's only making 80 cents to your dollar. It's the path of least resistance. You save your energy for more important battles. -- Scott Adams
  • The book of 'The Hobbit' was given to me to read by a friend of my mother when I was about 12 years old: it set my life on a different path. Next, I read 'The Lord of The Rings' trilogy, then 'The Silmarillion' and Homers 'The Odyssey' and every Greek/Roman/Viking myth book I could get my hands on. Pretty heavy reading for a 12 year old. -- Conan Stevens
  • I'm going to be doing solo stuff. The idea is to do 'small' and 'off my beaten path,' or go back to an old, beaten path - do some smaller things that I haven't done in 15 or 20 years. Just to sort of get my feet wet, because I haven't done my own material for a couple of years - I've been doing a lot of other things. -- Patty Griffin
  • Europe as a whole is increasingly jesttisoning the old path of the Christian fathers. -- David Wilkerson
  • My heart needs only one thing. It needs to be guided Along the age-old path Of life-blossoming self-awareness. -- Sri Chinmoy
  • Where else," I will say, "does an old turtle crossing the path Make all the difference in the world~? -- Patricia MacLachlan
  • There's an old Celtic proverb that I follow: See much, study much, suffer much is the path to wisdom. -- Greg Jackson
  • blackmail. The age-old path to the land of milk and honey. The one sure way of being paid for doing nothing. -- Ursula Curtiss
  • The Internet is going to change marketing before it changes almost anything else, and old marketing will die in its path. -- Seth
  • Our old experiences, memories and fears guide us down the present path. It's not so much that you are the artist; you are the conduit. -- Nick Bantock
  • The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells. -- Robert Macfarlane
  • Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers. -- Alberto Manguel
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