Edward Bernays Quotes

Any person or organization depends ultimately on public approval, and is therefore faced with the problem of engineering the public's consent to a program or goal.

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• Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Free
  • Reading
  • Poetry

• He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Long
  • Sports
  • Win

• There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Good
  • Training
  • Eating

• We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • People
  • Want
  • Underestimate

• When I was born, my parents were huge into skiing. I grew up on Mont Blanc, skiing on that hill. I was really a ski baby. Loved it; I still love it.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Parents
  • Baby
  • Born

• When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

  

  Gary Cole
  • People
  • Up
  • Movie

• I said, I'm on this TV show and I love doing it, but I don't want to be known always as the silly 'Scrubs' guy... So part of me was like, You know what? Life's short. Let's go for it.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Life
  • Guy
  • Like

• My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • Writing
  • Kind
  • Better

• For my characters, it's important to get really specific about what they listen to. Because it affects how they move in the world.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • World
  • Important
  • Listen

• Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • God
  • Remember
  • Prayer

• You simply cannot continue a nation as America without that Christian base of liberty.

  

  Dan Severson
  • America
  • Christian
  • Liberty

• Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • School
  • Money
  • Interesting

• I tend to mean what I say: in life, generally; in recipes, certainly.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Life
  • Mean
  • Recipes

• As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • Good
  • Horse
  • Jump

• I've had some pretty good arguments with people, but I've never regretted it. I've had people come up where it's all emotion and no fact. That's always sad.

  

  Patton Oswalt
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Fame won't make you feel any better about yourself.

  

  Neil Strauss

• Adults spend $500 billion on games and leisure activity each year, and some adults lament that kids get $15 billion for toys.

  

  Brian Sutton-Smith
  • Kids

• Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

  

  Jacques Delille
  • Friends
  • Fate

• I began writing when I was still in the British Foreign Service, and it was then understood that even if you wrote about butterfly collecting, you used another name.

  

  John le Carre
  • Writing
  • Service
  • Butterfly

• [Of Eve Arden]: Eve Arden was another class act to work with. Just classy, classy, and I bought a house in Los Angeles, and everyone said, 'You sold your house to Eve Arden?' I said, 'No!' I sold my 28 pier mortgage to Eve Arden; and she was just a wonderful, woman to work with.

  

  Kaye Ballard
  • Work
  • Mortgage
  • Eve Arden

• It’s time to close the books on infectious diseases, declare the war against pestilence won, and shift national resources to such chronic problems as cancer and heart disease.

  

  William H. Stewart
  • Heart
  • Book
  • War

• I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.

  

  Wilma Rudolph
  • Spirit
  • Determination

• Any person or organization depends ultimately on public approval, and is therefore faced with the problem of engineering the public's consent to a program or goal.

  

  Edward Bernays
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