David Buss Quotes

Academics are, on average, pussies.

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• For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Friends

• The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • World
  • Important
  • Experience

• What's going to be funny is when they think Mom and Dad are a little bit cool, because right now, we're not cool Mom and Dad.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Thinking
  • Funny
  • Dad

• One would hope that you would have a CBO director who does not let ideology get in the way of making good estimates, [Congress] values having a credible institution that they can rely on to give them the best estimates possible.

  

  Alice Rivlin
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Director

• He had known so much about her once -what she thought, how she felt, the reasons for her actions. And now he only knew that he loved her, and all the other knowledge seemed passing from him just as he needed it most.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • She
  • Knowledge

• And I spilled gravy on my Carolina sweater, because I am alive.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Sweater
  • Carolina

• Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.

  

  E. B. White
  • Writing

• Humor comes from self-confidence.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Reality
  • Confidence
  • Self

• It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising or by sheer assumption, have the power to do as they think best without consulting the wisdom of mankind.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Money
  • Power
  • Growing

• Don't let any opportunity lead you away from serving God. That's a price that's too high to pay.

  

  George Foreman
  • Opportunity
  • Pay
  • Serving

• Make some time to daydream every day!

  

  Katrina Mayer
  • Time
  • Make
  • Daydream

• The average person works at fifty percent or less of their potential. Your job is to unleash that extra fifty percent.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Job
  • Opportunity
  • Average

• The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Different
  • Man
  • Struggle

• I was never happy as a child, so it wasn't something I took for granted.i did'nt grow up as an average, american child. An average child grows up with an expectation of being happy.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Happy
  • Child
  • Average

• As for me, my literary theory, like my politics, is based chiefly upon one main idea, to wit, the idea of freedom. I am, in brief, a libertarian of the most extreme variety, and know of no human right that is one-tenth as valuable as the simple right to utter what seems (at the moment) to be the truth

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Truth
  • Freedom
  • Simple

• It does not matter who you are, or how smart you are, or what title you have, or how many of you there are, and certainly not how many papers your side has published, if your prediction is wrong then your hypothesis is wrong. Period.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Smart
  • Paper

• Academics are, on average, pussies.

  

  David Buss
  • Average
  • Academics