Nelson Shanks (John Nelson Shanks) Quotes

If you find yourself with a weakness, attack it... don't develop a technique that avoids your weaknesses.

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• Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Power
  • Simple

• This is a coup for commissioner Bud Selig. I'm surprised it's as good as it is.

  

  Fay Vincent
  • Good
  • Surprised
  • Coup

• My philosophy is always to hire the best from the best.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Best
  • Always
  • Philosophy

• As a general rule, moderate levels of arousal facilitate deployment of skills, whereas high arousal disrupts it. This is especially true of complex activities requiring intricate organization of behavior.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • True
  • High
  • Organization

• It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Difficult
  • Loves
  • Unjust

• I view Al Jazeera as a very serious journalistic outfit. They have proven to observers around the world that they are serious and objective. They will have to, at a P.R. level, prove to the American public that that is the case. And I think that over time they will succeed at doing that.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Time
  • World
  • American

• Von has a lot of game. He is an aggressive player, but sometimes it is good to have a wild horse out there who can push guys and challenge people.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • People
  • Good
  • Game

• We have seen that in certain respects operant reinforcement resembles the natural selection of evolutionary theory. Just as genetic characteristics which arise as mutations are selected or discarded by their consequences, so novel forms of behavior are selected or discarded through reinforcement.

  

  B. F. Skinner

• We learn to love our sweat, we discover our passion to move and connect it to effort, we discover both the animal in us and the power of our imagination

  

  Ohad Naharin
  • Power
  • Passion
  • Imagination

• My line of vision was such that the creature filled the moon like a fossil. It had gone there, I thought, to live and die, for there, of all places, was its small definition made whole and eternal

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Live
  • Small
  • Die

• The librarians know the secrets, not the historians

  

  Dee Brown
  • Book
  • Secret
  • Library

• We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Direct
  • Tension
  • Creators

• Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Duty
  • Laws
  • Obey

• If enough individuals are full of despair and anger in their hearts, there will be violence in the streets. If enough individuals are full of greed and fear in their hearts, there will be racism and oppression in society. You can't remove the external social symptoms without treating the corresponding internal personal diseases...Pope Francis draws our attention to the 'invisible thread' of the market, which he describes as 'the mentality of profit at any price, with no concern for social exclusion or the destruction of nature.' This mentality generates inequality, which in turn generates 'a violence which no police, military, or intelligence resources can control'...changed individuals cross racial, religious, ethnic, class or political boundaries to build friendships. These friendship work like sutures, healing wounds in the social fabric. They 'humanize the other,' making it harder for groups to stereotype or scapegoat. They create little zones where the beloved community is manifest...They help people envision the common good--a situation where all are safe, free, and able to thrive. As my friend Shane Claiborne says, our problem isn't that rich people don't care about poor people; it's that all too often, rich people don't know any poor people. Knowing one another makes interpersonal change and reconciliation possible.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Society
  • Violence
  • Racism

• Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Sky
  • Drink
  • Shoulder

• The attack on untouchability is an attack on this high-and low-ness.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Attack
  • Low-ness

• Divisionism is a complex system of harmony, an aesthetic rather than a technique.

  

  Paul Signac
  • Harmony
  • System
  • Technique

• If you find yourself with a weakness, attack it... don't develop a technique that avoids your weaknesses.

  

  Nelson Shanks
  • Weakness
  • Technique
  • Attack