William H. Whyte Quotes
We have been the most prodigal of people with land, and for years we wasted it with impunity. There was so much of it, and no matter how we fouled it, there was always more over the next hill, or so it seemed.
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I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.
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You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
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It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
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My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life.
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I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.
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English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.
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You have this enormous network and no one knows what's out there.
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For a long time, the for-profit world has told us in the not-for-profit sector to behave more like businesses.
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I hadn't ever felt any particular calling to be a novelist, and I clearly remember telling a friend of mine about six months before I started work on 'Elsewhere' that I would never write a novel.
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We've gotten tremendous support. Everybody now understands how critical it is to help small businesses get out of this recession and into recovery.
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Let your customers be your partners; let your vendors be your employees. What's necessary in this transformation more than anything else is courage and a willingness to change.
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I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.
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That's the kind of stuff you are offered today. Scripts that have you mixed up with young men. I find them utterly revolting. Of course WE never had to do nude scenes. I'm glad, too, because I'm susceptible to pneumonia.
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Responsibility and accountability is a big part of being in the military.
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Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.
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When you have real power you don't threaten. People know what your capabilities are.
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My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'
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If we empower ourselves with responsibility over our actions, responsibility over our destinies and responsibility for directing and maintaining and creating our own ethical and moral frameworks, which is the most important thing really isn’t it because perhaps the greatest insult to humanism is this idea that mankind needs a god in order to have a moral framework.
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We have been the most prodigal of people with land, and for years we wasted it with impunity. There was so much of it, and no matter how we fouled it, there was always more over the next hill, or so it seemed.
