Gerald Brooks Quotes

Giftedness is your accelerator; wisdom is your brake.

Gerald Brooks

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• I have selective hearing.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Hearing
  • Selective

• All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Work
  • Help
  • Health

• True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • True
  • Man
  • Silence

• My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Why
  • Parents
  • Know

• Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Alone
  • Stars
  • Galaxy

• You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Guy
  • You
  • Crazy

• Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Three
  • Ready
  • Settle

• Love hurts the most when you really love. Sometimes you think you're in love, and then you find out that you're not because you're not really hurting. But when it's real love, then it's gonna hurt. It's supposed to hurt because it's real.

  

  Baby Face Willette
  • Real
  • Love
  • Hurt

• Too often, when you are close to people in power, you're trying to make them happy; you're trying to tell them what they want to hear. But I find that really good leaders don't want that. They want the truth. And you do them a service, and yourself a service, by just being honest and straightforward.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• I always got nervous the nights we played in the World Series. First pitch, I was nervous. Then after that, forget it; I'd start playing.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • World
  • Forget
  • Start

• If you look at history, at the first time hip-hop was invented, there was a Latino right there. How they got erased, I don't know how that all came about.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Time
  • History
  • Look

• I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Love

• Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • World
  • Power
  • Change

• I started to write The Name of the Rose in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Rose
  • March

• I've tried several varieties of sex, all of which I hate. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic; the others give me a stiff neck and/or lockjaw.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Hate
  • Sex

• The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Heart
  • May
  • Soul

• Han dejado de engañarte, no de quererte. Y te parece que han dejado de quererte.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.

  

  James Hillman
  • History
  • Black
  • Depression

• The nice thing about the zodiac as a system is it is quite comprehensive as a range of impulses and psychological states it can speak about.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Nice

• If I don't need the money, I don't work. I'm going to spend time with my family and friends, and I'm going to travel and read and listen to music and try to learn a little bit more about how to be a human being, as opposed to learning how to be somebody else.

  

  James Spader
  • Time
  • Work
  • Music

• When you've lost a baby, everyone around you expects you to be fine once the new baby is born, as though that somehow takes away the pain of losing the first child. I needed to express how wrong that was.

  

  Elizabeth McCracken
  • Lost
  • Pain
  • Baby

• Finally, this book can — and should — be read as a story of growth from knowledge into wisdom, of intellectual and spiritual education.

  

  Bob Buford
  • Book
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom

• Hamm: There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Heart

• Giftedness is your accelerator; wisdom is your brake.

  

  Gerald Brooks
  • Wisdom
  • Brake
  • Giftedness