David Lilienthal Quotes

Centralization at the national capital or within a business undertaking always glorifies the importance of pieces of paper This dims the sense of reality.

David Lilienthal

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• I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Goal
  • Process
  • Obsessed

• I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those so when something happens with the others actors I go with whatever that is I'm getting.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Actors
  • Knowing
  • Position

• 'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Life
  • Music
  • Power

• Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.

  

  Sally Ride
  • American
  • Space
  • Responsibility

• Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Memory

• Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Man
  • Freedom

• Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • America
  • War

• I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap God.'

  

  Fetty Wap
  • God
  • Mother
  • Thought

• It's cool having a little bit of money to do your thing.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Money
  • Cool
  • Little

• If we have white persons in the March, we are certain to have trouble with the Communists, and it may not be viewed as a true expression of the Negro's protest.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • May
  • True
  • Expression

• My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.

  

  T-Pain
  • Bad
  • You
  • Me

• It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • You
  • Know
  • Filmmaking

• But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this: to see what might be, to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Believe
  • Hope
  • Design

• I call this The Dictator Syndrome.  You see suffering or danger, and in your imagination you see a government program eliminating it.  But in the real world the program would operate as you expect only if you were an absolute dictator-having at your disposal all the government's power to compel everyone to do things your way.

  

  Harry Browne
  • World
  • Real
  • Power

• My mother Earth!And thou fresh breaking Day, and you, ye Mountains,Why are ye beautiful? I cannot love ye.And thou, the bright eye of the universe,That openest over all, and unto allArt a delight-thou shin'st not on my heart.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Heart
  • Why
  • Mother

• All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass - 'Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners.'

  

  Archibald Alexander
  • World
  • Jesus

• Reason is lost reasoning.

  

  Antonio Porchia
  • Lost

• Bigger spreads mean bigger gaps between what buyers pay and sellers receive. For example, a spread of 10 cents a share means that the buyer pays $100 more for 1,000 shares than the seller receives.

  

  Alex Berenson

• Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Television
  • Dangerous
  • Disaster

• Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try to test his ideas on reality.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Reality
  • Ideas
  • Prison

• Not going to lie: when I heard that Toni Braxton's sister, Tamar, wanted to have a music career, I was skeptical. I know she sang backup for Toni and is a great reality-TV star, but being a musician is a whole 'nother league. Well, Tamar proved me wrong.

  

  Phoebe Robinson
  • Great
  • Music
  • She

• “If you remember one thing, even above remembering me, remember that there is not a monster dreamt that hasn't walked withing the soul of man.”

  

  C Robert Cargill

• The dream of my family was for me to be an educated person.

  

  Ahmed Zewail
  • Family
  • Dream

• Centralization at the national capital or within a business undertaking always glorifies the importance of pieces of paper This dims the sense of reality.

  

  David Lilienthal
  • Reality
  • Importance
  • Capital