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

• I am a fox", the fox said.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Fox

• Your first crush is allowed to be on a doofus." "Mine won't be. I'll choose a handsome gypsy boy who'll break my heart, or a soft girl with a diamond in her belly button.

  

  Brigid Lowry
  • Diamond
  • Break My Heart
  • Gypsy boy

• Keep in mind that television, magazines, movies, and even newspapers rarely show images of average-shaped bodies.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Mind
  • Average
  • Magazines

• If there's any guy crazy enough to attack me, I'm going to show him the end of the world -- close up. I'm going to let him see the kingdom come with his own eyes. I'm going to send him straight to the southern hemisphere and let the ashes of death rain all over him and the kangaroos and the wallabies.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Death
  • Attack
  • Kingdom

• Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of, while the visible and dense matter remains as it was.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Values
  • Remains
  • Ghost

• There’s something else that bears repeating here: Unleashing creativity requires that we loosen the controls, accept risk, trust our colleagues, work to clear the path for them, and pay attention to anything that creates fear.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Creativity
  • Controls
  • Pay Attention

• Academics are, on average, pussies.

  

  David Buss
  • Average
  • Academics