Gerry Schwartz Quotes

I want to grow. I don't want to get stuck doing the same thing over and over and think I'm the best at it.

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• I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Girl
  • Always
  • Made

• Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Attitude
  • Excellence
  • Skill

• Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • Past
  • Bible
  • Face

• The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • Believe
  • Truth

• I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Legacy
  • Sport
  • Creatively

• A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• In spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims are very happy and they thrive in this country.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Country
  • American
  • Happy

• Running for me is a sport. It's not a joke. It's serious.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Me
  • Running
  • Serious

• I don't feel restricted by the language: I feel more free.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Free
  • Language
  • Feel

• It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Woman
  • Catholic
  • Mathematics

• Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.

  

  Vanessa Redgrave
  • You
  • Find
  • Questions

• We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Need
  • Pleasure
  • Animals

• I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Music
  • Like
  • Rock

• The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Theater
  • Profession
  • Esteem

• I love to see new things, and I love to learn. I always learn so much when I travel - that's the best thing.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Love
  • Best
  • Travel

• I've never set out to teach anyone anything. It's been more of an expression of my views and feelings than sitting down and deciding 'What is today's message?' And I do think that, although I never, again, sat down consciously and thought about this, I do think judging, even for my own daughter, that children respond to that than to 'thought for the day.'

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Children
  • Today
  • Daughter

• I think often, and never without a certain fear of Nessim's love for Justine. - It coloured his unhappiness with a kind of ecstasy - Yet one touch of humour would have saved him from such dreadful comprehensive suffering.

  

  Lawrence Durrell
  • Fear
  • Suffering

• What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?

  

  Louis Sullivan
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Education

• Where there is a mind, there are feelings such as pain, pleasure, and joy. No sentient being wants pain: all wants happiness instead.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Pain
  • Joy

• We in Illinois are very fortunate to have a number of historic structures that have added immeasurably to the cultural life of the state, to the tourism industry of the state which by the way is our number one industry.

  

  James R. Thompson
  • Life

• So it goes.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut

• When I became a standup comic, my hero, one of them, was Richard Pryor, and you know, I think that comedians, like, comedians talk about hacks, and what a hack is, is someone who does stuff that's not original.

  

  Artie Lange
  • Hero
  • Comic
  • Comedians

• I want to grow. I don't want to get stuck doing the same thing over and over and think I'm the best at it.

  

  Gerry Schwartz
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Change