William Hazlitt Quotes
The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.
William Hazlitt
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I live in such a sweet world in the world of 'Home Improvement' that I tend to be drawn to stuff that's really on the other end of the spectrum entirely.
Patricia Richardson
I see myself as an arbiter of taste.
Vera Wang
I consider myself a D.I.Y. home improvement guy. In a prior life, I completely gutted a house - redid the plumbing, wiring, moved sewage pipes, knocked down walls, everything.
Gary Locke
Now, being one who lived in the era of Obama, there are so many markers of improvement made. It's hard to be mindful of that, in the same way you're going, 'Oh everything's cool now!' and it isn't. But I try to be mindful of how much of an improvement there has been because that gives hope. You need hope. I need hope!
Mahershala Ali
There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.
E. M. Forster
There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this there's certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.
J. C. Chandor
Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement - they have only tried to be men and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men.
Florence Nightingale
Usually, so far as improvement in the people's economic conditions is concerned, humanitarians simply play the role of the busybody.
Vilfredo Pareto
Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary. Improvement is not compulsory; it's voluntary. But to survive, we must learn.
W. Edwards Deming
I have wedded the cause of human improvement, staked on it my fortune, my reputation and my life.
Frances Wright
In most cases the favorable price performance will be accompanied by a well-defined improvement in the average earnings, in the dividend, and in the balance-sheet position. Thus in the long run the market test and the ordinary business test of a successful equity commitment tend to be largely identical.
Benjamin Graham
Really, who's the best at what they do? There's always room for improvement.
Lindsay Pearce
We must be willing to be completely ordinary people, which means accepting ourselves as we are without trying to become greater, purer, more spiritual, more insightful. If we can accept our imperfections as they are, quite ordinarily, then we can use them as part of the path. But if we try to get rid of our imperfections, then they will be enemies, obstacles on the road to our ‘self-improvement’.
Chogyam Trungpa
The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.
William Wordsworth
There's something about being a parent that has, I think, made me a better comedian.
Jim Gaffigan
The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.
William Hazlitt
