Eugene J. Martin Quotes

Defensive thinkers best defend themselves from knowing who they are.

Eugene J. Martin

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• We've endured too many tragedies. And each time I learn the news I react not as a President, but as anybody else would - as a parent.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • President
  • Parent

• One cannot come closer to the gods than by bringing health to his Fellow Man.

  

  Socrates
  • Health
  • Gods
  • Bringing

• I am so hip even my errors are correct

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • American
  • Errors
  • African

• We must learn two things. One is to see ourselves as others see us. We apply one yardstick when we wish to appraise other people. Secondly, we cannot succeed in anything if we act in fear of other people's opinions.

  

  C. Rajagopalachari
  • Fear
  • Succeed
  • Opinions

• I can see the advantage because this gives you a clear direction of where to go.

  

  Bob Myers
  • Advantage
  • Direction

• I knelt by the design. Yes, there was the sun rising. But the white form I had always thought to be a cloud was a bear. I could see it now, upside down. White bear, isbjorn, stood for north. Father had not been able to help himself. The truth was there, too. Truth and lie, side by side.

  

  Edith Pattou
  • Truth
  • Help
  • Design

• Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.

  

  Isaac Stern
  • Music
  • Hall
  • Enhances

• I come from the performance world, but the idea of a worship song is different. It's useful music.

  

  John Tesh
  • World
  • Music
  • Performance

• I was a 200-pound defensive back on Saturday, but after the season, I was performing 'Lysistrata' or 'Fences.'

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Back
  • Season
  • Saturday

• Our advanced and fashionable thinkers are, naturally, out on a wide swing of the pendulum, away from the previous swing of the pendulum.... They seem to have an un-argue-out-able position, as is the manner of sophists, but this is no guarantee that they are right.

  

  Anthony Standen
  • Right
  • Thinkers
  • Pendulum

• We all have expectations but sometimes the greatest thing is to be surprised with what happens and to find out that it is quite different from the way you imagined it, i try to, pardon the expression, stay with my feet on the ground.

  

  Alex Zanardi
  • Expectations
  • Surprised
  • Imagined

• Defensive thinkers best defend themselves from knowing who they are.

  

  Eugene J. Martin
  • Thinkers
  • Defensive