T. S. Eliot Quotes
An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.T. S. Eliot
Quotes to Explore
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Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.
Warren Bennis -
We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
Gary Lineker -
Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
J. G. Ballard -
It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.
Rachel Johnson -
I've only twice in my life come across someone with both high IQ and high EQ naturally; and that was because their parents were super high EQ, and the parents just EQ'd the hell out of them. They're inevitably very successful because now you've got someone who's sharper than the average person and well-rounded, too.
Walter O'Brien -
For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
Barry Eichengreen
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
Nancy Pelosi -
There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
Jack Youngblood -
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Samuel Johnson -
I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.
Randy Jackson Breakfast Club -
Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.
Rahm Emanuel -
As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
Natasha Lyonne
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
Landon Donovan -
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
Edsger Dijkstra -
I myself feel that I'm a well-rounded player and got a lot better defensively and without the puck as time has gone on.
Patrick Kane -
I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
Wayne Brady -
To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
Rand Paul -
Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
Yehuda Berg
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When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.
Kate Moss -
The young people I teach now know they are being sold down the river before we even start studying the trends and numbers. That's the toughest part of being a high school economics teacher... being a witness when our children realize that the greatest deficit of all is a deficit of leadership.
Kurt Bills -
There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.
Jose Ortega y Gasset -
If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you've got. Just don't plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.
Seth Godin -
Tom Kenny is awesome.
Ethan Slater -
An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.
T. S. Eliot