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
  • Carolina
  • Sweater

• 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

• For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant.

  

  Russell Banks
  • Able
  • Average
  • Dentist

• 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

• Healing is the discovery of the Divinity within.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Healing
  • Discovery
  • Divinity

• Those who are right do not argue. Those who argue are not right.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Right
  • Argue

• The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it is not so easy as the detective novels might lead one to believe, one generally relies on politics and joins the cruelest party.What does it matter, after all, if by humiliating one's mind one succeeds in dominating every one? I discovered in myself sweet dreams of oppression.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Politics

• Academics are, on average, pussies.

  

  David Buss
  • Average
  • Academics