Elliot W. Eisner Quotes

The kinds of nets we know how to weave determine the kinds of nets we cast. These nets, in turn, determine the kinds of fish we catch.

Elliot W. Eisner

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• I like to catch fish and release them. I probably haven't killed a fish that I've caught in sport fishing for 20 years. No reason to kill it. You know, just take it and release it.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Know
  • Fishing
  • Fish

• Never be a food snob. Learn from everyone you meet - the fish guy at your market, the lady at the local diner, farmers, cheese makers. Ask questions, try everything and eat up!

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Food

• If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd vote for another blowout.

  

  Carl Safina
  • Vote
  • Fishing
  • Fish

• I've always wanted to be able to hold my breath for like, ever, and swim in the water like a fish.

  

  Carlos Pena, Jr.
  • Water
  • Always
  • Fish

• Pretty much I love all types of fish; I pretty much stick with that. I love vegetables. I don't eat too much carbs, but I love salads, though. I'll usually have a salad, except for breakfast.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Pretty
  • Eat
  • Much

• Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.

  

  Ovid
  • You
  • Will
  • Pool

• Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Live
  • Remember
  • Fish

• The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Place
  • Golf
  • Fish

• I only eat fish - no chicken, no turkey, just fish. I get all my protein from fish and egg whites.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Fish
  • Chicken
  • Egg

• I'm a very, very healthy eater. I eat lots of fish, lots of vegetables, lots of fruit. I don't eat junk food.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Food
  • Fruit
  • Fish

• As a teenage fisherman, I watched and followed terns to find fish. Later, I studied terns for my Ph.D.

  

  Carl Safina
  • Find
  • Fish
  • Later

• Every unwanted animal ends up on my farm: alpacas and horses and dogs and cats and chickens and ducks and parrots and fish and guinea pigs.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Animal
  • Fish

• I don't love eating meat. I really only like chicken and fish.

  

  Iman
  • Love
  • Eating
  • Fish

• We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Determine
  • Theology

• We do not determine right or wrong based on what everybody else is doing.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Right
  • Wrong
  • Determine

• . . . your history is no less important to your survival than your ability to breathe. In the end, you can only determine whether to saturate your memories with pain or with perspective. Forgetting is not an option. I tell you the truth now: Pain was not God's plan for this life. It is a reality, but it is not a part of the plan.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Life
  • God
  • Important

• The quality of your thinking determines the quality of your life.

  

  A. R. Bernard
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Quality

• Love is a net that catches hearts like a fish.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Love Is
  • Hearts
  • Fish

• Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him!

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Art
  • Hold
  • Catch

• In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. This is a helpful pointer for our everyday presence-practice. Can you catch yourself angrily defending your point of view or attacking the other person's? There's the ego.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Ego
  • Anger
  • Point Of View

• I've had a lot of voices tell me what I should be making. Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn't allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.

  

  Zendaya
  • Live
  • Me
  • Die

• We fought hard for socialism in a devastating war of independence and reunification. To build an affluent and prosperous society, we chose the path of a socialist market economy. We have achieved strong economic growth, and yet the sense of solidarity in our society has not been lost. This is very important to people.

  

  Nguyen Minh Triet
  • Independence
  • Economic growth
  • Reunification

• The intolerance of the Middle, and even later, Ages, is a fact all too familiar to every one.

  

  Ethan A. Hitchcock
  • Middle
  • Intolerance
  • Ages

• The kinds of nets we know how to weave determine the kinds of nets we cast. These nets, in turn, determine the kinds of fish we catch.

  

  Elliot W. Eisner
  • Determine
  • Fish
  • Catch