Alexander Meiklejohn Quotes
There is, I think, nothing in the world more futile than the attempt to find out how a task should be done when one has not yet decided what the task is.Alexander Meiklejohn
Quotes to Explore
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
Warren Weaver -
Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
Kate McKinnon -
I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
Sam Smith -
I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
Rainbow Rowell -
If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.
Landon Donovan -
I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
Wayne Dyer
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
Faye Dunaway -
Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
Dale Carnegie -
I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
Ferdinand Marcos -
There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov -
The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People are saddened when this happens but not surprised.
S. J. Rozan -
I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
Natalia Tena
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
M. H. Abrams -
Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.
Patricia Hill Collins -
I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
Maluma -
In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
Orville Redenbacher -
My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
Victoria Pendleton -
I have a stack of those plastic card hotel room keys that I picked up on this latest book tour. It's about a yard tall. Ah yes, a stack of lonely nights.
Billy Collins
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Building robot versions of people is very expensive.
Colin Angle -
So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;Evil,be thou my good.
John Milton -
It is preposterous that the current members of the United States Senate and all of their predecessors for more than 200 years haven't been able to read the Constitution and do what it says.
John Jay Hooker -
What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.
Abbe Pierre -
There is, I think, nothing in the world more futile than the attempt to find out how a task should be done when one has not yet decided what the task is.
Alexander Meiklejohn