David Buss Quotes

There can be no autonomous agent with unitary interests called 'society' that exerts causal influence. This is a logical impossibility

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• The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Lie
  • Measure
  • Tape

• My work was entirely nonfiction.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Work
  • Nonfiction
  • Entirely

• Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.

  

  Nas
  • Hip Hop
  • Noise
  • Spotlight

• While studying at Barcelona, Ignatius was in doubt whether, after completing his studies, he should enter some Religious Order, or go from place to place, according to his custom. He decided to enter upon the religious life.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Life
  • Religious
  • Doubt

• For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.

  

  Origen
  • God
  • Believe
  • Knowledge

• Writing for TV entails saying every dumb idea that comes into your head to a room of people. And doing so with the confidence that it doesn't make you look like an idiot.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • People
  • Writing
  • Confidence

• I have to get a workout in in the morning. Once my day starts, I'll have the best intentions, and it still won't happen: one of the kids needs to be picked up somewhere, I have to hop on a conference call, or I'm just tired. So I get it done in the A.M.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Up
  • Done
  • Kids

• The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Creative
  • Building
  • Aim

• We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Life
  • Plan
  • Jews

• By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Science
  • Faith
  • Achievement

• We all have different things that make us strong and weak, but if we communicate and we really open ourselves and open our hearts, you're going to be amazed by the things that you can learn.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Different
  • Strong
  • You

• Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Up
  • Business
  • Cutting

• And I see the - you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can't read now. And I know that when they leave those prisons and those detention centers, they're not going to be able to make it in our society.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • Society
  • Know

• No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Love
  • Man
  • Opinion

• People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Different
  • Better

• I like a very sexy silhouette, and I like to feel like when you put something on, you zip yourself into it, and you're secure in there.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Feel
  • Yourself
  • Sexy

• Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Life
  • Work
  • Respect

• I was always singing but didn't plan on pursuing it seriously. When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn - I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point - and that was it.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Good
  • Friends
  • City

• If you really were aware of the Earth in a singular context, putting it into the perspective of the galaxy, for example, then you would see that it is not infallible, that it is just part of a much bigger system that is part of a much bigger system and onward.

  

  Daniel O'Sullivan
  • Earth
  • Perspective
  • Bigger

• I think it's understandable that when questions are raised, people maybe are thinking about them and wondering about them, but I have every confidence that during the course of this campaign, people are going to know who will fight for them, who will be there when they need them, and that's the kind of person I am and that's what I will do, not only in a campaign but as president.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Questions
  • Campaign

• A lot of the questions raised about television's power and influence on events have applied throughout history to every mass-communications medium - most particularly print, because that's the medium we've had the longest.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Power
  • History
  • Influence

• The priesthood holds consummate power. It can protect you from the plague of pornography-and it is a plague-if you are succumbing to its influence. If one is obedient, the priesthood can show how to break a habit and even erase an addiction. Holders of the priesthood have that authority and should employ it to combat evil influences.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Habit
  • Influence
  • Addiction

• There can be no autonomous agent with unitary interests called 'society' that exerts causal influence. This is a logical impossibility

  

  David Buss
  • Influence
  • Interests
  • Impossibility