George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.

George Bernard Shaw

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• Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.

  

  Nas
  • You
  • Struggle
  • Appreciate

• My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Bad
  • Son
  • Boy

• The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Want
  • Dream
  • Night

• I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.

  

  Taylor Branch
  • Think
  • Free
  • Less

• Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Relationship

• Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Life
  • Work
  • Independence

• Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Love
  • Person
  • For Her

• New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Why
  • Business
  • Character

• Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We're very different. I wouldn't make that comparison at all, and I don't mean to disrespect Madonna: she's a nice lady, and she's had a fantastic, huge career - biggest pop star of all time.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Time
  • Different
  • Career

• I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Food
  • Feet
  • Stand

• I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Learned
  • Keep
  • Got

• It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.

  

  Patrick Lussier
  • Character
  • Fun
  • Present

• I want to be remembered as the football player I was. The private person is nobody's business.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Business
  • Want
  • Football

• HeyHey is my favourite app. It's like Instagram but for sound recordings, with little soundbites from people's days. We spend far too much time looking down at our phones, so it's nice to have your head up while you listen to what other people have uploaded.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• All of us have a 'voice' inside where all inspired thoughts come from. When I talk to children and aspiring writers, I always ask them to turn off the TV and listen to that voice inside them.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Children
  • Thoughts
  • Inspired

• From Shakespeare to Robi Thakur, everyone has written stories about people and incidents around them. There is no creativity minus reality irrespective of how flowery or abstract you make it.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • People
  • Reality
  • Creativity

• I prize being just a normal dude that wakes up, goes to work, comes home to his wife - like, quite boring.

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Up
  • Work
  • Home

• I want a further step for me...that's my process of development. I don't want to cut it off. I understand where it's been cut off for other people, and I understand the whole process in that order of things, but I see no way in that isn't a trap, that will let me out again without damaging too much, you know?

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • People

• When I'm standing in a stadium packed with 80,000 screaming fans, I can't just whip out my Bible before I run. That's when I start praying! It's so loud that I can't even hear what I'm saying, but it always helps.

  

  Lolo Jones
  • Bible

• As she read, at peace with the world and happy as only a little girl could be with a fine book and a little bowl of candy, and all alone in the house, the leaf shadows shifted and the afternoon passed.

  

  Betty Smith
  • World
  • She
  • Book

• The complete disregard for the camera's presence indicates its complete saturation in their lives. The subject neither notices nor seems to care that someone has been invited into their private moment.

  

  Nan Goldin
  • Moments
  • Care
  • Cameras

• Persons who would never think of announcing boldly to the world, 'I am a scholar,' 'I am a great artist,' 'I am a beautiful woman,' nevertheless seem to think it wholly within the bounds of good taste to announce that they are Christians!

  

  Georgia Harkness
  • Women
  • Artist
  • Christians

• The fear isn't that big data discriminates. We already know that it does. It's that you don't know if you've been discriminated against.

  

  Kate Crawford
  • Fear

• Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • World
  • Progress
  • Depends