Hook Quotes

362 quotes by 330 authors

When we first hear [a] word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at some… — Joshua Foer
There are three ways of trying to win the young. There is persuasion, there is compulsion, and there is attraction. You can preach at them:… — Kurt Hahn
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not… — Charles Caleb Colton
The love of Jesus Christ covers your sins, and it also gives you the power to let other people off the hook. You've been forgiven,… — Rick Warren
The more hooks an idea has, the better it will cling to memory. — Chip Heath
I call intuition cosmic fishing. You feel a nibble, then you've got to hook the fish. — R. Buckminster Fuller
I do think sometimes there's danger in guest appearance mania. I've seen too many examples that sound cool on paper, like 'Oh, get that guy… — Ezra Koenig
A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following — Duncan Sheik
Letting go, it's so hard The way it's hurting now To get this love untied So tough to stay with this thing 'cos if I… — Peter Gabriel
Differentiation is classroom practice that looks eyeball to eyeball with the reality that kids differ, and the most effective teachers do whatever it takes to… — Carol Ann Tomlinson
Itâ€™s hard to land a devastating jab/cross/hook/uppercut combo to your readerâ€™s imagination when youâ€™re telegraphing your punches. — Don Roff
Both Marx and Nietzsche understood that moral outrage is the last resort of the powerless. That is why Marx refused to issue moral condemnations of… — Robert Paul Wolff
Once you find the truth, no one can hurt you. You can let them off the hook. That is hard! Until then, keep distance, preserve… — Erich Schiffmann
Whatever we canâ€™t hold, we hang on a hook that will hold it. — Leslie Jamison
You can make a movie about anything, as long as it has a hook to hang the advertising on. — Roger Corman
A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other. — Samuel Johnson
Tell everyone you know: "My happiness depends on me, so you're off the hook." And then demonstrate it. Be happy, no matter what they're doing.… — Esther Hicks
I need to take a punch in order for me to throw that hook. — Nonito Donaire
A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys. — Baden Powell de Aquino
Blaming the system is soothing because it lets you off the hook. But when the system is broken, we wonder why you were relying in… — Seth Godin

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