Margaret Heffernan Quotes
Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.
Quotes to Explore
-
I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
-
I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
-
It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
-
It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
-
I don't care much about hardware. Nintendo games are some of the best games in the world, and from a more graphical standpoint, the Wii can't do what a PS3 or 360 can do.
-
Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
-
I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.
-
Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
-
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
-
It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
-
I have a pair of Rodarte leggings. They're crazy, but I wore them for one day, and then by the end of the day they weren't tearing, but they were getting a little loose.
-
I do think one should have clean feet.
-
I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
-
I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
-
Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
-
Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
-
Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
-
When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons.
-
Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.
-
That's what I'm doing. I'm trying to follow what I want to do as my dream. How do I become independent from everybody else?
-
You can spend your whole life in France without ever thinking about the Legion.
-
The war against British rule must continue until freedom is achieved.
-
We use social media as an adjunct to my total media/market outreach.
-
Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.
