Ifs Quote by James Bryant Conant Download Open image “Just like a turtle, we only make progress if we stick our neck out.” — James Bryant Conant ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ifs Necks Progress Sticks Turtles
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all. — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it out. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little… — Linda Ellerbee Copy Share Image
If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to do so from the neck up instead of from the neck down. — Jimmy Doolittle Copy Share Image
If we don't progress, we backslide into bad habits, laziness and poor attitude. — Dan Gable Copy Share Image
Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation. — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence. — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
Education is what is left after all that has been learnt is forgotten. — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying. — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
There is only one proved method of assisting the advancement of pure science-that of picking men of genius, backing them heavily, and leaving them… — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning. — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences. — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface. — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
A conceptual scheme is never discarded merely because of a few stubborn facts with which it cannot be reconciled; a conceptual scheme is either… — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
Public education is a great instrument of social change. Through it, if we so desire, we can make our country more nearly a democracy… — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
Women still, when they have breast cancer, go to work; they still lead their lives. They have to. I just did what I was supposed to do. I didn't want to exploit it or be too "actory" about it, if that makes any sense. That's also why I didn't shave my head; I feel like you have to earn that.… — Monica Potter Copy Share
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul will be consigned to eternal torment in the never-ending subterranean barbecue if you fail to follow the whacky edicts of one particular set of puckered dogwhistles or another. You may recall from the great movie Strange… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share
If you restore a car, and you're making money, then you're doing it wrong. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars, the houses - that's not the American dream. That's the booby prize, in the end. Those are the booby prizes. And if you fall for them - if, when you achieve them, you believe that this… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding war, why we need to cut the military budget by 50%, why we need to bring back our troops scattered overseas, the police force of the world, in over a hundred countries, something like eight hundred… — Jill Stein Copy Share
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
