Dale Carnegie Quotes

A drop of honey can catch more flies than a gallon of gall.

Dale Carnegie

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• We've been allowed to operate unmolested on the fringes of the music scene, really. That's where we enjoy it most.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Music
  • Enjoy
  • Where

• 'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Grace
  • Shot
  • Even

• At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Reading
  • Crazy
  • View

• Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Family
  • Fathers

• I always say spend more on classics, like a good pair of leather trousers, an amazing tailored jacket, or a classic handbag. Then you can just mix your everyday tops from the high street.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Good
  • High
  • Amazing

• I feel like my competition is everything else that's competing for people's attention, not just other print magazines, newspapers and cable. It's your kid's report card and the games you want to play, all the things that compete for people's time.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Time
  • Attention

• Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage.

  

  Barbara Cook
  • Think
  • Courage
  • Years

• And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Responsibility
  • Problems

• When I was 14, I decided that I really wanted to pursue polo more, so I asked my parents if it would be okay for me to go live on a farm outside the city so I could play.

  

  Nacho Figueras
  • Live
  • Parents
  • City

• I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Darkness

• If boomers were always looking to shock, millennials are eager to share.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Always
  • Looking
  • Shock

• Can anyone seriously contend that whether a 14-year-old boy, who thinks he is a girl, gets to use the girls' bathroom is a civil rights issue comparable to whether African-Americans get the right to vote?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Girl
  • Boy
  • Vote

• The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Different
  • May
  • Found

• I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Truth
  • More
  • Rumors

• I finished my studies in England, I opened my studio in London, and the first one-man exhibit I had on Bond Street, which was opened by the Austrian ambassador.

  

  Felix de Weldon
  • London
  • Street
  • Bond

• When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Nature
  • Tree
  • Bird

• I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Mean
  • Old
  • Masters

• I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Music
  • Think
  • You

• The one complaint about the Internet that I wholeheartedly endorse is that most of these tools have been designed to peck at us like ducks: 'Hey, there's a new reply to your comment! Come look at it!'

  

  Clive Thompson

• An elephant funeral makes me weep every time, and so does an ad with a kid leaving home for college.

  

  Andrew Sean Greer
  • Time
  • Home
  • College

• Resourcefulnes s is the cure to failure. Successful people are resourceful and find a way to make it work.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Failure
  • Cure

• A drop of honey can catch more flies than a gallon of gall.

  

  Dale Carnegie