Samuel E. Morison Quotes
Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis.Samuel E. Morison
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I've fallen victim to worrying about what everybody thinks. It's never going to be that everyone is happy. You just gotta know what you like and go with it.
Kaley Cuoco -
I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
Paloma Picasso -
My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
Vidal Sassoon -
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Immanuel Kant -
As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
Dan Rather -
You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
Gary Cherone Van Halen
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C. S. Lewis -
Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
Xavier Becerra -
I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.
Ian Mckellen -
When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
Warren Christopher -
I hate to travel. I don't go anywhere.
Ingmar Bergman -
I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There's a very clear difference in the quality between the companies that come from YC and the companies that don't.
Patrick Collison
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'Bruce Lee' didn't work, and there were apprehensions about what the fans might say. People might have commented that Charan could have waited for some time before selecting me again. But that's what makes it a real achievement to me. People want to work with me because of the comfort level; nobody would work with you again otherwise.
Rakul Preet Singh -
I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran -
Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.
H. R. McMaster -
The natural sweetness of leeks, with their soft, oniony aroma, makes them the perfect winter comfort food.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
Ira Sachs -
I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
Abel Korzeniowski
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I know a lot of people who read and think: "George [Saunders] is so much fun." There's no denying you're fun to read, but as a writer I think of [George Saunders] as, in fact, not a fun and freewheeling type but really an obsessive control artist.
Zadie Smith -
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.
Bobby Knight -
Every person in the organization must change inside their hearts and minds, so that they themselves become principle centred.
Stephen Covey -
Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis.
Samuel E. Morison