William Fleming Quotes

The term "intellect" includes all those powers by which we acquire, retain, and extend our knowledge; as perception, memory, imagination, judgment, and the like.

William Fleming

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• SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Time
  • Practice
  • Moment

• Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Wish
  • Nothing
  • Remarkable

• If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Water
  • Same
  • Beer

• Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Song
  • Nice
  • Lies

• My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.

  

  Patrick White
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Marriage

• The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Fame
  • Prison
  • Tongue

• Our true nationality is mankind.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • True
  • Mankind
  • Our

• Things have changed. Now it's not the outward appearance, it's the inward man that I'm trying to change. And that's the message I bring to the people.

  

  Vanity
  • People
  • Trying
  • Man

• If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Time
  • Mind
  • May

• The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people perceive your show or talk about it.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • People
  • Perception
  • Talk

• On that show, I did country and some rock, too, whatever record I had out at the time, I'd sing that.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Time
  • Country
  • Rock

• Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Nice
  • Rock
  • Waiting

• This little bathtub smells like ass.24.

  

  Ze Frank

• Death's the discarder.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Death

• Religion, virtually without fail, provides the army at war with its blessings, and recruits from among its officials the chaplain, who in military costume counsels and consoles and stiffens the morale of men at war.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Men
  • War
  • Military

• I don’t think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us. I wrote out of the wish to create order out of disorder, the liking of a pattern.

  

  P. D. James
  • Wish

• If I realize that actually there's quantum mechanics happening around us all the time in some macroscopic, interconnected way, then that doesn't change my perception of it, that doesn't change my interaction with it; it just changes how I view my interaction.

  

  Aaron D. O'Connell
  • Time
  • Change
  • Perception

• The first thing I think of when I hear the name of Lucille Ball is a Hollywood legend. I have fond memories of growing up at her house, but she was a different person off the set than she was on the set.

  

  Keith Thibodeaux
  • House
  • Growing
  • Memories

• I've always been intrigued by questions of perception and identity-building, specifically how teens and young adults define themselves within their communities.

  

  Keith Maitland
  • Identity
  • Perception

• The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Time
  • You
  • Greatest

• I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Mind
  • Me
  • Question

• The term "intellect" includes all those powers by which we acquire, retain, and extend our knowledge; as perception, memory, imagination, judgment, and the like.

  

  William Fleming
  • Imagination
  • Memories
  • Perception