Benjamin Graham Quotes

Whether we like it or not, government intervention in the face of surplus is here to stay.

Benjamin Graham

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• I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Self-destructive
  • Inherently

• He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Learn
  • Talent
  • Dedication

• When I first started out, I was a bad actor.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Bad
  • Actor
  • First

• If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • You
  • Alone
  • Write

• Every actor has their own process. For me, I really need to stay in the pocket. So, if I'm on set and I'm in character, I'm not thinking like a producer. If I'm on set and I'm not in character, wardrobe and make-up, and I'm just coming on set for the moments that I'm not shooting, then I'm able to be the producer.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Character

• The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Always

• It's a job. When I'm writing I'm going to do it five to six days a week and I'm going to work for four to six hours a day. There's no magic writing fairy. It's just hard work.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Job

• I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Never
  • First
  • Be The First

• I like most any place if I have Internet access.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Like
  • Internet
  • Most

• The whole world is a man's birthplace.

  

  Caecilius Statius
  • World
  • Man
  • Birthplace

• I went to a French immersion school, and French-Canadian improv is a big thing, and we had an improv team at school, and 12 of us would get up and make things up against other elementary schools. I'd always wanted to perform, and that was just another extension of it.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Up
  • School
  • Team

• I think I'm better than Mamet, I would say.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Think
  • Better
  • Say

• Social Security is the only thing most Americans can count on to keep them out of poverty during retirement.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Poverty
  • Retirement

• Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Lifetime
  • Every Man

• I think it's not really difficult to write about love. We've been saying the same thing over and over for so many years. But it depends on how honest it is and how good you make it feel. You can say 'I love you' in a trillion ways, and it can always sound different or feel different.

  

  Babyface
  • Good
  • Different
  • Love

• Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Time
  • Women
  • Understand

• Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find a new locus of identity or how to adjust to a spouse who stops working and who may loll, enjoying coffee and reading the paper online while you're still commuting.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Thinking
  • Money
  • May

• We're like a travelling circus... We're always on the go.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Like
  • Always
  • Circus

• So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be a citizen of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Yorker.

  

  Alma Guillermoprieto
  • Mexican

• I support very much the approaches that the President Ronald Reagan is taking. As you know, I am his greatest fan!

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Support

• I don't really do indulgences. I'm more interested in discipline, goal setting, and performance.

  

  Jessica Bird
  • Discipline

• Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

• Long practise in driving a racing car at a hundred miles an hour or so gives first-class training in control and judging distances at high speed and helps tremendously in getting motor sense, which is rather the feel of your engine than the sound of it, a thing you get through your bones and nerves rather than simply your ears.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Long
  • High
  • Control

• Whether we like it or not, government intervention in the face of surplus is here to stay.

  

  Benjamin Graham