Norm Phelps Quotes

It is a feeble compassion that pulls up short where self-interest begins.

Norm Phelps

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• There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Women
  • Business
  • Man

• Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Law

• You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • You
  • Know
  • Person

• I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Think
  • Grace
  • Elegance

• I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel.

  

  Gay Talese
  • People
  • Writing
  • Character

• If longevity is the best index to measure a company, a basic requirement is the ability of the corporation to generate new and new leaders.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Best
  • Company
  • Longevity

• It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.

  

  Gabriele Nanni
  • God
  • Men
  • Power

• The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Good
  • Spiritual
  • Dangerous

• The moment to tell my barber I was gay just never came up.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Up
  • Gay
  • Moment

• I love apple juice.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Love
  • Apple
  • Juice

• We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Power
  • Remember
  • System

• Just because the only way you can maintain control over your bodily passions is to sit straight in your chair, knees together, hands delicately arranged in our lap, fingers tightly intertwined, does not mean that I am required to do the same.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Together
  • Control

• We underestimate the distance between ourselves and others. Not just inferential distance, but distances of temperament and ability, distances of situation and resource, distances of unspoken knowledge and unnoticed skills and luck, distances of interior landscape.

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • Knowledge
  • Distance
  • Luck

• Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it's pretty clear that it's an unsustainable underlying pattern.

  

  Alan Greenspan
  • Pretty

• Fraud is common when you give away billions. Fraud related to Hurricane Katrina spending is estimated to top $2 billion. In addition, debit cards provided to hurricane victims were used to pay for Caribbean vacations, NFL tickets, Dom Perignon champagne, 'Girls Gone Wild' videos, and at least one sex change operation.

  

  Mark Skousen
  • Sex
  • Champagne

• It's just the game itself that drives me. I just want to be able to compete at a high level.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • High
  • Game

• My kids know there's no candy, no soda, until the weekend. Those are the days they get to indulge in their sweets. We're big on organic food. I'm not a diet guy; I don't believe in diets. I just believe in a great meal plan.

  

  Donald Driver
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Kids

• My experience of being on the public platform got more multi-faceted, multi-dimensional, and my place in the public eye, I think, has always been a little more than just what is going on in that time in my life.

  

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Experience

• Somehow, even though you have less time and less money, the thing about making indie films is somehow you have another kind of resource: a human resource, where you can really look to your creative colleagues and actually ask questions that are honest.

  

  Karyn Kusama
  • Time
  • Money

• If you have no shame, and it’s your goal to get people into bed, how much higher could your success rate possibly be?

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Goal
  • Shame
  • Rate

• I grew up in New York, and I have that in me, that be-honest-at-all-costs, don't b.s. me attitude. I say, If you've got something to say about me, say it to my face. And then we'll either talk about it or fight about it.

  

  Tim Robbins
  • Fighting
  • Attitude
  • Honest

• Some people fear that technology will become more engaging than live human interactions. That's silly; technology is already way more interesting than other people.

  

  Scott Adams
  • People
  • Fear
  • Interesting

• It is a feeble compassion that pulls up short where self-interest begins.

  

  Norm Phelps
  • Compassion
  • Pull
  • Self-Interest