Career Quote by Kingman Brewster, Jr Download Open image “Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.” — Kingman Brewster, Jr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Career Hallmark Jargon Profession
People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to understand one another. — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
There wasn't much technical terminology, and then, most academics are not trained in writing. And there is what is probably worse than ever before,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and specious profundity… — David Lehman Copy Share Image
People seem to get caught up in jargon like they get caught up in ashrams and power structures and they never become free. They… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon. — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
When the nature of the thing is incomprehensible, I can acquiesce in the Scripture: but when the signification of words is incomprehensible, I cannot… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word, — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
Jargon is making it increasingly hard to understand what a public figure is actually trying to say — Don Watson Copy Share Image
It is the natural desire of each nation to use the other as an instrument of its own purposes and policies. By dint of… — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
Maybe you are the "cool" generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately… — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
While the spoken word can travel faster, you cant take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at… — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk… — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only… — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
The presumption of innocence is not just a legal concept. In commonplace terms, it rests on that generosity of spirit which assumes the best,… — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
You and I know that there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly. — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II. — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like… — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program. — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness. — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still… — Nas Copy Share Image
One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation. — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
There are so many things you can do with your life, you can go to school and study toward your career, you can become… — Simphiwe Scientist Dumi Copy Share Image
I always knew I wanted to have a good career, so I made it happen. — Chord Overstreet Copy Share Image
I am a very big fan of Brian Eno, of his work as an artist and making his music, and as a producer. In… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
If I can beat a proven champion like Canelo, that will take my career to a different level. — Gennady Golovkin Copy Share Image
My non-career. My excuse for a career? Honestly, I never think about the word 'career.' I've had managers, the minute they say it to… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
I started off as a model maker, so the first part of my career was a model maker and then a motion control camera… — John Knoll Copy Share Image
Growing up I did commercials and things like that, but nothing serious. As I got older, my family is really hardcore into academics. They… — Portia Doubleday Copy Share Image
You can have a career and kids who love you. But you have to nurture yourself and find a way to be fulfilled so… — Catherine Reitman Copy Share Image
