Evan Esar Quotes

The lazy man claims he is too heavy for light work and too light for heavy work.

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• My mother has been a wonderful model for the professional woman - a loving mother dedicated to both her family and her work. She inspired me, made me proud, and developed in me an enormous respect for women in general.

  

  H. Robert Horvitz
  • Work
  • Women
  • Family

• The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized through the theoretical work of the late Lord Rayleigh on the blue light of the sky, which he showed to be the result of the scattering of sunlight by the gases of the atmosphere.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Work
  • Light
  • Sky

• To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Past

• My father is best known for his light comedies, and I'm best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Bad
  • Father
  • Light

• Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was not engaged in subversive work; she was an apolitical project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the Reuters news agency.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Work
  • She
  • News

• I don't think balance is something you get from someone else; it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Work
  • Women
  • Progress

• People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the war started, including my parents, said, 'Oh, its temporary.' It lasted 17 years! People tend to underestimate the gravity of these situations. That's how they work.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Work
  • War

• I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know what I was going to do with myself. And then fate reached in and took me in its hands. I was discovered right out of high school and started getting work.

  

  Sally Field
  • Work
  • School
  • High

• My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support.

  

  Taryn Simon
  • Work
  • Political
  • Support

• To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.

  

  Ralph Bunche
  • Up
  • Work
  • Persistence

• When you do good work, people will notice you.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I want to do transformational work to actually fix the world.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • World
  • Work
  • Want

• As intense as our work is, I try my hardest to live my life so that people in my office feel they can work at 'Frontline' and be parents if they choose to. This goes for the men as well.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I always have been trying to work on the other side of Jackie, and that is, making sure that my appearance, that my image, is right; also, working in the job world, knowing how it is to wake up and go to a job.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Up
  • World
  • Work

• Our work is never over.

  

  Kanye West
  • Work
  • Never
  • Over

• When I grew up, I had a lot of fun ski racing with my friends. We pushed each other, and this made it easier to work hard.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • Up
  • Work
  • Friends

• Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant.

  

  Saint Basil
  • May
  • Light
  • Fall

• When you work at 'The Daily Show,' you have to give 100 percent, or you're gone. The competitiveness and the minds that work in those offices are incredible.

  

  Nate Corddry
  • Work
  • You
  • Daily

• If Britain is to have a stable, affordable pension system, people need to work longer, but we will reward their hard work with a decent state pension that will enable them to enjoy quality of life in their retirement.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• We are so proud of our guarantees of freedom in thought and speech and worship, that, unconsciously, we are guilty of one of the greatest errors that ignorance can make - we assume our standard of values is shared by all other humans in the world.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Proud

• When a child has a dream and a parent says, "It's not financially feasible; you can't make a living at that; don't do it," we say to the child, run away from home... You must follow your dream. You will never be joyful if you don't. Your dream may change, but you've got to stay after your dreams. You have to.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Children
  • Home
  • Dream

• Worse than any heathen or pagan abroad are those in our midst who are false to our institutions.

  

  Charles Sumner

• Three precepts are offered to constitute a foundation for the use of laboratory experimental methods in testing hypotheses about the behavior of allocation mechanisms.

  

  Vernon L. Smith

• The lazy man claims he is too heavy for light work and too light for heavy work.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Work
  • Light
  • Lazy