Lincoln Steffens Quotes

One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was awful. Late into the night I would lie awake tossing and wondering what he was going to do to me. Usually he did nothing. A quiet, impressive 'talking to' was all I got.

Lincoln Steffens

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• Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Life
  • Song

• I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • People
  • Feel
  • Alien

• I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Work
  • School
  • High

• I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Way
  • Study
  • Everything

• The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.

  

  Gamaliel Bailey
  • First
  • Worst
  • Cheat

• There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Want
  • Way
  • Person

• I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with a completely new perspective. I love the idea that people will sit in one room for a couple of hours and listen.

  

  Natasha Tsakos
  • People
  • Life
  • Idea

• It takes one person to give you a big chance.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • You
  • Chance
  • Big

• I want to play for my country, play for everybody, and I want to be there. I just feel like I have so many feelings and I want to play in the Olympics and feel how special if I can win that tournament.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Country
  • Play
  • Feelings

• Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Up
  • Lucky
  • Just

• They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• I love to go to casinos with my wife. I play poker, and she's an old-fashioned slot queen. She even has a visor.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Play
  • Wife
  • Queen

• Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Women
  • Equality
  • Priority

• My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Family
  • Together
  • Blues

• I am not trying to make an image; I am an actor trying to sell movies.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Movies
  • Actor
  • Image

• Even as technology becomes increasingly critical to the way we live our lives, power our world and defend our shores, the United States has allowed the production of minerals crucial in the creation of these advanced products to slide.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • World
  • Live
  • Power

• I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.

  

  Katharine Cornell
  • School
  • Friends
  • House

• The bottom line is that there is a lot more that could and should be done to help people with nutrition and exercise.

  

  Parris Glendening
  • People
  • Done
  • Help

• Love in the real world means saying you're sorry 10 times a day.

  

  Kathie Lee Gifford
  • World
  • Real
  • Sorry

• I find that screen kissing wears very thin very quickly.

  

  John Hughes

• I come to you defenses down with the trust of a child.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Children
  • Song
  • Trust

• The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space.

  

  Maxfield Parrish
  • Experience
  • Light
  • Space

• I have a friend who's an artist, and he sometimes takes a view which I don't agree with. He'll hold up a flower and say, "Look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. But then he'll say, "I, as an artist, can see how beautiful a flower is. But you, as a scientist, take it all apart and it becomes dull." I think he's kind of nutty. ... There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Thinking
  • Beautiful
  • Interesting

• One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was awful. Late into the night I would lie awake tossing and wondering what he was going to do to me. Usually he did nothing. A quiet, impressive 'talking to' was all I got.

  

  Lincoln Steffens
  • Experience
  • Father
  • Night