George Robinson Quotes

In the end, trying to be perfect is the unconscious social effort to please ourselves by pleasing these others.

George Robinson

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• It's like driving your car. If you drive too fast on the highway, you will topple, so you better maintain your speed. Life is similar to that, and that's the way you have to control your head.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Life
  • Control
  • Car

• At Camellia Network, we believe if we can create a way of identifying every young person aging out of foster care, defining what they need, and giving a community of supporters a simple and clear way to fulfill those needs, we can produce radically improved outcomes for youth.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Believe
  • Giving
  • Community

• Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Service
  • Intelligent
  • Choice

• We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Death
  • Winning
  • Dying

• When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Politics
  • Accountability

• There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Author
  • Changes
  • Alive

• I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • Work
  • She
  • Movie

• When I saw the first I couldn't believe I was in another great movie that would be made into a trilogy. This movie is quite visible and I think it will stand the test of time. I think kids and parents will love this movie for a long time.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Parents

• 'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.

  

  B. J. Novak
  • Real
  • Comedy
  • Air

• I consider myself British and have very happy memories of the UK. I spent the first 14 years of my life in England and never wanted to leave. When I was in Australia I went back to England a lot.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Memories

• Senator Smoot (Republican, Ut.) Is planning a ban on smut. Oh rooti-ti-toot for Smoot of Ut. And his reverend occiput. Smite, Smoot, smite for Ut., Grit your molars and do your dut., Gird up your l__ns, Smite h_p and th_gh, We'll all be Kansas By and by.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Up
  • Planning
  • Grit

• As feminism made this transition from equal opportunity to unequal opportunism, I made my transition from supporter to critic. But in my inner psyche, there was no transition: I went from supporter of equality to supporter of equality.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Opportunity
  • Equality

• 'My God, oh my God,' he said. 'Six hundred men.'

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • God
  • Men

• My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Help

• I was a journalist, but I was starving. And I've written fiction, but I couldn't get a publisher. So, I was basically a very frustrated creative person working in advertising, and even there, I have a great idea that client won't buy it.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman
  • Great

• Until the world in some way changes, then my responsibility is to share what I know and more importantly to behave like I know about the extraordinary work and effort and blood shed for me to be able to sit here.

  

  Avery Brooks
  • World
  • Work
  • Responsibility

• If you raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires, you'll do nothing to address the debt and the deficit. And the thing you might do is you might finally put this economy over another cliff. These millionaires and billionaires are the folks that try to create jobs and help grow the economy.

  

  Joe Walsh The Eagles
  • Help

• The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Talent
  • Genius
  • Assumption

• Creatures are so governed by the secret counsel of God, that nothing happens but what he has knowingly and willingly decreed.

  

  John Calvin
  • God
  • Creatures
  • Secret Counsel

• If the state cannot be entirely composed of good men, and yet each citizen is expected to do his own business well, and must therefore have virtue, still inasmuch as all the citizens cannot be alike, the virtue of the citizen and of the good man cannot coincide. All must have the virtue of the good citizen - thus, and thus only, can the state be perfect; but they will not have the virtue of a good man, unless we assume that in the good state all the citizens must be good.

  

  Aristotle
  • Business
  • Perfect
  • Virtue

• Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Perfect
  • Happiness
  • Obedience

• My old dance teacher, Jimmy Wilde, a former European ballroom dancing champion, was so sophisticated.

  

  Anton du Beke
  • Dance
  • Teacher
  • Champion

• In the end, trying to be perfect is the unconscious social effort to please ourselves by pleasing these others.

  

  George Robinson
  • Perfect
  • Effort
  • Pleasing