It sometimes is better to write in a more directed, focused way when the pages are aimed at something already, a mission… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
I call it the Rule of Three. If you read a company's financial statements three times, and you still can't figure out… — James Chanos Copy Share Image
In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
A psychiatrist once told me early in treatment, "Stop trying to make me like you," and what a sobering and welcome smack… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Prediction can never be absolutely valid and therefore science can never prove some generalization or even test a single descriptive statement and… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
The only universal attribute of scientific statements resides in their potential fallibility. If a claim cannot be disproven, it does not belong… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In the metropolitan haunts of the highly sophisticated, the cocktail is no longer an instrument of friendship but a competitive fashion statement,… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
Behold our refutation of the error. It is not based on documents of faith, but on the reasons and statements of the… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
It is the rule which says that the other rules of scientific procedure must be designed in such a way that they… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating. — Henry Flynt Copy Share Image
It's very atmospheric. It's not a building that is a severe statement in the skyline. We need the height; otherwise, the building… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
The conjuror or con man is a very good provider of information. He supplies lots of data, by inference or direct statement,… — James Randi Copy Share Image
I think it's important to keep mantras fresh (sometimes the same verse can get stale). That being said, I love this powerful… — Deena Kastor Copy Share Image
George Kennan is another extreme case. He was the American consul in Berlin until the war between Germany and the United States… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In Indiana we had a queen we named Alice which lived to the ripe old age of eight years and two months… — Jay Smith Copy Share Image
Certainly, I signed a statement that I killed two and a half million Jews. But I could just as well have said… — Rudolf Hess Copy Share Image
Jazz is such a powerful cultural statement that it's almost as if it's intertwined with society. — Tom Harrell Copy Share Image
To listen is very hard, because it asks of us so much interior stability that we no longer need to prove ourselves… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
There is something to be said about a pastor and a church that develop a missions statement and the people take ownership… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
In my public statements I have earnestly urged that there rested upon government many responsibilities which affect the moral and spiritual welfare… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true or false. — Robert Collier Copy Share Image
Here's the scientific community saying, fundamentally, "If we don't change our ways, we're screwed." And they got no attention at all. Even… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Too much knowledge could be a bad thing. I was lead to the Szemerédi theorem by proving a result, about squares, that… — Endre Szemeredi Copy Share Image
