Edith Hall Quotes

The method entails deliberating competently about all alternative courses of action which may or may not conduce to achieving your goals, attempting to anticipate the consequences of each course of action, and then choosing and sticking to one.

Edith Hall

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• Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Rich
  • Course
  • Soak

• Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Truth
  • Know
  • Positive

• Any time you challenge a big powerful person or special interest, there's going to be blowback.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Time
  • Powerful
  • Challenge

• Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Work
  • Done
  • Think

• I don't have time to worry about who I admire or who I identify with.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Time
  • Worry
  • Admire

• To be honest, I was born in luxury. I never saw the dearth of money, so money is not something which motivates me.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Money
  • Me
  • Luxury

• The economy is much bigger than the market. We will not be able to build a good economy - nor a good society - unless we look at the vast expanse beyond the market.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Good
  • Society
  • Economy

• The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity affecting the whole body of science, known, it is true, to men of insight, but not generally admitted.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Men
  • True
  • Science

• Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • People
  • Die

• I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • Music
  • Poetry

• We're not really for anything but a better America, a stronger country. And we do support our soldiers.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Country
  • America
  • Support

• It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y'know, I'm not a big golfer myself. But I grew up around the game. My mom and dad kind of built their dream house off the 11th fairway of Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth.

  

  Bill Paxton
  • Up
  • Country
  • Game

• We need to work our level best in this legislative session to help grow Montana's economy, so that grandchildren can stay in Montana, grandchildren can visit their grandmother and grandfather by driving across town, not flying across the country.

  

  Brian Schweitzer
  • Work
  • Country
  • Help

• I didn't long to be a designer. I always liked fashion, but it was always a bit sleeping in me.

  

  Carolina Herrera
  • Long
  • Fashion

• Sept. 11 jolted America out of its second gilded age.

  

  Douglas Wilder
  • America
  • Age

• The wonderful thing about Gilda Radner was that she was not a person who disappointed.

  

  Anne Beatts
  • She

• I'd seen Jose Padilha's 'Elite Squad 1' and '2', and I'd seen his documentary, 'Bus 174'.

  

  Boyd Holbrook
  • Squad

• The smell of a perm is this special kind of Chernobyl-grave soup smell.

  

  Betty Gilpin

• I chose to be a photographer twenty-two years ago, but I don't know that I'd make that choice again. Back in the early eighties, I still thought I was doing okay, trying to order and shape the world with my camera. Now that I know a bit more about living and dying, about our planet and its complex problems, I'm a lot less comfortable with my images of people. Still, I haven't a clue what else to do.

  

  Eugene Richards
  • Problem
  • Choice
  • Camera

• How can you hope to win against goddamn time travelers? It's like playing blackjack when the dealer is God. … Come to think of it, all of life is a blackjack game with God as the dealer, isn't it? So this is no worse.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• Sundance is just a great place for your work to be seen. Not much more to say about it than that.

  

  David Wain
  • Work
  • Great

• The reforms proposed by the Patent Reform Act of 2007 are precisely the type of congressional action needed. The Act will remove obstacles to growth and restore balance to the patent system.

  

  Viet D. Dinh
  • Action
  • Growth
  • Balance

• It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • World
  • Small
  • Action

• The method entails deliberating competently about all alternative courses of action which may or may not conduce to achieving your goals, attempting to anticipate the consequences of each course of action, and then choosing and sticking to one.

  

  Edith Hall
  • Action
  • Choosing
  • Achieving