John Bates Clark Quotes

Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.

John Bates Clark

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• The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Art
  • Act
  • Possibilities

• I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Women
  • Influence

• The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Family
  • Society
  • Personality

• Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.

  

  Ed Greenwood
  • Great
  • Business
  • Together

• It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Character
  • Pretty
  • Support

• I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Up
  • Think
  • Dad

• Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Me
  • Religion
  • Gay

• I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Color
  • Bold
  • Pink

• It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Countries
  • Unacceptable

• I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquired in the extremities of the earth.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • People
  • Good
  • God

• My retirement is both voluntary and involuntary. One reason, and this is voluntary, is the impact of television. All old movies are turning up on television, and frankly, making pictures doesn't interest me anymore. Another reason is that the film industry is in a declining state.

  

  Randolph Scott
  • Reason
  • Interest
  • Impact

• My wife watches me like a hawk.

  

  Carl Icahn
  • Me
  • Wife
  • Like

• You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Best
  • Always
  • Do Your Best

• I have run with the Olympic Torch during the 2012 summer games in London and the 2014 winter games in Sochi.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Summer
  • Winter
  • London

• Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Up
  • Work
  • Path

• Souffles don't deserve their reputation as potential disasters.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Reputation
  • Potential

• As a model, I am at the mercy of everybody else. It's much more of a situation where I go to work, put the clothes on, get in front of the camera, and then go home. But in that process, I never really have control over any of it.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Work
  • Control
  • Model

• I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • Time
  • Work
  • Mind

• At the end of the day, love and compassion will win.

  

  Terence Hardy
  • Love
  • Win
  • Compassion

• One of the defense mechanisms I have for the difficulties in the business, one of which is rejection, is that if I do the work, I go in, and I'm prepared and I audition and they don't hire me, I'm always just amazed, thinking, 'Wow! For that money, they could've had Bruce McGill, and they didn't take me? I just think that's amazing.'

  

  Bruce McGill
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Money

• Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various members of a given herd can feel alike.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Important

• Vote, v. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Country
  • Power
  • Fool

• Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.

  

  John Bates Clark
  • Experience
  • Knowledge
  • Alone