John Whiting Quotes

We have a company in Rochester, it doesn't matter what's going on around the world; it stays constant and that's Mayo.

John Whiting

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• It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Great
  • Waiting
  • Luck

• Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Man
  • Know
  • Capable

• Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Growing

• A cat is never vulgar.

  

  Carl Van Vechten
  • Never
  • Cat
  • Vulgar

• Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Art
  • Business
  • Career

• The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • People
  • Up
  • Giving

• I'm into my grime, hip-hop, dance, and house music.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Music
  • House
  • Dance

• People don't understand that the feel of the surface is so important for a footballer. The ball travels on the surface; our feet move on the surface - all of that goes into how the game is actually played.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Important
  • Game

• I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Children
  • Sharp
  • Stairs

• Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Amazing
  • Ability
  • Turn

• I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Me
  • Exercise
  • Discipline

• If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Growing
  • Car
  • Size

• I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Kids
  • Know
  • Old

• For me, it's important that I can talk to my customers all over the world. They can comment on what they like, tell me what fits - we have a daily dialogue. I can also see what she looks like and how she wears my shoes, which is a huge advantage. Thank God for Instagram; it helps me keep connected.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • World
  • God
  • Important

• Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • School
  • Experience
  • Bad

• It was a difficult second record. I had moments where I couldn't write; had moments where I was writing lots. It was just a massive learning process for me.

  

  Flume
  • Writing
  • Learning
  • Moments

• I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Take
  • Four
  • Nap

• I don't regard myself as a cracking good climber. I'm just strong in the back. I have a lot of enthusiasm, and I'm good on ice.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Good
  • Strong
  • Myself

• I'm often saddened and dismayed to see myself portrayed as either a Luddite or as a raving technophile. I've always thought that my job was to be as anthropologically neutral about emerging technologies as possible.

  

  William Gibson
  • Technology
  • Emerging
  • Saddened

• To me, a lady is not frilly, flouncy, flippant, frivolous and fluff-brained, but she is gentle, she is gracious, she is godly and she is giving. You and I have the gift of femininity... the more womanly we are, the more manly men will be and the more God is glorified. Be women, be only women, be real women in obedience to God.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • God
  • Giving
  • Gift

• It didn’t matter who was more right. What mattered is that we listened to each other

  

  William Craig Zwick
  • Matter

• If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

  

  Milton Friedman
  • Political
  • Government
  • Desert

• We have a company in Rochester, it doesn't matter what's going on around the world; it stays constant and that's Mayo.

  

  John Whiting
  • Matter
  • Company
  • Constant