Bernard Crick Quotes
The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
Bernard Crick
Quotes to Explore
-
The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it.
Tao Lin
-
Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
Ugo Betti
-
You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
Karl Kraus
-
I like the idea of the comedy of resilience.
Oscar Isaac
-
I've walked away in the middle of a conversation and had no idea that was wrong until someone told me I was being rude.
Hannah Gadsby
-
It wasn't until I let go of the idea of the brass ring that it showed up, and fortunately for me, it coincided with getting clean.
Samuel L. Jackson
-
I think that the idea of a war on an abstract noun is unacceptable.
Hamza Yusuf
-
The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical science must consist of three things; the series of facts which are the objects of the science, the ideas which represent these facts, and the words by which these ideas are expressed. Like three impressions of the same seal, the word ought to produce the idea, and the idea to be a picture of the fact.
Antoine Lavoisier
-
It's such a risk to write a novel that it's easy to become conservative - you're spending what would be, for me, a couple of years of my life on a single idea. Which is maybe one of the reasons I write stories - if it doesn't work, you've only lost a month.
Ethan Canin
-
In a war the last thing the English know is how to practice fair play.
Adolf Hitler
-
Netflix did it right and focused on all the things that have replaced the dumb, raw numbers of the Nielsen world - they embraced targeted marketing and 'brand' as a virtue higher than ratings.
Kevin Spacey
-
The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
Bernard Crick
