Willa Cather Quotes

Only the stupid and the phlegmatic should teach.

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• When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Teach
  • New
  • Salesman

• When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid then it's easy.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Beautiful
  • Stupid
  • Problems

• One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Past
  • Should

• I don't feel like an idol to anybody. I don't feel anybody should look up to me.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Should

• I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Family
  • Opportunity
  • Lost

• The reason our games generate so much revenue is because we're stupid enough to charge $60 for a box or $50 for a download or something. You need used games because most people can't afford those prices.

  

  Warren Spector
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Box

• You look at the NBA: there's all these young kids that are drafted on potential. They go to bad teams, they're in bad locker rooms, and now we got this analytics stuff that doesn't teach kids how to play. We've got these workout coaches that don't teach kids how to play basketball.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Kids
  • Bad
  • Basketball

• For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.

  

  Quintilian
  • Mind
  • Teach
  • Before

• While liberals are leery of religious fundamentalism in general, they consistently imagine that all religions at their core teach the same thing and teach it equally well. This is one of the many delusions borne of political correctness.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Political
  • Religious
  • Same

• I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Done
  • Experience
  • Learning

• I think stupid people are surprised that I'm Australian. It's a small-minded; we live in a global community, but I suppose some people still are small-minded.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Live
  • Small

• I used to teach improv courses in Amsterdam where we would do team-building exercises, and they can go south very quickly.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Team
  • Teach
  • Where

• 'You're stupid,' is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Stupid
  • Most

• I was very against pink and purple when I was young, because they were girls' colors. But that was only because I didn't want people to write me off for what I can do. When I got into my 20s, I decided that was stupid.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Pink

• With every animal, you have to build its confidence around people because people do some crazy and stupid things.

  

  Ian Dunbar
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Confidence

• I don't really mind not being a part of a film - because if there is no part for me, I will never force myself upon a film. I feel like it's just a distraction. If it is not organically incorporated into the story, it just feels like a stupid appearance, like a sort of wink. I hate that.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Mind
  • Hate
  • Myself

• I think making friends is not being afraid to look stupid, because everyone wants a friend who is willing to be stupid and fun. If you try and be too cool, it only works in high school. After that, being uncool is a very cool thing to do. So just have fun, and don't worry what other people think of you and people will want to be your friends.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • People
  • School
  • Friends

• Bigotry should never be sanctioned, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

  

  Barry O'Farrell
  • Never
  • Should
  • Sanctioned

• Any girl can look glamorous... just stand there and look stupid.

  

  Doris Day
  • Girl
  • Stupid
  • Look

• You are required to believe, to preach, and to teach what the Bible says is true, not what you want the Bible to say is true.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Believe
  • True
  • Bible

• I hate it when people lose it, there's nothing left because they're not interesting, they're boring, I hate it, and especially smack, people on smack are the most boring in the world.

  

  Michael Hutchence INXS
  • People
  • World
  • Interesting

• If we don't have Willie it's going to hurt us. But we have so many guys ready to step up.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Up
  • Hurt
  • Guys

• What it is now is basically, I'll sit on my computer; I basically kind of play the computer as an instrument, I guess you could say. I guess I play the Mac. And how it works is, say - I have a program called 'Ableton Live.' And, you know, you'll open it up, and it's just blank. There's nothing there. And then you start.

  

  Flume
  • Up
  • Live
  • Know

• Only the stupid and the phlegmatic should teach.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Stupid
  • Should
  • Teach