L. Todd Rose Quotes
When you start digging into things like character, though, the notion that people have high character or low character is very strong. What's crazy is that my thinking is not a new insight. The very first large-scale study of character, still one of the largest ever, was done in the early 1900s by Hugh Hartshorne, an ordained minister and a scientist.
Quotes to Explore
-
I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.
-
I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
-
The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
-
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
-
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
-
With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.
-
Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
-
I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
-
Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
-
With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
-
When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.
-
I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.
-
I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.
-
I just sing. You have to use it.
-
I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.
-
Plums are a good substitute for gooseberries.
-
Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.
-
I don't have anyone curbing my instincts, doing anything destructive to my self opinion.
-
Can't trust a fascist-truth is always your first sacrifice to the welfare of the state
-
Leaving your hair down to sleep causes friction on your ends between your body heat and the pillow case. Securing the ends away from your body helps preserve your ends.
-
You can't move mountains by whispering at them.
-
If you would ask me at 15 years old if I would have traded prosthetics for flesh and bone legs, I wouldn't have hesitated for a second. I aspired to that kind of normalcy back then. But if you ask me today, I'm not so sure.
-
When you start digging into things like character, though, the notion that people have high character or low character is very strong. What's crazy is that my thinking is not a new insight. The very first large-scale study of character, still one of the largest ever, was done in the early 1900s by Hugh Hartshorne, an ordained minister and a scientist.
