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clever speeches takes time work
Making clever speeches takes a lot of work and a lot of time. Elaine Stritch
clever men brain
I love hearing details of writers' craft, as cannibals eat the brains of clever men to get cleverer. Antonia Fraser
clever animal men
Man is a rational animal—so at least I have been told. … Aristotle, so far as I know, was the first man to proclaim explicitly that man is a rational animal. His reason for this view was … that some people can do sums. … It is in virtue of the intellect that man is a rational animal. The intellect is shown in various ways, but most emphatically by mastery of arithmetic. The Greek system of numerals was very bad, so that the multiplication table was quite difficult, and complicated calculations could only be made by very clever people. Bertrand Russell
clever dazzling figures frugal happy million paid
We haven't paid 25 million and 10 million and all the dazzling figures you see being banded about for strikers at the moment. We've been very clever and frugal in our dealings. He's not cheap, he's not for nothing, but we're very happy with the deal. Bobby Robson
cleverness clockwork
The queen of crime, Agatha Christie, was always more concerned about the clockwork cleverness of the plot, never the investigator. Christopher Fowler
clever elected fact initially pleased realize tiger
I think in fact the regime, which initially thought they had been very clever in getting him elected ... realize they've got a tiger by the tail. I don't think they're all that pleased about it. Gary Sick
clever research disease
The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure. E. F. Schumacher
clever deal great stupid
To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it George Bernard Shaw
cleverest democracy frankly people recognize rule today true
Today we frankly recognize that democracy can be no more than aspiration, and have rule not so much by the people as by the cleverest people; not an aristocracy of birth, not a plutocracy of wealth, but a true meritocracy of talent. Michael Young
thinking differences laughing
We are the only creatures that both laugh and weep. I think it's because we are the only creatures that see the difference between the way things are and the way they might be. Robert Fulghum
thinking knows ifs
You won't learn if you think you already know everything. Robert Kiyosaki
thinking use emotion
Learn to use your emotions to think, not think with your emotions
thinking important important-things
What do you think about me is not my business the important thing is what I think about myself ...
thinking people world
...Stop blaming me, thinking I'm the problem. If you think I'm the problem, then you have to change me. If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Most people want everyone else in the world to change themselves. Let me tell you, it's easier to change yourself than everyone else.
thinking class people
Rich people acquire assets. The poor and middle class acquire liabilities that they think are assets,
thinking might acquisition
I think the acquisition of consumers might be on the verge of being mapped. The battlefield is going to be retention and lifetime value. Gary Vaynerchuk
thinking long heaven
It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame. Petrarch
thinking want sake
For God's sake, Marks, do you think anyone really wants a glance at those dried-up matchsticks you call legs? Lisa Kleypas
stories
What I really like to do is write 'genre' stories without a cartoonish element. I did the same with 'Da Vinci's Demons,' and I'll do the same with 'Man of Steel.' David S. Goyer
stories fingers written
History is a story written by the finger of God. C. S. Lewis
stories loses
They say a story loses something with each telling. Cecelia Ahern
stories ordinary persons
Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.
stories use world
I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family. Bill Bryson
stories
My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings. Patricia Polacco
stories unicorn happy-endings
A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story William Shakespeare
stories clean devices
All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it. Baz Luhrmann
stories subtle william
William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written. Kim Edwards