Margaret Mead Quotes
The ability to learn is older - as it is also more widespread - than is the ability to teach.
Quotes to Explore
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
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May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
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The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.
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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
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Working with Jack Albertson was one of my great joys.
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What we do is entertainment. We entertain people. Sometimes we inspire people, but sometimes we are just a way to fill their time.
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I've made the decision not to do radio anymore.
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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
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Before the Great Chicago Fire, no one took notice of Patrick and Catherine O'Leary, two Irish immigrants who lived with their five children on the city's West Side.
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There are a lot of funny people in my family. Absolutely. There were a lot of jokes growing up around the dinner table, for sure. We didn't grow up in a creative family.
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My acting coach makes the impossible accessible.
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Does Sex Matter? Of course it does. But does it matter enough to Matter? That's a different question.
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I always had an awful lot going on in my head, always telling myself stories, very vivid imagination.
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You cannot be both unhappy and fully present in the Now.
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God is surrounded with people full of love who demand of him the benefits of love which are in his power: thus he is properly the king of love.
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Talk of mysteries! - Think of our life in nature, - daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, - rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! The solid earth! the actual world! the common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? where are we?
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What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal…. For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space.
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I stood beside a hill Smooth with new-laid snow, A single star looked out From the cold evening glow. There was not other creature That saw what I could see, I stood and watched the evening star As long as it watched me.
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I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but I love and need them all.
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Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
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With respect to duels, indeed, I have my own ideas. Few things in this so surprising world strike me with more surprise. Two little visual spectra of men, hovering with insecure enough cohesion in the midst of the unfathomable, and to dissolve therein, at any rate, very soon, make pause at the distance of twelve paces asunder; whirl around, and simultaneously by the cunningest mechanism, explode one another into dissolution; and, offhand, become air, and non-extant--the little spitfires!
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I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me.
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The ability to learn is older - as it is also more widespread - than is the ability to teach.
