Joseph Wood Krutch Quotes

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

Joseph Wood Krutch

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• One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Great
  • Know
  • Mom

• Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Home
  • Fear
  • Action

• I have to remind myself when I'm on a job and I'm feeling a lull in attitude or confidence or whatever, I'm there for a reason. I have to constantly remind myself of these almost corny Pinterest mantras, like 'You are worthy.'

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Job
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• I've walked away in the middle of a conversation and had no idea that was wrong until someone told me I was being rude.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • Idea
  • Wrong
  • Conversation

• When the gun lobby fights gun-control legislation, its logic is clear: it does not like laws that prevent people from owning or using guns.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Control
  • Gun

• Everybody wants to be a star right now, to be heard, to have a voice, so you have to give the confidence for people to have that ability - and give them the wardrobe to become a star.

  

  Zac Posen
  • People
  • Star
  • Confidence

• The first album I started out, I just did everything completely alone. I think it has to do with confidence. The more confidence you develop in your own sound, the more you can open up and alchemize that with other people, just set it free, and not feel challenged by that.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Up
  • Free

• All anything takes, really, is confidence.

  

  Rachel Ward
  • Confidence
  • Really
  • Anything

• I am running for my Senate district in 2014 and looking forward hopefully to earning the confidence of my community once again and being reelected for that seat.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Community
  • Running
  • Confidence

• I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up.

  

  Karel Capek
  • Up
  • You
  • Know

• The monitors indicated that it was a credible election, I think, in an overall sense, it apparently is a free and fair election, so it's a real milestone and one of the things we can take some little confidence in.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Real
  • Free
  • Confidence

• I'm approaching 70. Unfortunately, from the wrong direction.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Wrong
  • Direction

• I often find it's just the confidence that makes you sexy, not what your body looks like. It's how you feel about yourself that makes you sexy.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Confidence
  • Yourself
  • Sexy

• Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Money
  • Wrong
  • Stock

• But while our economy may be weakened and our confidence shaken; though we are living through difficult and uncertain times, tonight I want every American to know this: We will rebuild, we will recover, and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before.

  

  Barack Obama
  • May
  • American
  • America

• Logic always seems to be telling us, in language quite unnecessarily technical, what we understood much better before it was explained.

  

  Arthur Balfour
  • Logic

• Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

  

  Logic
  • Taken
  • Logic
  • Whiskey

• The Germans always had difficulties with their identity. Either it was too much and too loud, or it was hidden and too subservient. The French always had a healthy self-confidence. When they spoke of a 'grande nation' it was not dangerous. De Gaulle could say on Martinique: 'Behind me is the ocean. In front of me is France'.

  

  Anselm Kiefer
  • Confidence
  • Identity
  • Ocean

• We must go beyond the constant clamor of ego, beyond the tools of logic and reason, to the still, calm place within us: the realm of the soul.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Soul
  • Ego
  • Calm

• The trend now is to shoot in Canada because it's cheaper, and they don't care what the location is.

  

  Steve Buscemi
  • Canada
  • Location
  • Cheaper

• Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.

  

  Yvonne Craig
  • Imagination
  • Scary
  • Own

• Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow.

  

  Herb Ritts
  • Mountain
  • Shadow
  • Natural

• Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

  

  Joseph Wood Krutch
  • Confidence
  • Wrong
  • Logic