Michael Steinhardt Quotes

The balance between confidence and humility is best learned through extensive experience and mistakes.

Michael Steinhardt

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• Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90 insurance companies sell and service flood service insurance. There are more than four million policies covering the total of $800 billion.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Today
  • Service
  • Insurance

• I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Good
  • Different
  • Long

• A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Genius
  • Himself

• 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.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Business
  • American

• If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Character
  • You
  • Weird

• There's nothing I really believe about 50 Cent.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Believe
  • Nothing
  • Really

• I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • People
  • Money
  • Spiritual

• Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.

  

  Adam McKay
  • World
  • Movie
  • Sense

• The true doctrine is that labor - systematic, effective, congenial labor - is not only a necessity, but is the source of the highest enjoyment.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • True
  • Labor
  • Source

• By resisting almost any change aimed at improving our public schools, teachers' unions have become a ripe target for reformers across the ideological spectrum.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Change
  • Target
  • Unions

• All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Life
  • Day
  • Best

• My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Beginning
  • Never
  • Strange

• I really do think that getting the golden ticket for 'American Idol,' it's just the start of something really great.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Great
  • American
  • Start

• Since I began my practice of Forgiveness Therapy, it's now instinctual for me to choose to eat like I love myself - instead of eating like I wanted to punish myself. Plus I've not only lost weight, I've lost the anger and anxiety I was feeling, and so I feel happier and calmer within.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Feeling
  • Like
  • Anxiety

• Women are just so much tougher and more patient than men are - their capacity for empathy blows me away. And their capacity to deal with stress for long periods of time is also kind of awe inspiring.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• If Christ came back tomorrow, He'd have to change planes in Frankfurt. Modern air travel means less time spent in transit. That time is now spent in transit lounges.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Time
  • Air
  • Travel

• Neuere Poeten tun viel Wasser in die Tinte.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Die

• Man, the two-fold creature, apprehends The two-fold manner, in and outwardly, And nothing in the world comes single to him. A mere itself, - cup, column, or candlestick, All patterns of what shall be in the Mount; The whole temporal show related royally, And build up to eterne significance Through the open arms of God.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Up
  • World
  • God

• I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • World
  • Death

• My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Reading
  • Myself
  • Facts

• You could say I'm a mod, but with a small 'm'; I don't wear a parka, but I do question what I wear and what I listen to, which is what it's all about.

  

  Martin Freeman
  • Small
  • Question

• Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Mind
  • Health
  • Soul And Body

• You always hear about delegation, but people make the mistake of delegating and not following up. I give authority, but I stay in touch. Otherwise it doesn't work.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• The balance between confidence and humility is best learned through extensive experience and mistakes.

  

  Michael Steinhardt
  • Mistake
  • Balance