George Bernard Shaw Quotes

The wheels are turning, but the hamsters are all dead. Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot.

George Bernard Shaw

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• I like to discover new things.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • Like
  • New
  • New Things

• Fostering the leadership necessary for transformational outcomes in education is hard work, and in countries around the world, there is a constant search for easier solutions.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • World
  • Work
  • Education

• I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Afraid
  • Anything
  • On-screen

• I lived on nothing for years - squatted where I lived and where I worked, stole electricity, made things from stuff I found in skips, used paper that had been discarded - you do everything you can do to keep going and not have to get a job.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Job
  • Electricity
  • Keep Going

• I think the physical comedy in action sequences is fantastic. Like, '21 Jump Street' did a great job with that.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Great
  • Job
  • Action

• Having a dream, living that dream, losing that dream, dreaming again and then having that dream come true again is one of the greatest feelings ever because I'm stronger.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • True
  • Dream
  • Feelings

• In principle, I think the idea of rewarding a good effort is interesting, but movies are generally different from each other as are performances and the conditions on how the performances are given and how they're edited and so forth.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Good
  • Different
  • Interesting

• Action is the real measure of intelligence.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Real
  • Action
  • Intelligence

• Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • War
  • Give
  • Nobody

• I want to meet everybody on 'Disney Channel' and 'Disney XD' that are alive.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Want
  • Alive
  • Disney

• I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Strong
  • Reading
  • Christmas

• My opinion on who's wrong or who's right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people who are against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • People
  • Together
  • Opinion

• The reason I was angry all the time was that Gloria Steinem and all those people, without reading my work, were saying all these horrible things against me.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• If somebody takes masses of non-registered immigrants from the Middle East into a country, this also means importing terrorism, criminalism, anti-Semitism, and homophobia.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Country
  • Terrorism

• The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Truth
  • Listening
  • Murmuring

• Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.

  

  Walter Kerr
  • People
  • World
  • Clever

• I'm a little goofy sometimes; I can get a little wacky.

  

  Tamala Jones
  • Sometimes
  • I Can
  • Goofy

• The United States will remain the most powerful nation on Earth for the next 10, 15 years, but the context in which she holds her power has now radically altered.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • She
  • Power
  • Earth

• To begin with, our knowledge grows in spots. The spots may be large or small, but the knowledge ever grows all over... What you first gain from them is probably a small amount of new information, a few new definitions, or distinctions, or points of view. But while these special ideas are being added, the rest of your knowledge stands still, and only gradually will you 'line up' your previous opinions with the novelties I am trying to instil, and modify to some slight degree their mass.

  

  William James
  • Mind
  • Trying
  • Special

• As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Dead
  • Ghost
  • Civil

• Don't let it bring you down. It's only castles burning, find someone who's turning, and you will come around.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Someone
  • Bring
  • Burning

• When I am gone, I do not want men to say Look at his piles of wealth, his cities, his palaces and fine clothes.” Genghis paused for a moment. “Instead I want them to say Make sure he is truly dead. He is a vicious old man and he conquered half the world.

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Wealth
  • Dead
  • Cities

• The wheels are turning, but the hamsters are all dead. Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Dead
  • Turning
  • Wheels