Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us, but in what we make out of what they do to us.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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• I ain't just collab-ing with anybody. Because I don't care about making friends. I got enough friends.

  

  Young Thug
  • Friends
  • Care
  • Enough

• The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Great
  • Different
  • America

• Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Remember
  • War
  • Problem

• The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • History
  • Will
  • Happen

• When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • You
  • Film
  • Integrity

• I'm proud of my family, very proud - I have ten grandchildren, four children, and one wife.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Children
  • Family
  • Wife

• You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.

  

  Edith Head
  • Want
  • Water
  • Horse

• The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.

  

  Harry Bertoia
  • Good
  • Design
  • Living

• The best revolutions are unplanned, and the most democratic are leaderless.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Best
  • Most
  • Revolutions

• To eat passionately is to allow the world in.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • World
  • Eat
  • Allow

• I am sometimes accused of being oversensitive about unemployment. I do not believe that that is possible, certainly not for anyone who lived through the 1930s and saw the political consequences of high unemployment throughout Western Europe and what happened in 1939.

  

  Edward Heath
  • Believe
  • High
  • Political

• It was his experience that crises in space fell into two categories: those that killed you immediately, usually without much warning, and those that gave you plenty of time to ruminate on the problem, even if no solution was very likely.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Space

• Anyone can see why an elite athlete would want to leave a small, impoverished country where their skills were effectively uncashed winning lottery tickets. All they had to do was wash ashore almost anywhere else in the world and cash in. Yet the vast majority of Cuban boxers - and Cuban athletes in general - despite that incentive, stayed.

  

  Brin-Jonathan Butler
  • World
  • Country
  • Why

• A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.

  

  Louis Auchincloss

• Growing up, I was always creatively inclined, and when YouTube came about, it was like getting the perfect platform to showcase what I wanted. Personally, I was going through a dark phase in my life, and I decided to make videos and basically go by the adage, 'If you want to cheer up yourself, go cheer up someone else.'

  

  Lilly Singh
  • Life
  • Up
  • Growing

• It's helpful to get feedback on your work, and I think you learn a lot from reading other people's work and giving them feedback.

  

  Gail Honeyman
  • People
  • Work
  • Giving

• Don't forget to celebrate. When I was first coming up, everything was so serious - we were always rushing to get to the next thing - that we didn't take the time to say, 'Man, look what we did just now.'

  

  Maren Morris
  • Up
  • Time
  • Serious

• I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.

  

  Chelsea Clinton
  • People
  • War
  • Lost

• The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.

  

  Andy Stern
  • Job
  • America

• Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.

  

  John Heywood
  • Hand

• Bruce Weber is an amazing photographer, and Carine Roitfeld's style - and everything she does - is gorgeous.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • She
  • Amazing
  • Style

• I've never actually been a fighter myself - fighting tires me out and I'm not an efficient fighter anyway - but I have certainly seen other people have great complicated goes at one another.

  

  Margaret Mahy
  • People
  • Great
  • Fighting

• I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Life
  • Time
  • Way

• Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us, but in what we make out of what they do to us.

  

  Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • Life
  • Environment
  • Make