Jay-Z
Rapper, Businessman
"Don't ever go with the flow. Be the flow."
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Forty
46 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Washington Gladden
Theologian, Minister
"It is better to say, "This one thing I do" than to say, "These forty things I dabble in.""
Elif Safak
Author
"Do not go with the flow. Be the flow."
Madonna Ciccone
Singer
"I was a buffoon and an idiot until the age of forty"
Henry James
Author
"One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant."
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"Forty-one rules aren't so many - St. Benedict had 73 to keep the brethren on the straight and narrow."
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"My forties are the best time I have ever gone through."
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"Happily, at forty-six I still feel as experimental and on the verge of getting at the truth as ever."
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"In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with it."
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