Fred Polak Quotes

#1. The rise and fall of images of the future precedes or accompanies the rise and fall of cultures. As long as a society's image is positive and flourishing, the flower of culture is in full bloom. Once the image begins to decay and lose its vitality, however, the culture does not long survive

Fred Polak

#2. But magic, like everything else, follows certain natural laws. Magic needs energy wherever it can find it. If no other source of energy is available, it will take the life force of the magician who created it. That is why every use of magic weakens the magician.

Michael Scott

#3. On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.

David Ogilvy

#4. True nobleness in soul is only evinced in never suffering station to tempt us into a forgetfulness of ourselves and of what we owe to others.

John Tyler

#5. I'm a strange person. Sometimes I hardly know what I'm going to do or say next. Sometimes I seem a stranger to myself. Sometimes what I do surprises me and I can't understand why I do it.

Philip K. Dick

#6. Sleeping we imagine what awake we wish; D ogs dream of bones, and fishermen of fish.

Theocritus

#7. One can become 'Embodiment of Love' [Prem Swaroop], only when there is no my-ness [mamata].

Dada Bhagwan

#8. I don't believe in your God. And he sure as hell doesn't believe in me.

Max Hawthorne

#9. When the dominant images of a culture are anticipatory, they "lead" social development and provide direction for social change.

Fred Polak

#10. Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.

George S. Patton

#11. Mankind has invented the mirror in vain, for there's nobody in this world who looks into the mirror and sees himself as he truly is; each person has his own mirror hidden in his own mind and he can't see more than what that mirror in his mind reflects!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. Frequently He "carries" them by giving them a very simple faith, which takes the promise just as it stands, and believingly runs with every trouble straight to Jesus. The simplicity of their faith gives them an unusual degree of confidence, which carries them above the world.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#13. To understand Hitler's power as a speaker, we must consider that he was not just the bellowing tavern demagogue we always picture, but in fact constructed his speeches very deliberately.

Volker Ullrich

#14. We try to say it's creative and in a manner it is creative, but it is a business, because today, with the cost factor in crossing the boundaries that you do.

Skitch Henderson

#15. All human life at every stage of its development is worthy of protection.

Marco Rubio