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“I would doubt that this much money has been spent accomplishing important on-the-ground recovery work. It is now coming up on 10 years since (it) was first listed as a threatened species, and it is still not through the bureaucratic morass.”
“I definitely like to have a good time. Ive always walked that line of being able to flip the switch. Theres a time to be loose, and theres a time to be serious. I try to be very aware of that.”
“We will not, therefore, lose our time praying to an imaginary god for things which our own exertions alone can procure”
“Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.”
“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”
“The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.”
I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the very sternest necessity can ever justify it. A government had better go to the very extreme of toleration, than to do aught that could be construed into an interference with, or to jeopardize in any degree, the common rights of its citizens.
The first time you say something, its heard. The second time, its recognized, and the third time its learned.
“[The truth is,] we all have done something unethical, ... Theres No Such Thing as Business Ethics.”
Attitude is the first quality that marks the successful man. If he has a positive attitude and is a positive thinker, who likes challenges and difficult situations, then he has half his success achieved.
Yesterday ended last night.
“The fact is, they have to do their job. I may not support the war, but I support them no matter what - theyre following orders.”
“Change your language and you change your thoughts.”
“If the frontline people do count, you couldnt prove it by examining the reward systems in most organizations.”
“Albrechts Law - Intelligent people, when assembled into an organization, will tend toward collective stupidity.”
I asked if Tyler was an artist. Tyler shrugged...What Tyler had created was the shadow of a giant hand. . . he said how at exactly four-thirty the hand was perfect. The giant shadow hand was perfect for one minute, and for one perfect minute Tyler sat in the palm of a perfection hed created himself. One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
It sounds trite, but only because words make everything true sound trite. Because words always screw up what youre trying to say.
“Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically,”
“Theres not a lot of detail in the maps.”
“Looking at every shock we have sustained since World War I, the trend has been to fall, then rally, and then move on to higher highs.”
“He was not a guy to throw a white scarf around his neck and hop into a plane. He was an engineer and a test pilot, capable of evaluating things from a technical standpoint.”
“Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.”
“Never risk a joke with someone who is unable to comprehend it”
“People still take it really personally. They come up to me at breakfast places like, When are you growing your hair back?”
“Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination.”