Anthony Weston Quotes

Note that an informed source need not fit our general stereotype of an “authority”—and a person who fits our stereotype of an authority may not even be an informed source.

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• I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.

  

  Oleg Deripaska
  • Time
  • Good
  • Different

• To make headway, improve your head.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Make
  • Head
  • Improve

• There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Same
  • Sunset
  • Sunrise

• We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Humanity
  • Learn
  • Understand

• My grandparents on my father's side came to this country from the Caribbean with a strong connection to Africa and no shame about it.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Country
  • Father
  • Strong

• I love the Bible. I read it every day. I spend 10 hours a week studying it. It has affected my life in profound ways. I am inspired when I read it.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Life
  • Day
  • Inspired

• I used to pay attention to the clouds in the sky.. .I paid close attention for a month to see if they ever repeated. They don't repeat. And I don't think life does either. It's continually various. That's the truth about life.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Attention

• Meeting the person you are going to be playing is very unique.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Unique
  • Persons
  • Meetings

• If we go to free agency without a CBA, I would say very few teams are going to be in play and be active. If you do have a CBA, there are going to be a lot of teams out there competing for players.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Free
  • Team
  • Rule

• Most companies don't die because they are wrong; they die because they don't commit themselves. They fritter away their momentum and their valuable resources while attempting to make a decision. The greatest danger is standing still.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Die
  • Decision
  • Resources

• Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

  

  Leon Uris
  • Time
  • World
  • Friends

• Millennials aren't looking for a hipper Christianity.

  

  Rachel Grace Held
  • Christianity
  • Millennials

• With the red hair, you get the white skin; it's a package deal. The cons are that you never look particularly attractive on the beach. The pros are in a softly lit room, you look pretty.

  

  Marcia Cross
  • Pretty
  • Hair
  • Red

• Everybody in mathematics had given up for 100 years or 200 years the idea that you could from pictures, from looking at pictures, find new ideas. That was the case long ago in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, in later periods, but then mathematicians had become very abstract.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Up
  • Long
  • Age

• I did not understand the differences between Catholic and Protestant until I was an adult.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Catholic
  • Differences
  • Adults

• I find it hard to argue with Reagan's old slogan: Trust, but verify.

  

  David Hoffman
  • Trust
  • Hard
  • Arguing

• I thought one only had to speak Latin through one's nose and bite off the end.

  

  Charlotte Mary Yonge
  • Latin

• Making art for me is not fun in the sense of la, la, la, la, but it's something that I find very absorbing and very satisfying.

  

  Nell Irvin Painter
  • Satisfying
  • Absorbing

• It makes you feel really comfortable when someone is like, I'm not going to touch what you're doing. Do what you do and I'll put it out, but as opposed to sticking it out in Dublin and in one shop in London, it's going to go all over the world and you'll have the backing of a PR team and whatever else you need. It was like, cool, that sounds like the right move.

  

  Adam Faulkner
  • World
  • Team
  • Sound

• Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Real
  • Money
  • Problem

• For me, that was a hard scene [in "Fences"] to do twenty-something times, which (laughing), I counted. That was difficult, but once I did it, I felt like I could do anything.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Difficult
  • Laughing
  • Scene

• Note that an informed source need not fit our general stereotype of an “authority”—and a person who fits our stereotype of an authority may not even be an informed source.

  

  Anthony Weston
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