Peter L. Berger Quotes

In science as in love a concentration on technique is quite likely to lead to impotence.

Peter L. Berger

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• Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Good
  • Business
  • Man

• I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • Work
  • Game
  • Training

• The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Book
  • Bad
  • Down

• Everything begins with an idea.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Idea
  • Everything
  • Begins

• The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Great
  • American
  • Single

• There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Part II' and 'Part III' enough, but I still like the ending of the first one better.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Future
  • Wish
  • Ending

• I don't want to subject myself just to one scheme. I think it's just if you can play, you can play no matter what scheme you play in.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Think
  • Want
  • Myself

• Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Attention
  • Boy
  • Flattery

• Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Sometimes
  • Competitive

• I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Real
  • Want
  • Funny

• When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • People
  • Men
  • Society

• I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I'm sure it's opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I've been pretty effective once I've gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.

  

  Tagg Romney
  • Job
  • Dad
  • Effective

• It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Great
  • Moving
  • Feel

• I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Work
  • Job
  • Father

• You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Money
  • Giving

• I learned that the first technology appeared in the form of stone tools, 2.6 million years ago. First entertainment comes evidence from flutes that are 35,000 years old. And evidence for first design comes 75,000 years old - beads. And you can do the same with your genes and track them back in time.

  

  Zeresenay Alemseged
  • Time
  • Technology
  • Design

• For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Power
  • Learning
  • Myself

• Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Long
  • Grief

• Men met each other with erected look,The steps were higher that they took;Friends to congratulate their friends made haste,And long inveterate foes saluted as they passed.

  

  John Dryden
  • Men
  • Long
  • Friends

• The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Truth
  • History
  • Science

• They were told they shouldn't be supporting the arts, they should be supporting science research.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Science
  • Research
  • Arts

• The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Man
  • Science
  • Value

• Angels possess greater powers than do human beings.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Human
  • Human Beings
  • Angels

• In science as in love a concentration on technique is quite likely to lead to impotence.

  

  Peter L. Berger
  • Science