Dear Competitor Quotes

#1. But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you - the social reformers - see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat them as objects without wills of their own, and therefore to degrade them.

Isaiah Berlin

#2. Narrow the Focus. By that I mean you shouldn't try to do everything; you should do a few things well.

Andy Stanley

#3. A lyric has to mean something to me, something that has happened to me.

Lou Rawls

#4. Now, Betteredge, exert those sharp wits of yours, and observe the conclusion to which the Colonel's instructions point!" I instantly exerted my wits. They were of the slovenly English sort; and they consequently muddled it all

Wilkie Collins

#5. The climatic world is one world even if politically we are not.

Reid Bryson

#6. a man who was friendly with everyone was an enemy to himself.

Mike Tyson

#7. Punk rock has never really had much patience with musical virtuosity. Actually, it'd be more accurate to say that for most of its history, punk has been actively hostile to virtuosity.

James Surowiecki

#8. My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who was my dad. Some dude who didn't stick around too long who Mom was happy to get rid of. She chose Homer, and Homer chose me, so he lent me his name even though I didn't have his blood.

Beth Ditto

#9. An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

Alfred North Whitehead

#10. The driver of the power of intelligent systems is
the knowledge the systems have about
their universe of discourse, Cyc has
not only the world's largest knowledge base,
but the best represented from a technical
point of view.

Edward Feigenbaum

#11. I can't work in an environment where it's a stiff hierarchy; that's not my kind of way.

Steven Rodney McQueen

#12. She had every right to be harsh, mean, and independent. Every damn right. And yet he had a feeling that she needed care more than anyone else in the world.

Alexandra Engellmann

#13. One reason the United States finds itself at the edge of a foreign policy disaster is its underinformed citizenry, a key weakness in democracy.

Stefan Halper

#14. You heard what Declan said about you," Cole realized. Liam gave a little shrug. "At least when he talks behind my back, he sticks to the same things he says to my face. It's actually kind of admirable.

Brandon Mull

#15. I am glad to see that you have enough imagination not to be altogether a fool ... Yes, it is want of imagination that makes people fools; they won't believe what they can't understand.

H. Rider Haggard