His Own Making Quotes
- Avoid openly trying to reform people. Every man knows he is imperfect, but he doesn't want someone else trying to correct his faults. If you… — David Packard
- Man is/the symbol-using (symbol making, symbol-misusing) animal/inventor of the negative (or moralized by the negative)/separated from his natural condition by instruments of his own making/goaded… — Kenneth Burke
- The computing scientist's main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making. — Edsger Dijkstra
- Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because… — Frank Lloyd Wright
- Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the… — Edward Abbey
- The true hero is flawed. The true test of a champion is not whether he can triumph, but whether he can overcome obstacles - preferably… — Garth Stein
- Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though… — Fyodor Dostoevsky