Doe Quotes - Page 390

I wouldn't like to see Cuba change in other ways. And the trouble is when Fidel [Castro] does go - I am sure he will at some stage. He will probably be replaced by some sort of Western capitalism, ultimately.

Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them.

I consider my music to be Progressive Synth Pop, which says nothing about what it sounds like, but does describe my basic approach.

What does everybody want deep in their hearts? Love.

If your team does not truly believe that you care about them, they will not follow you.

I mean does Israel want a third Intifada?

One does not deceive oneself about the consequences of one's acts; one deceives oneself about the ease with which one can live with those consequences.

The DOE and DOD are among the most notorious offenders of our hazardous waste laws.

I'm pretty resigned to the fact that I never hear music the way anyone else does, and I no longer find it surprising.

Faith in the possibilities of continued and rigorous inquiry does not limit access to truth to any channel or scheme of things. It does not first say that truth is universal and then add there is but one road to it.

It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as in its leisure, has something the matter with it.

In general, every stimulus directs activity. It does not simply excite it or stir it up, but directs it toward an object.

The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so when he gets beyond routine conditions he begins to pretend-to make claims for which there is no justification, and to trust to luck and to ability to impose upon others-to "bluff."

In all of its vulnerability, profound sincerity does, in its relationship to knowledge, find its way.

While writing is a mystical process, it's also work. If you show up to work five days in a row, nobody's going to pat you on the back - everyone does that. Well, do that with your writing. Just show up. Be there for it. When you get an idea, write it down somewhere and then be a steward of that idea.

I like anybody who does any kind of construction.

The Supreme Court has never ruled that Congress can use the Commerce Clause to require individuals to engage in an activity they have chosen to avoid. Yet that is precisely what Obamacare does: It forces Americans without health insurance to purchase coverage. Such a requirement is unprecedented and unconstitutional.

Filming takes a lot out of you. It really does. It's immensely demanding, and you have to put the rest of your life in the icebox until you do your final shot.

In education the appetite does indeed grow with eating. I have never known anyone to abandon study because they knew too much.

This method of deduction ... is often called "combinatory". Its usefulness is not exhausted at this stage, but it does even at the outset lead to some valuable conclusions.

The company owner doesn't need to win. The best idea does.

Success doesn't come instantly. Neither does the ability to lead.

Look behind you: What have you learned? Look around you: What is happening to others? Look above you: What does God expect of you? Look besides you: What resources are available to you?

People will not follow a leader who does not have confidence in himself.

How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden to the spirit to know.