Evan Esar Quotes

Do a little more every day than you are expected to do, and soon you will be expected to do more.

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• The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.

  

  Fay Vincent
  • Money
  • Problem
  • Baseball

• You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Day
  • End
  • End Of The Day

• This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.

  

  Walter Lang
  • May
  • Problem
  • Pride

• My only experience with American things is through movies.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Experience
  • American
  • Movies

• Falling in love is not an act of will. It is not a conscious choice. No matter how open to or eager for it we may be, the experience may still elude us. Contrarily, the experience may capture us at times when we are definitely not seeking it, when it is inconvenient and undesirable.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • May
  • Experience
  • Love Is

• We now have the largest surplus in history, ... As we commit ourselves to finding ways to secure our retirement programs, we also commit ourselves to bringing fairness to the tax code.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • History
  • Retirement
  • Surplus

• When you play in a band, you're in phase with people. When you're a DJ, you're totally off-phase. Your work time is 3 A.M. - 5 A.M. and I don't think you can connect. You're miserable the whole time. Whenever I see a DJ in the airport, they are always on the verge of crying.

  

  Thomas Pablo Croquet Phoenix
  • People
  • Band
  • Connect

• Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Men
  • Reason
  • According

• The central objective in decolonising the African mind is to overthrow the authority which alien traditions exercise over the African. This demands the dismantling of white supremacist beliefs, and the structures which uphold them, in every area of African life. It must be stressed, however, that decolonisation does not mean ignorance of foreign traditions; it simply means denial of their authority and withdrawal of allegiance from them.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Mind
  • Mean
  • Exercise

• One of the dangers in prayer is to try to find words that will be somehow on the level of God. Unfortunately, as none of us are on a level with God, we fall short and waste a great deal of time in trying to find the right words.

  

  Anthony of Sourozh
  • Words
  • Prayer
  • Find

• Talking about painful events doesn’t necessarily establish community – often quite the contrary. Families and organizations may reject members who air the dirty laundry; friends and family can lost patience with people who get stuck in their grief or hurt. This is one reason why trauma victims often withdraw and why their stories become rote narratives, edited into a form least likely to provoke rejection.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Friends
  • Hurt
  • Patience

• Never say no to an idea - you never know how that idea will ignite another idea.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Ideas
  • Ignite

• Living an awakened life... is just a matter of where our attention is being placed. It is possible for our human-beingness and our true nature or presence to exist wonderfully well together, enriching each other through their closeness. It is through the power of our attention that we experience one or the other or both.

  

  Alice Gardner
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Attention

• There's really not much conscious thought involved when I record. I just kind of record what feels good. I'm not trying to make it sound like anything.

  

  Børns
  • Trying
  • Feel
  • Anything

• What makes the Kingdom come is heartfelt compassion: a way of tenderness that knows no frontiers, no labels, no compartmentalizing, and no sectarian divisions.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Compassion
  • Kingdom
  • Divisions

• By that point, I was about 12, 13 years old. I was this young black kid into rock music, which was kind of strange. People would always assume I'd be into like more modern R&B, which is a stereotype, but that was kind of what was expected. And I had all these guitar magazines of all these musicians that didn't look like me. So I assumed Jimmi Hendrix was one of those.

  

  Michael Kiwanuka
  • Music
  • Black
  • Always

• So burrow in. Snuggle deep. A winter idyll of simple splendor awaits.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Simple
  • Winter

• Do a little more every day than you are expected to do, and soon you will be expected to do more.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Expected