Ernst Mayr Quotes
To take an unequivocal stand, it seems to me, is of greater heuristic value and far more likely to stimulate constructive criticism than to evade the issue.Ernst Mayr
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Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.
Kate Voegele -
I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
Dan Rosensweig -
I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.
Fawn Hall -
We don't grow older, we grow riper.
Pablo Picasso -
Don't call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses.
Aaron Hill -
I'm very motivated by the occasional creative payoff that comes when something goes really well, be it a song, a recording or performance. The payoff is enormous - when you get it. Most of the time, though, I'm filled with self-loathing and general frustration at the limitations I have as a musician.
Ian Anderson
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Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that.
Larry Elder -
But love like that doesn’t just disappear, does it? No matter how powerful the hate, there’s always a little love left, underneath.Yes. Horrible, isn’t it?
N. K. Jemisin -
Every time you go away, I always sayThis time it's goodbye, dearLoving you the way I doI take you back, without you I'd die dearKnowing I love you so.
Hal David -
But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news.
Larry Wall -
Prayer ardent opens heaven.
Edward Young -
The consciousness of being betrayed is to the collective consciousness of a sacred group what a certain form of schizophrenia is to the individual…it is a form of madness.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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I find it is a bad habit to look at social media before bed, so I try to read something on paper - not on my phone - before I go to bed.
Katrina Lake -
Money is nothing really worth squabbling about. This is what puts people six feet under. You know, I don't need it.
Burt Shavitz -
I know London very well.
Clemence Poesy -
You never see a French person eating alone.
Pierre Dukan -
I really want to be known for my work. That sounds like such a... cliche, and I've thought about how else I can say it to make it sound less hackneyed. But that's what it comes down to... I know people are interested in these things.
Delroy Lindo -
A journalist who doesn't bring a camera is like a warrior who doesn't carry a sword.
Lucio Tan
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As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection.
Carol Leifer -
Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
Mae West -
Mein Führer! I can walk!
Peter Sellers -
Other people have hang-ups about what's literary or genre or whatever, and that's sort of not my problem. You're supposed to write what you have to write, and you're supposed to keep moving.
Colson Whitehead -
Being a secretary was considered a very good job in those days.
Brenda Blethyn -
To take an unequivocal stand, it seems to me, is of greater heuristic value and far more likely to stimulate constructive criticism than to evade the issue.
Ernst Mayr