James Fitzjames Stephen Quotes

#1. Persuasion, indeed, is a kind of force. It consists in showing a person the consequences of his actions. It is, in a word, force applied through the mind.

James Fitzjames Stephen

#2. Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.

David Eagleman

#3. Kanban lets your team members motivate themselves as they decide what to work on. They take ownership of the task and their pride is measured in the number of completed tasks. They

Aleksandar Olic

#4. Originally consists in thinking for yourself, and not in thinking unlike other people.

James Fitzjames Stephen

#5. The only shape in which equality is really connected with justice is this - justice presupposes general rules. If these general rules are to be maintained at all, it is obvious that they must be applied equally to every case which satisfies their terms.

James Fitzjames Stephen

#6. Not only are the varieties of morality innumerable, but some of them are conflicting with each other.

James Fitzjames Stephen

#7. The things which cannot be adequately represented by words are more important than those which can.

James Fitzjames Stephen

#8. Wisdom may be the ultimate arbiter, but is seldom the immediate agent in human affairs.

James Fitzjames Stephen

#9. A well-judging man will open his trunk-line of study in such a direction that, while habitually adhering to it, he may enjoy a ready access to such other fields of knowledge as are most nearly related to it.

James Fitzjames Stephen

#10. She had an emptiness in her eyes like a ghost tired of haunting.

Stuart Jaffe

#11. Power and courtly influence form an intoxicating draught even when raised to the lips of an ascetic and a saint.

James Fitzjames Stephen

#12. I think filmmakers are always interested in getting the best actor that they can find, the person who's the most right for it.

Melanie Lynskey

#13. The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

Benjamin Franklin

#14. A liberal conservative is a man who thinks things ought to progress but would rather they remained as they are.

James Fitzjames Stephen

#15. The lyrics are always the last thing I do. I always have a recording of basic tracks and maybe some of the lead work. I'll sit back and listen to it, and I'll just concentrate on what kind of feeling it gives me. My goal writing the lyrics is to not disrupt that feeling.

Tom Scholz

#16. Get in my way again, boy, and you're going to learn that Velkan isn't the only one in this family who has fangs. Retta to Viktor

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#17. To try to make men equal by altering social arrangements is like trying to make the cards of equal value by shuffling the pack.

James Fitzjames Stephen

#18. What's aero braking? That's a way to use the gravity and upper atmosphere of Earth to sling shot a ship out either deeper into space, or slow it down to be 'captured' by Earth's gravity.

Buzz Aldrin

#19. We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents.

Criss Jami