Barbara W. Tuchman Quotes

To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states.

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• I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Time
  • Death
  • Too Much

• When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Feeling

• I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • Think
  • Evil

• Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Long
  • Focus
  • Decisions

• Sometimes my quotes may be too colorful.

  

  Earl Butz
  • May
  • Sometimes
  • Colorful

• I want to be the defensive player to break the MVP barrier. I want to break barriers. I want to do things when people tell me I can't.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • People
  • Want
  • Me

• A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Think

• We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Control
  • Responsibility
  • Philosophy

• What was really tough for me was that Lars Magnus Ericsson founded Ericsson in 1876; we've always had a consumer product. And I'm the 16th CEO of Ericsson, and I decided that we don't have any consumer products anymore.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Me
  • Tough
  • Products

• I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I'm sure it's opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I've been pretty effective once I've gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.

  

  Tagg Romney
  • Job
  • Dad
  • Effective

• The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Spring
  • Landscape
  • Awakening

• Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it's like, 'Yes, let's do it.'

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Working

• When I'm not surfing or sailing, I am to be found at the harbour working on my boat.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Boat
  • Surfing
  • Sailing

• I used to not like being called a 'woman architect': I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. Guys used to tap me on the head and say, 'You are okay for a girl.' But I see the incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it could be done, so I don't mind that at all.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Women
  • Mind
  • Done

• A lot of people cannot dance because they are inhibited. 'Oh, I can't dance' or 'I have two left feet' or maybe someone has commented on their dancing a while back. When you enjoy something, you might be doing the simplest of moves, but they still look so beautiful.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Dance

• Once you lose that fear, good stuff can happen because you're not in your head about whether it will suck. Once you don't care and accept that it probably will suck, then it probably won't suck.

  

  Ian Gomez
  • Good
  • Fear
  • Care

• If we were to inspect ourselves or members of our family and our friends, we would see that we don't really have to go all the way overseas to be mystified - we can be mystified right at home.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Family
  • Home
  • Friends

• I try to keep myself on an even keel by trying to be as critical of myself as I am of other people. I try to separate my performance from myself.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Performance
  • Separate
  • Critical

• Look, just go sit at the card table with the rest of the kids and let the adults run the country.

  

  James Woods
  • Country
  • Kids
  • Rest

• The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.

  

  Paul Cezanne
  • Single
  • Revolution

• Above the mists on Hatheg-Kla, earth's gods sometimes dance reminiscently; for they know they are safe, and love to come from unknown Kadath in ships of clouds and play in the olden way, as they did when earth was new and men not given to the climbing of inaccessible places.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Dance

• Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown; O grant an honest fame, or grant me none!

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Live
  • Die
  • Unknown

• I can totally identify with the younger kids. I'll never do what Jon Spencer did to me when I was 16, though. I made a tape with my friends and I put it onstage right near his mic stand by the pedal board and he pulled it out with his foot, kicked it to the center of the stage, looked me in the eye and stomped it to pieces.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Kids
  • Friends
  • Me

• To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
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