Alfred Polgar Quotes

It would be a miracle, for example, if I dropped a stone and it rose upwards. But is it no miracle that it falls to the ground?

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• I've always wanted to be in journalism. I even started a course at Loughborough doing media studies. I like all sports, and I am keen on writing. But I thought that while I was still young, I ought to make a real go of it at badminton. So I have put all my focus on playing sport instead of writing about it.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Focus

• During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Family
  • Political
  • Me

• Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • People
  • Care
  • Laws

• The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Men
  • Teach
  • Busy

• If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Strong
  • Growth
  • Achieve

• My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Guitar
  • Trees
  • Grandfather

• I love going to my supermarket. Sounds so rock 'n' roll, eh?

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Love
  • Rock
  • Roll

• I am far more distress-avoidant than I am joy-seeking.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Joy
  • Distress

• The pickup points are a natural additional network for delivery. For me, the surprise is that Amazon didn't come up with that idea.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Idea
  • Surprise
  • Delivery

• 'The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires...'

  

  Banksy
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week’s newspapers.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Reading

• Because men complained less, we made the false assumption that the complaints women experienced were only women’s complaints and, therefore, only women’s problems. Which created the rationale for women’s problems to be solved – or at least addressed – by public policy.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Assumption

• : No comment, since this is still hovering (see Larry's reply).Flutter, flutter.

  

  Larry Wall

• Every time he makes plans for his future, he seems to fail. Every time he reaches forward, the world leans against him, pressing him down.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Time
  • World
  • Future

• Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Knowing now what we have learned, unless the need were urgent, I could no more sink the blade of an ax into the tissues of a living tree than I could drive it into the flesh of a fellow human.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Tree

• This is your baby. Go do it.

  

  Condoleezza Rice
  • Baby

• We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we are already tired of. To do the voices, to make it interesting, and not to stop reading to them just because they learn to read to themselves.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Children
  • Interesting
  • Stop

• Aging in Hollywood sucks. There's always so much pressure to look way younger than you are, and everyone's watching! I'd like to embrace getting older, because it's kind of inevitable. The different, wiser me, to be at peace with how I look and I'm supposed to look - it's a work in progress.

  

  Lisa Vidal
  • Work
  • Different
  • Peace

• Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.

  

  Gene Robinson
  • Time

• Great and good men and women stirred sugar into their coffee knowing that it had been picked by slaves. Kind, good ancestors of all of us never questioned hangings, burnings, tortures, inequality, suffering and injustice that today revolt us. If we dare to presume to damn them with our fleeting ideas of morality, then we risk damnation from our descendants for whatever it is that we are doing that future history will judge as intolerable and wicked: eating meat, driving cars, appearing on TV, visiting zoos, who knows?

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Men
  • Car
  • Coffee

• Success happens with a consistent increase in quality in your life

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Life
  • Success
  • Quality

• At 23, you can completely, literally reinvent yourself if you want to.

  

  John Darnielle

• It would be a miracle, for example, if I dropped a stone and it rose upwards. But is it no miracle that it falls to the ground?

  

  Alfred Polgar
  • Fall
  • Ground
  • Stone