Arturo Rosenblueth Quotes

The price of metaphor is eternal vigilance.

Arturo Rosenblueth

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• For some people, cigarette smoke absolutely disgusts them.

  

  Andrew Brown
  • People
  • Cigarette
  • Disgusts

• A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Woman
  • Mistakes
  • Charming

• It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Thinking
  • Mean
  • Romantic

• My parents didn't like me. For bathtub toys they gave me a blender and a transistor radio.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Parents
  • Blender
  • Transistor

• Life is about perspective and how you look at something... ultimately, you have to zoom out.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Life
  • Perspective

• We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Faces
  • Lifetime
  • Dozen

• In that dramatic scene on Calvary's hill three men were crucified.... All three were crucified for the same crime-the crime of extremism. Two were extremists for immorality, and thus fell below their environment. The other, Jesus Christ, was an extremist for love, truth and goodness, and thereby rose above his environment. Perhaps the South, the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Crime
  • Enviroment
  • Extremism

• In our progress towards the goal, we ever see more and more enchanting scenery.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Progress
  • Goal
  • Scenery

• One thing I can tell you is you have to be free. Come together, right now, over me.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Free

• I'm the same guy. I'm trying make sure I focus on what I'm supposed to be focusing on which is playing ball. I'm trying all out. Everything else is just B.S.

  

  Carlos PenaVega Big Time Rush
  • Same
  • Playing
  • Supposed

• I credit my collaborators for allowing me to grow. Without them I wouldn't have that opportunity.

  

  Dave Koz
  • Opportunity
  • Collaborators
  • Allowing

• I can't narrow either one down to just one thing. I've rolled the dice and had both success and failure. I can tell you that right now we're on a roll with the talk show. Everything is good with the TV show.

  

  Wendy Williams
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Right

• Will America be the death of English? I'm glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will.

  

  Edwin Newman
  • America
  • Death
  • English

• One of the frustrations of someone like Thomas Cromwell is that, before they step into the light of history, and become extremely well documented, they are not known. A king might be well documented but not everyone.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Light
  • Might
  • Frustration

• In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Boss
  • Servant
  • Ministers

• I feel as much of a stud as... I can't come up with a metaphor. That's how lacking in studliness I am.

  

  Dan Wakefield
  • Metaphor
  • Studliness

• Peace is a blessing that comes to those who trust in God. It is established through individual righteousness. True personal peace comes about through eternal vigilance and constant righteous efforts.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • God
  • True
  • Peace

• I think life is cotton candy on a rainy day. For those who grew up with cotton candy the old-fashioned way, it is very delicate. Pre-made cotton candy that has preservatives is not nearly as good or true. True cotton candy is sugar, color, and air and it melts very quickly. That was the metaphor - it can't be preserved, it can't be put aside, it can't be banked. It has to be experienced, like life.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Thinking
  • Metaphor
  • Delicate

• The price of metaphor is eternal vigilance.

  

  Arturo Rosenblueth
  • Metaphor
  • Vigilance