Abraham Kaplan Quotes

#1. All of these things we're talking about now, it will take time to sink in. But when voters begin to realize what we're really up against here, and what he's trying to do, I think you're going to see a sea shift here pretty quickly.

Marco Rubio

#2. Culture is like water in the sea; it can either keep the business ship afloat or drag it down and sink it.

Pearl Zhu

#3. To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, What would the world be like if it were true? The operationist asks, What would we have to do to come to believe it? For the pragmatist the question is, What would we do if did believe it?

Abraham Kaplan

#4. The ultimate promise of technology is to make us master of a world that we command by the push of a button.

Volker Grassmuck

#5. There is nothing more inspiring than having a mind unfold before you. Let people teach who have a calling. It is never just a job.

Abraham Kaplan

#6. I hurt my left knee playing left tackle. I had surgery on my right knee.

Logan Mankins

#7. I learned how to communicate and articulate myself from ballet. It's just insane to me, when they don't think of that as a part of our education.

Misty Copeland

#8. The price of training is always a certain trained incapacity: the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently.

Abraham Kaplan

#9. Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.

Abraham Kaplan

#10. Those who understand will understand.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#11. Then she broke down and cried onto the flowery wrapping paper. Melanie put her arms around the poor, thin body. What is Aunt Margaret made of? Birdbones and tissue paper. spun glass and straw.

Angela Carter

#12. Piper drew her dagger. Jason grabbed an ice-covered plank off the pool floor. Leo reached into his tool belt, but he was so shaken up, all he produced was a tin of breath mints. He shoved them back in, hoping nobody had noticed, and drew a hammer instead.

Rick Riordan

#13. We just have to go to that next class, read that next chapter, help that next person. You simply have to do that next good thing, and before you know it, you're living a good life.

Andrew Clements

#14. It's easy for people to mistake most musicians as living the easy life. It takes a while to get to that point. I'm sure it's like that for acting and television.

Chaz Bundick

#15. I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.

Sophocles

#16. Awaken and rejoice. Awaken and be alive. Awaken to the possibility of being fulfilled.

Prem Rawat

#17. We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. The proper concepts are needed to formulate a good theory, but we need a good theory to arrive at the proper concepts.

Abraham Kaplan

#18. We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.

Sam Riley

#19. A philosophy which speaks, even indirectly, only to philosophers is no philosophy at all; and I think the same is true if it speaks only to scientists, or only to jurists, or priests, or any other special class.

Abraham Kaplan

#20. Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject ... Every scientific community is a society in the small, so to speak, with its own agencies of social control.

Abraham Kaplan

#21. We are forever asking Nature whether it has stopped beating its wife.

Abraham Kaplan

#22. Experience is of particulars only.

Abraham Kaplan

#23. I've learned there's a big difference between a long-focused value investor and a good short-seller. That difference is psychological and I think it falls into the realm of behavioral finance.

James Chanos

#24. Courage is rarely reckless or foolish ... courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced.

Margaret Truman Daniel