Dave Ramsey Quotes

Most of the things we buy are wants. And we call them needs, but they're wants.

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• Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Knowledge
  • Know
  • Graduation

• I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Think
  • Singer
  • My Own

• On almost every environmental issue I care about, in fact, I've been wrong at one point or another. I used to think that climate change was no big deal, that most environmental problems were massive exaggerations, that oil reserves were effectively unlimited, and more.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Change
  • Care
  • Environmental

• I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Power
  • Learn
  • Realize

• Unwanted honking not only irritates others, but may also end up causing accidents. Drivers lose cool and it may result in road rage.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Up
  • May
  • Cool

• My thing about having another child was, time's-a-wasting!

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Time
  • Child
  • Another

• Kids who evolve into creative adults tend to have a strong moral compass.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Kids
  • Strong
  • Moral

• A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Communication
  • Answer

• Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Laughter

• If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • American
  • Achievement

• People say free trade causes dislocation. In actual fact, it's the lowering of trade barriers that causes the dislocation.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Free
  • Say

• It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Small
  • Limit
  • Surveillance

• Follow a shadow, it still flies you; Seem to fly it, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • She
  • Alone
  • Fly

• In the denial of disorder there is order.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

• Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Single
  • Universe

• For a really long time in my life, I fought against how I look. Because I was raised Catholic in school, where everyone had to wear a suit and tie. I hated everything that stood for. And I realized when I walked down the street, everyone would see the guy I hated and not the guy I was.

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• Pearl Harbor was the defining event in my life. It shaped who I am, and all of my hang-ups and my drives, I think, stem from that.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Life

• When you have a cute outfit on and your makeup looks amazing, the first thing people comment on is your image. When you don't wear makeup, you hear things like, 'Oh wow, you look tired,' or, 'You're so brave for not wearing makeup!'

  

  Colbie Caillat
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Tired

• If a thing is going to represent you, your vision, you should be involved in every aspect of that thing. I like my role as executive producer on anything probably as much as performer.

  

  Jerrod Carmichael
  • Vision

• It's through working with a lot of first-time directors that I realized that people learn on their feet. Everybody works on something for a different reason. Everybody has got something new to learn on these sets, and you don't have to know everything, the second you start.

  

  Jess Weixler
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• I have a wonderful English-language dialogue coach. All the time I have to speak English, he is with me. It is a double effort, because you have to say the words correctly and then act them.

  

  Adriana Barraza
  • Time
  • Words
  • Effort

• Tossed into the Secaucus graveyard are about 25 centuries of classical culture and the standards of style, elegance and grandeur that it gave to the dreams and constructions of Western man. That turns the Jersey wasteland into a pretty classy dump.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
  • Culture
  • Style
  • Dreams

• I have little use for Grieg or my Concerto, this is not only extraordinary piano playing, it is an entirely new way of playing the piano.

  

  Walter Legge
  • Way
  • Piano
  • Concerto

• Most of the things we buy are wants. And we call them needs, but they're wants.

  

  Dave Ramsey