Arthur Gordon Webster Quotes

It takes courage to care for others, because people who care run the risk of being hurt. It's not easy to let your guard down, open your heart, react with sympathy or compassion or indignation or enthusiasm when usually it's much easier-and sometimes much safer-not to get involved. People who take the risk make a tremendous discovery: The more things you care about, and the more intensely you care, the more alive you are.

Arthur Gordon Webster

• Heart
• Care
• Courage

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• I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.

  

  Lady Starlight
  • Believe
  • Choice
  • Conformity

• When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Best

• Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Technology
  • Engineering

• Elmcrest CC, in Cedar Rapids, is where it all started when I was growing up. The tree-lined course has a very demanding layout that requires you to be accurate off the tee and avoid a number of well-placed water hazards on some of the holes.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Up
  • You
  • Growing

• Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Work
  • Ambition
  • Achievement

• My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Husband

• US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • World
  • Want
  • Blue

• People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Small
  • Ideas

• Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Teach
  • Insight
  • Reveal

• I've enjoyed all the work I've done, and I feel quite lucky that I haven't been playing sweet girls all the time.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Time
  • Work
  • Done

• In Toledo, people grow out. Out to the suburbs. Out to the parts of America where the economy is more vigorous. And all too often, out to 48-inch waistbands.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • America
  • Grow

• True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • People
  • True
  • Guilt

• You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Writing
  • You
  • Saying

• I have yet to meet members of a leadership team who I thought lacked the intelligence or the domain expertise required to be successful. I've met many, however, who failed to foster organizational health. Their companies were riddled with politics, various forms of dysfunction, and general confusion about their direction and mission.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Team
  • Health
  • Politics

• The larger the German body, the smaller the German bathing suit and the louder the German voice issuing German demands and German orders to everybody who doesn't speak German. For this, and several other reasons, Germany is known as 'the land where Israelis learned their manners'.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • German

• Fear not the thunder, little one.It's weather, simply weather;It's friendly giants full of funClapping their hands together.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Together
  • Fear

• I want to bring us together as a nation to recognize the humanity and support the potential of all of our people.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Together
  • Support

• Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

  

  Andre Breton
  • Writing
  • Nature
  • Wise

• If I come up with rules or limitations it focuses me in a direction. And those rules can change if you realize it's a dumb idea. You start to mutate it to see what fits best.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Idea
  • Rules
  • Direction

• I have a great deal of respect and affinity for Tammy Duckworth; she's a seatmate of mine. She's got heart, soul; she's a war hero.

  

  Danny K. Davis
  • Great
  • Heart
  • She

• Damn everything but the circus! ...damn everything that is grim, dull, motionless, unrisking, inward turning, damn everything that won't get into the circle, that won't enjoy. That won't throw it's heart into the tension, surprise, fear and delight of the circus, the round world, the full existence.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • World
  • Heart
  • Fear

• I think pre-nups are brilliant. I get very well taken care of.

  

  Catherine Zeta-Jones
  • Thinking
  • Taken
  • Care

• It takes courage to care for others, because people who care run the risk of being hurt. It's not easy to let your guard down, open your heart, react with sympathy or compassion or indignation or enthusiasm when usually it's much easier-and sometimes much safer-not to get involved. People who take the risk make a tremendous discovery: The more things you care about, and the more intensely you care, the more alive you are.

  

  Arthur Gordon Webster
  • Heart
  • Care
  • Courage