Edward Thorndike Quotes

Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.

Edward Thorndike

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• I am a man of tomorrow, but I also live my past.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Live
  • Past
  • Tomorrow

• America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • America
  • Political
  • City

• I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?

  

  Dana Fox
  • Amazing
  • Thought
  • Awesome

• I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • War
  • Past

• You care enough, that you want your life to be fulfilled in a living way, not in a painting way, not in a writing way... you really do want it to be involving in living, corresponding with other living objects, moving, changing, that kind of thing.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Moving

• His last 2 shows in the U.S. were in Chicago and St. Louis. I don't know what made me go on the trip with him, but I'm so very glad I did. They were two of the finest concerts I've ever seen.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Know
  • Me
  • Chicago

• Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Way
  • Poetry
  • Painting

• I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • Service
  • General
  • Retired

• I've always known that Rio and Tokyo are my two Olympics. Now that Rio hasn't gone to plan, Tokyo has to work, and I'm more motivated than ever.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Work
  • Always
  • Motivated

• I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now I was not always on the ground. I praise God for His mercy; for it was He only Who stretched out His hand to me. May He be blessed for ever! Amen.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • May
  • Friends

• When you want the belt, you have to work for it.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Work
  • Want
  • Belt

• The Female Western is the battle between the good and evil methods of getting the men who perform best.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Good
  • Men
  • Evil

• Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

  

  Andrew Carnegie
  • Good
  • Community
  • Trust

• I suspect that the framers of the Bill of Rights have long since rolled over in their graves.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Long

• The investor world that looks at studios as part of media companies will say that the studio business is supposed to be erratic. Not at our company. Not at Time Warner.

  

  Jeff Bewkes
  • Time
  • World
  • Business

• There's no better feeling than just going in and just working with someone and what comes out is something that the world knows about.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
  • World
  • Feeling

• Stuff doesn't matter - boats, cars, fancy things don't matter. What matters, what will matter to me, is the love of the people around me, and did I take a chance? Did I seize an opportunity to do something for people with the talents that I was lucky enough to be given? Did I make a difference in the lives of people who needed me?

  

  James Comey
  • People
  • Opportunity

• When I look out at the audience at some of our shows, I think we are reaching a younger audience... I see lots of people in their 30s and 40s, but I also see a lot of people in their young and middle teens, and that's definitely reassuring.

  

  Alex Lifeson Rush
  • People

• In film, the camera can get an array of shots so the audience can see the emotion the character is giving off. Using close-ups on the character's face really helps get the message across. On stage, you can't do that. But the stage has that live feeling that you can't get anywhere else because the audience is right there.

  

  Alice Eve
  • Live
  • Character
  • Giving

• A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part.

  

  Sophocles
  • Actor
  • Fool
  • Act

• When I was in drama school, I really got into a dark place. I went to a therapist - it was really helpful to have that dialogue with someone. So I understand anxiety.

  

  Finn Jones
  • School
  • Dark
  • Drama

• What is a turducken? An exclusive culinary creation available by special order from some little Cajun town down south. Entirely deboned, a turducken consists of a turkey, stuffed with duck, stuffed with a chicken, like an edible Russian nesting doll. Some were stuffed with alligator, crap, shrimp; my favorite was the traditional cornbread variety.

  

  S. A. Bodeen

• But, if you believe we should go around the world overturning regimes to make little United States, I don't agree with that, because I don't think we're capable of doing that.

  

  Brent Scowcroft
  • World
  • Believe

• Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.

  

  Edward Thorndike