Gerald May Quotes

Seek the truth, not what is comfortable. Seek the real, not the easy.

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• There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Action
  • Worry
  • Optimism

• The true character of ministry is a servants heart.

  

  Harold Warner
  • Heart
  • Character
  • True

• Toronto Film Festival is one of those festivals where there are 400 movies, and unless you have a distributor who is super confident and puts a lot of money into it, sometimes movies can go unwatched or unnoticed.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Money
  • Sometimes
  • Movies

• Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Different
  • Politics
  • Ethics

• Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Seriously
  • Reflect

• Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Deep
  • Beauty
  • Skin

• I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • People
  • Good
  • Business

• It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • People
  • Family
  • Enjoy

• I love going to my supermarket. Sounds so rock 'n' roll, eh?

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Love
  • Rock
  • Roll

• Woman are complex creatures.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Woman
  • Creatures
  • Complex

• Personality is so important - when you dress somebody for a big party, it is good to feel that the person has an ease and naturalness with what she is wearing.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Good
  • Important
  • She

• When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Failure
  • Advice

• The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Mind
  • True

• The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school in the 1960s may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • School
  • May

• Pretty witty Nell.

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • Pretty
  • Witty

• Theories are only verified hypotheses, verified by more or less numerous facts. Those verified by the most facts are the best, but even then they are never final, never to be absolutely believed.

  

  Claude Bernard

• She does not know where any tale waits before it's told. (No more do I.) But forty thieves sounds good, so forty thieves it is. She prays she has bought another clutch of days. We save our lives in such unlikely ways.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Good
  • She

• As an older lineman, if you start to sit around, you get stiff. You get tired. Things start to set in.

  

  Andrew Whitworth
  • Tired

• At the beginning, my character Cameron is really family-oriented.

  

  Kian Lawley
  • Family
  • Character
  • Beginning

• And not only my own brothers and sisters agreed so but my brothers and sisters in law; and their children, although but young, had the like agreeable natures and affectionate dispositions.

  

  Margaret Cavendish
  • Children
  • Law

• Statistics are just a compilation of people's stories put on paper, and legislation is our attempt to address those real challenges for people.

  

  Pramila Jayapal
  • People
  • Real

• All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.

  

  Alexander Herzen
  • Why
  • Political
  • Violence

• When men and women think, the first step to progress is taken.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Think
  • Progress
  • First Step

• Seek the truth, not what is comfortable. Seek the real, not the easy.

  

  Gerald May
  • Real
  • Truth
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