Donald Freed Quotes

In politics, victory is never total.

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• To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Single
  • Prayer

• We can power our economy without despoiling our wild places.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Power
  • Without
  • WIld

• I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the absolute bottom.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Happy
  • Better
  • Angry

• Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Control
  • Choices
  • Wise

• I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Thought
  • Name

• Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Work
  • Important
  • May

• In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Independent
  • Environmental

• The epic story of the West is the development in the 19th century of a mass prosperity the world had never seen and its near-disappearance in one nation after another in the 20th.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • World
  • Story
  • Development

• I don't know anything about music.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Music
  • Know
  • Anything

• One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Marriage
  • Public
  • Get

• Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.

  

  Eason Jordan
  • People
  • Information
  • Sin

• It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • You
  • Two

• I'm admittedly not that into the Internet.

  

  Kate Spade
  • Internet
  • Admittedly

• My guilty pleasure is reality TV, as I am really nosey.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Reality
  • TV
  • Nosey

• The maximum expression of running dogs is the Iditarod. You enter a state of primitive exaltation, and you never return. You're never normal again.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • You
  • Running
  • Expression

• I enjoy music that is commercial. I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different situations, you have to always consider that. Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music, and you always have to keep that in mind. It's not so much financial as making sure it gets the shot and is heard on the radio.

  

  Babyface
  • Music
  • Different
  • Mind

• Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Women
  • Energy

• Danny DeVito later told me that he knew he wanted me for 'Matilda' the second I walked in the door. I'm not sure if this is true, or if he was just being nice, but I was thrilled when I got it.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • True
  • Nice
  • Thrilled

• If we overcome the pull and "get up and get at it," we will have won a victory. We have kept our own resolve. We can then move to other things, for by small means great things are accomplished. Thus, even this one small step is also in another sense a giant leap.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Mean
  • Moving
  • Overcoming

• The rise of the Net and the Web represents a victory for the counterculture and the subculture. The next generation, raised on the Net as their primary medium, won't even know what consensus reality is.

  

  R. U. Sirius
  • Reality
  • Victory
  • Next

• Peace and quiet are preferred. Victory should not be praised.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Peace
  • Victory
  • Praised

• It is no secret that any talented player must in his soul be an artist, and what could be dearer to his heart and soul than the victory of the subtle forces of reason over crude material strength! Probably everyone has his own reason for liking the King`s Gambit, but my love for it can be seen in precisely those terms.

  

  David Bronstein
  • Soul
  • Player
  • Artist

• Tedium is the lack of a mithology. To whom has no beliefs, even doubt is impossible, even skepticism has no strength to suspect.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Doubt

• In politics, victory is never total.

  

  Donald Freed
  • Victory