Geoffrey Elton Quotes

History will help to remedy intellectual faults such as excessive concentration on one line of thought, absence of understanding for other points of view, belief in simple solutions, lack of balance of mind, absence of an imaginative understanding.

Geoffrey Elton

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• Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Balance
  • Fight
  • Self-Esteem

• You gotta eat right, you gotta have healthy habits, you know, and balance out your decadence with a healthy lifestyle during the day.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Day
  • Balance
  • Healthy

• Forever, we all had a real clear understanding of what Parcells' teams looked like and played like: tough as hell and didn't beat themselves.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Real
  • Understanding
  • Forever

• I'm sure that everything you do contributes to the sort of novel that you write. A lot of actors have an understanding of drama and a good ear for dialogue and also the rhythm of speech. Similarly, my 16 years in radio drama has influenced me. You only have 45 minutes, or 7,000 words, to tell a story, so every scene has to have a point.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Good
  • Words
  • Understanding

• Striking a balance between wildlife conservation and wind energy development starts with understanding threats to eagle populations and how our actions, including operating wind farms, are affecting them.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Energy
  • Understanding
  • Balance

• I don't compare shows. It's very simple. I don't live in the past. If there's any secret to my longevity, it's living in the future. And a little bit in the present.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Live
  • Future
  • Past

• The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Heart
  • Understanding
  • Should

• Friends from the press, China needs to learn more about the world, and the world also needs to learn more about China. I hope you will continue to make more efforts and contributions to deepening the mutual understanding between China and the countries of the world.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • World
  • Friends
  • Hope

• To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Understanding
  • Very
  • Totally

• In spite of recent jazzed-up one-day matches, cricket to be fully appreciated demands leisure, some sunny warm days and an understanding of its finer points.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Up
  • Understanding

• Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance they are altogether lighter than vanity.

  

  Vanity
  • Men
  • High
  • Balance

• I've had this TV for 7 years, this is how it works. Power on - it comes on. Simple clicker, volume control - piece of piss. Works every time.... what the fuck's this? What am I doing? JACK!!

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Time
  • Power
  • Control

• I was very shy as a child. Very shy. Lot of problems with very simple things. Like entering a restaurant all by myself.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • Simple

• I make no doubt... that these rules are simple, artless, and natural.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Simple
  • Doubt

• What we do as a society is seek simple answers.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • Society
  • Simple

• We found that our kids enjoy those simple adventures we take as a family. I'm driving, my wife's the copilot and we give one kid a choice of what they want to go do. We eat a lot of bad food and sleep in some interesting hotels.

  

  Mark Consuelos
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Bad

• I think people hire me for the slightly weird angle that I bring. Part of the trick is keeping it sort of simple; you have to give the impression of not that much music playing when there's really a lot.

  

  James Horner
  • People
  • Music
  • Simple

• Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.

  

  Charles Kennedy
  • Up
  • Words
  • Freedom

• A second person that's come to my life very recently, and I'm thankful for it, is Marshall Rosenberg, the founder of the Nonviolent Communication Organization. He has all these books about how we can use our language nonviolently to help create peace. He's using a lot of Buddhism too, but he's helping me to think about language.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Helping

• Avoid patent leather, pink, and crystals.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Pink
  • Leather
  • Patent

• You see bands putting ads in the paper: 'drummer wanted'. I could never be in a set-up like that.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Up
  • Never
  • See

• I say the very things that make the greatest StirAn' the most interestin' things, are things that did n't occur.

  

  Sam Walter Foss

• I think it would be difficult to argue that I'm a net-negative for womankind. I've tried pretty hard to bring in unusual female voices and perspectives. Not just young women and not just white women, either. I don't know that I'm the best target for improvement. I don't know that I'm the problem.

  

  Ariel Levy
  • Women
  • Pretty
  • Improvement

• History will help to remedy intellectual faults such as excessive concentration on one line of thought, absence of understanding for other points of view, belief in simple solutions, lack of balance of mind, absence of an imaginative understanding.

  

  Geoffrey Elton
  • Simple
  • Understanding
  • Balance