Terry Teachout Quotes

I'm especially interested in what I call practitioner criticism, which is when people who practice an art form start writing about it on blogs. I think that's an immensely important development. I want to see much, much more of that. People who make music who are verbally articulate. And not all musicians are verbally articulate. But those who are should be encouraged to write about what they do and their perception of what other people do. It makes the discourse smarter.

Terry Teachout

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• I need to feel as if everything is clean and in its proper place before I can even attempt to write one word. At least, that's what I tell myself. I make the bed, I put away the dishes, maybe I dust, maybe I do the laundry, maybe I go to the post office.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Myself
  • Feel
  • One Word

• Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • People
  • Religion
  • Fight

• The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Soul
  • Solitude
  • Thoughtful

• Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Style
  • Decision

• I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Important
  • Why
  • Better

• I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Dream
  • Dreams
  • Stage

• I exercise every morning. I do light weights - 5lb and 10lb arm exercises - and then lie and lift my arms and legs. It's all about keeping core strength. I do a lot of stretching too.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Light
  • Morning
  • Exercise

• Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Power
  • Party
  • Office

• Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

  

  Saadi
  • Difficult
  • Easy
  • Patience

• I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• When we make progress and get better at something, it is inherently motivating. In order for people to make progress, they have to get feedback and information on how they're doing.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Progress
  • Feedback

• I'm definitely neurotic. I don't cross streets and stuff.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Streets
  • Cross
  • Neurotic

• Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.

  

  Rand Paul
  • School
  • Help
  • Child

• I went up a straight crooked lane and, I said 'No thanks, yes if yer please.

  

  Jack Finney
  • Up
  • Said
  • Thanks

• I was really a shy kid.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Really
  • Kid
  • Shy

• I have to say that after chemotherapy, Barbara Boxer just isn't that scary anymore.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Scary

• Ricky: You are the strangest man alive.

  

  Karl Pilkington

• When you first arrive in India, you think, 'God, these Indians treat their servants so badly! How awful!' It's something in the air, and something about the way people are, that very few people hold out. I wasn't able to. Everybody goes local. You stop saying 'thank you' and things like that.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • People
  • God
  • Stop

• It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.

  

  Philip Sidney
  • Great

• The only thing which can tell us about the novel is the novel.

  

  Edwin Muir
  • Novel

• I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Up
  • Work
  • Business

• This knowledge, the knowledge that the physical well-being of the citizen is an important foundation for the vigor and vitality of all the activities of the nation, is as old as Western civilization itself.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Important
  • Knowledge

• I'm especially interested in what I call practitioner criticism, which is when people who practice an art form start writing about it on blogs. I think that's an immensely important development. I want to see much, much more of that. People who make music who are verbally articulate. And not all musicians are verbally articulate. But those who are should be encouraged to write about what they do and their perception of what other people do. It makes the discourse smarter.

  

  Terry Teachout
  • Important
  • Criticism
  • Perception