William Feather Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
-
Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.
-
Sometimes you just wonder whether people just don't have the sensitivity or decency. I'm a member of the media myself: I host a talk show. I know sometimes when you want to ask something, you can circumvent it with words and vocabulary. You don't suddenly just go out there and ask something directly in the pretense of being absolutely candid.
-
I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.
-
I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.
-
I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
-
She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
-
I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
-
When I was a kid, I never thought about anything. Never had to think about where I was going to school or what I was going to do. I just lived minute to minute.
-
When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
-
If anything, game development is even more of a team effort than making a movie, so for individuals to get credit for making a game is absolutely insane.
-
The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology.
-
We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.
-
I hope to stay light on my feet, to work in many modes, to seek inspiration always, and avoid the fatal. But, as we all know, it is the price of life to burn out, both metaphorically and literally.
-
Cricketers have a very short shelf life. On an average, you make money through cricket for five years, but you need to survive for sixty years.
-
If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do.
-
I was never really a comic-book fanatic.
-
Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust.
-
Most of us are not pure self-starters; most people need role models, they need coaches, they need exemplars, they maybe need some discipline or some rewards. We need to be motivated.
-
But the 3% who have taken the time and exercised the discipline to decide on a destination and to chart a course sail straight and far across the deep oceans of life, reaching one port after another and accomplishing more in just a few years than the rest accomplish in a lifetime.
-
The whole question of imagination in science is often misunderstood by people in other disciplines. ... They overlook the fact that whatever we are allowed to imagine in science must be consistent with everything else we know.
-
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
-
I don't argue with people... if they say I'm not funny, they're right, for them.
-
Control from without flourishes when discipline from within grows weak.
