Sherman Alexie Quotes

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

Sherman Alexie

• Imagination
• Violence
• Profound
• Prove
• Resorts

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.

  

  Walter Martin
  • Context
  • Prophet
  • Biblical

• The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power.

  

  Major Owens
  • People
  • Country
  • Power

• I am sure that the Ukrainian nation deserves a better life. That is why I have voted for good changes and for stability.

  

  Viktor Yanukovych
  • Life
  • Good
  • Why

• Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Time
  • Age
  • Taken

• The beautiful thing is that ageism just doesn't exist on 'EastEnders.' The show saved me.

  

  Barbara Windsor
  • Beautiful
  • Me
  • Show

• There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.

  

  Laura Miller
  • Done
  • City
  • Doors

• Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Way
  • Respect
  • Leadership

• American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Country
  • American
  • Problems

• If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Time
  • Mind
  • May

• History develops, art stands still.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Art
  • History
  • Still

• I write... for laymen and scientists, because the reader who is interested in any activity which needs thought and judgement is... a person to whom science can be made to speak, It is not he who is deaf, but the specialists who have been dumb-the specialists in the arts as well as in the sciences.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Science
  • Dumb

• 'Is that as bad as it sounds?' Floyd asked.'No,' Auger said. 'It’s worse. A lot worse.'

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Bad

• Find someone within the company who is on another team but is at a similar level or role as you to be a friend, a sounding board, and a place to go for candid feedback. Find a mentor within the company who resembles the leader you'd like to grow to be.

  

  Katrina Lake
  • Team
  • Friend
  • Mentor

• I had never really thought of myself as a baby person, but it's just a really profound connection.

  

  Leslie Jamison
  • Baby
  • Connection
  • Profound

• There are beautiful words in the Bible and in our pledges and the Declaration of Independence.

  

  Louis Gossett, Jr.
  • Beautiful
  • Words
  • Bible

• I love my work. It's been good to me.

  

  Carl Kasell
  • Good
  • Work

• Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

  

  Chanakya
  • People
  • Friends
  • Friendships

• If I'm the president, I will call in all the different political opinions to come together and to make one front to the benefit of Mexico.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Different
  • Together
  • Political

• In general, you don't want competitors to understand your business outside of telling people your revenue and profitability numbers.

  

  Dave Goldberg
  • People
  • Business

• There's nothing worse for a mentor than being asked generic questions that anyone could answer. They want to ensure that their time is having an impact on you.

  

  Caroline Ghosn
  • Time
  • Mentor

• The autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, imagination, creativity and language. And out of that came the instruments of culture - religions, justice, trade, the arts, science, technology.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Science
  • Culture
  • Technology

• We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

  

  Judy Garland
  • Dream
  • Reality
  • Imagination

• You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • You
  • Always
  • Talent

• When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Imagination
  • Violence
  • Profound