Famous Quotes & Sayings

Russell Lynes

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect.

William Zinsser

I have no interest in teaching writers how to sell. I want to teach them how to write. If the process is sound, the product will take care of itself, and sales are likely to follow.

William Jennings Bryan

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

William James

Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.

Roger Ascham

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

Robert Scheer

I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency.

Robert M. Hutchins

Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.

Salvador Dali

I was never capable of being an average pupil. I would either seem refractory to any teaching and give the impression of being completely dumb or I would fling myself on my work with a frenzy, a patience, and a willingness to learn that astonished everybody. But to awaken my zeal, it was necessary to offer me something I liked. Once my appetite had been whetted, I became ravenously hungry.

Salman Rushdie

The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching.

Tom Glavine

I think we need to do everything we can to put everyone's mind at ease about players using steroids,

Mike Moran

I think they will ease policy at that time,

John Edward

One does not deceive oneself about the consequences of one's acts; one deceives oneself about the ease with which one can live with those consequences.

John Calvin

First of all, Scripture draws our attention to this, that if we want ease and tranquility in our lives, we should resign ourselves and all that we have to the will of God, and at the same time we should surrender our affections to him as our Conqueror and Overlord.

George Crabbe

Ease leads to habit, as success to ease. He lives by rule who lives himself to please.

John Lancaster Spalding

Friends humor and flatter us, they steal our time, they encourage our love of ease, they make us content with ourselves, they are the foes of our virtue and our glory.

Jim Rohn

Enterprise is better than ease.

Tom Hougaard

They may even ease rates because of Katrina.

Sybil Goldrich

The report put women with implants at ease and lulled them into a sense of security,

James Russell Lowell

The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.

Marty Nemko

As a writer, you have control: You can play around with your own thoughts and when you find those insufficient, draw upon others': their wisdom, their humor, their failings.

Thomas A. Edison

I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.

Hermann Hesse

How could I fail to be a lone wolf, and an uncouth hermit, as I did not share one of its aims nor understand one of its pleasures?

Hans Zimmer

You're going to fail a few times, because that is the only time you actually learn something.

David Mitchell

How lazily "xperts" dismiss what they fail to understand!

Eddie Izzard

Learning that you have stamina is an excellent thing to know. If a project fails, I know I can pick myself up.

Charlie Munger

A business model that relies on trickery is doomed to fail.

Diego Klattenhoff

Everyone fails. Everyone is constantly failing. It is all part of life, and especially this job of being an actor.