Sidney Hook Quotes
Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.
Quotes to Explore
-
No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
-
When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that shot trying not to get angry. A shot of a dog singing I Will Survive on its own will not get a laugh.
-
American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
-
In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
-
I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
-
For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.
-
There are people who are born deaf and grow up deaf who don't speak at all, and some of them have told me that they resent a little bit that I do speak. But, you know, I have to be myself. I have to do what I'm comfortable doing.
-
What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.
-
My wife and I volunteer for the Guide Dog Foundation, and we have two giant labs.
-
I'm a pretty cliche actor in that I hate watching myself on film.
-
The Anger Management Tour was another beautiful thing. I loved that tour.
-
Fighting forces, particularly ground forces, have to operate on the basis of unit cohesion.
-
I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page.
-
I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.
-
Education is very important to me.
-
If Assad continues to conduct strikes against the Free Syrian Army at will, it would be very difficult for them to have any success against ISIS.
-
But clearly at the same time you've got to get out there and connect with voters and actually respond to the needs, the frustrations, whatever problems their now saying are not being adequately solved.
-
The job of the novel is to be true to the confusion, but not so confusing that you turn the reader off.
-
It's important to set challenges that you're not sure you're equal to.
-
A lesson learned at the muzzle has the virtue of never being forgotten.
-
(On his proposal to overcome the ethnically polarized election results with a National Unity government in 1982, which the Opposition declined): 'Fiji was too small to squander its limited pool of talent. Worse still, this division created an atmosphere of frustration that could fester and poison relations.'
-
If one asks for success and prepares for failure, one will get the situation one has prepared for.
-
Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.
