Evan Esar Quotes

The most uncommon form of intelligence is common sense.

Evan Esar

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• Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Men
  • Changes

• Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Country
  • Soul

• Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.

  

  Varley O'Connor
  • Life
  • Great
  • Past

• The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • More
  • Self
  • Execution

• We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Two
  • Snow
  • London

• For the future world-trading regime to mirror economic reality and to allow the use of modern business strategies, we need a single overarching multilateral framework for trade. We can have either a flat world or a patchwork of crisscrossing mountain ranges and tunnels.

  

  Victor Fung
  • World
  • Business
  • Future

• I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Enjoy
  • My Life
  • Financially

• Working with Mario Testino was a joy. He's very young spirited, and it's always lovely and a pleasure to spend time talking to him about all different things.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Time
  • Different
  • Joy

• The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro, like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Life
  • Action
  • Star

• Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind. Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And it can be taught very easily.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • People
  • Mind
  • Meditation

• What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • Say
  • Wrong
  • View

• The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.

  

  Xenophon
  • True
  • Moments
  • Leader

• This is what he has been selling on the 'The Apprentice', through his self-help books, how to - you know, 'Trump 101' or the 'Art of the Deal' or, really, back to 'Art of the Deal'. So almost the more he gets away with, the more he is reinforcing his brand.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Art
  • Help
  • Know

• I would not give my first 15 years to my worst enemy.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Enemy
  • First
  • Worst

• I started to realize that comedy is what I really wanted to do, but I didn't want to do stand-up.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Up
  • Want
  • Comedy

• It doesn't need to be a No 1 show, it just needs to be good.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Good
  • Need
  • Show

• I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Age

• If people just want to be famous, that's just not enough to get you up at 4 in the morning to go to work. You have to love what you're doing.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Work
  • Famous

• Common sense to one person might be something different to another.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Different
  • Common Sense

• Since the tragedies, the Department of Homeland Security was established to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, and most importantly, to share intelligence information among government agencies and departments.

  

  Randy Forbes
  • Government
  • Intelligence

• If woman alone had suffered under these mistaken traditions [of women's subordination], if she could have borne the evil by herself, it would have been less pitiful, but her brother man, in the laws he created and ignorantly worshipped, has suffered with her. He has lost her highest help; he has crippled the intelligence he needed; he has belittled the very source of his own being and dwarfed the image of his Maker.

  

  Clara Barton
  • Women
  • She
  • Help

• You need to agree with your boss about what you need to get done that week, what are the metrics of success. Sometimes you need more hours, sometimes you need fewer hours.

  

  Robert Pozen
  • Done
  • Success
  • Boss

• We are hungry for more; if we do not consciously pursue the More, we create less for ourselves and make it more difficult to experience More in life.

  

  Judith Wright
  • Experience
  • Create
  • Hungry

• The most uncommon form of intelligence is common sense.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Intelligence
  • Common Sense