Lester Cole Quotes

I am the scroll of the poet behind which samurai swords are being sharpened.

Lester Cole

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• Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Country
  • Community
  • Better

• Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • People
  • Remember
  • I Can

• Technologically, I live in the 17th century; I don't have a computer, I don't have any of that stuff. I don't look at the Internet, although I know people tell me I'm all over it. Somebody told me they Googled me, and they said I was mentioned two million times, some stupid thing... but who cares?

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Live
  • Stupid

• My dad was in the movie 'Moonwalker,' and I knew he could sing really well, but I didn't know he could act. I saw that, and I said, 'Wow. I want to be just like him.'

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Know

• I probably went all the way to junior high school before a school doctor told me that I was 'dyslexic.'

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Believe
  • Nobody
  • Jack

• When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • Never
  • Theory

• I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don't have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop!

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Business
  • Help
  • Write

• Working in a bar was a horrific idea for me.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Me
  • Idea
  • Working

• I had a sense when I took the job that the 1976-77 Trail Blazers could be very good. We had made a lot of positive roster changes, but it wasn't until I had the team in training camp that I realized that this team could be special. Midway through that season, I felt we had a chance to win it all.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Good
  • Job
  • Team

• Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Goal
  • Leadership
  • Common

• It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Fun
  • Better
  • Yourself

• That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • True
  • Poetry
  • Principle

• I'm predisposed to never be in pure celebration mode.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Never
  • Celebration
  • Pure

• Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Value
  • Listening
  • Doing

• I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.

  

  John Madden
  • Teacher

• Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Rock

• We put forth proposals. They are still on the table, ... They have yet properly to be considered by the other side.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Conversation
  • Proposals

• It is moments like these that force us to try harder, and dig deeper, and to discover gifts we never knew we had - to find the greatness that lies within each of us.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Trying
  • Moments
  • Lies

• Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it's global. He puts his colossal foot on the vulnerable necks of poor people, and as a result of that, we don't have a balanced conversation.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • People
  • World
  • Poor

• Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Growing
  • Made
  • Poet

• He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.

  

  Plato
  • Action
  • Athlete
  • Savage

• Thus does good fortune follow on the steps of the reckless.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Fortune
  • Steps
  • Reckless

• I am the scroll of the poet behind which samurai swords are being sharpened.

  

  Lester Cole
  • Poet
  • Sword
  • Samurai