John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
Quotes to Explore
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It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.
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Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.
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It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.
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A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.
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Silence is a source of great strength.
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Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
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I like to be left alone when I'm not working.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality.
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Sports are a great place to show that equality can happen.
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Growing up in Georgia in the southeastern United States, I was always reading and always kept to myself. I never felt isolated, though; I just liked being alone.
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Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!
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There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit.
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Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don't know if there's a need for it. You also have to research your competition.
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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.
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The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no distinction between monumental and decorative art.
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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
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I think everyone should live in New York City if they ever get the chance at least once in their life. It's such a great place to live; there's a different energy about living in the city.
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I knew I wanted to become an actor when I was 7 years old. My dad was working with Alfred Hitchcock, my mom was working with Martin Scorsese - and it was the great summer of my childhood.
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What I really honestly want is just to be working steadily... I would love to just be on a great TV show and have it run for awhile.
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I usually write in my underwear, with a space heater running full blast, and three dogs sleeping at me feet.
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Sports were a way for me to get comfortable with my body. I learned to appreciate everything I could still do.
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And thou my minde aspire to higher things;Grow rich in that which never taketh rust.
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In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
