Stuart Chase Quotes
The best mental effort in the game of business is concentrated on the major problem of securing the consumer's dollar before the other fellow gets it.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.
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Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
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Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.
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People don't understand that the feel of the surface is so important for a footballer. The ball travels on the surface; our feet move on the surface - all of that goes into how the game is actually played.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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Mum is the girliest of them all, but she ended up with me, the tomboy.
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Gujarat is the fourth state in the world where we have a separate climate-change department.
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There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
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Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.
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Retiring is a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do.
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I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.
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If you look over the course of a hundred years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that's held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings.
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We did 356 'Dallas' episodes between 1978 and 1991. The most memorable moment for me happened in 1980 when I got shot at the end of the third series. The rest is a blur.
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They offered me one cover about 10 years ago, and I said, no, I can't do it. I'm happy to cover up now.
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Consumerist ads brainwash us into individualist and egotistic self-love.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.
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We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think.'
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I'm really not interested in showing me or playing me. My gift as an actor, given to me, is to be able to become other people.
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I reach for my briefcase, take out a yellow legal pad and take a pen from my coat pocket. Then I make a list of all the items people think of as being goals: cost-effective purchasing, employing good people, high technology, producing products, producing quality products, selling quality products, capturing market share. I even add some others like communications and customer satisfaction. All of those are essential to running the business successfully. What do they all do? They enable the company to make money. But they are not the goals themselves; they’re just the means of achieving the goal.
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The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.
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I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminato ry "making out" and "sleeping around," we forfeit something we cannot well do without. There is dullness, monotony, sheer boredom in all of life when virginity and purity are no longer protected and prized.
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The best mental effort in the game of business is concentrated on the major problem of securing the consumer's dollar before the other fellow gets it.
