Top 100 Kaplan Quotes
#1. Mr. Kaplan is the first traveler to take us on a journey to the jagged places where these tectonic plates meet, and his argument
that our future is being shaped far away 'at the ends of the earth'
makes his travelogue pertinent and compelling reading.
Michael Ignatieff
#2. But maybe, that's the point. That there are no guarentees. There are no happy endings. But you show up anyway. You don't give up. You NEVER give up. Maybe that's what it takes to be a HERO. -Billy Kaplan
Allan Heinberg
#3. When I was planning LearnVest, everyone told me I had to talk to Ann Kaplan, one of the first female partners at Goldman Sachs. Within five minutes of our meeting, she totally got the idea - and by the time I left, she was a seed investor.
Alexa Von Tobel
#4. Peter Kaplan was a partner, a mentor, and a friend.
Jared Kushner
#5. It's - it's a variable." Kaplan was shaking, white-lipped and pale. "Something from which no inference can be made. The man from the past. The machines can't deal with him. The variable man!
Philip K. Dick
#6. If I would need to make a prediction I still believe Kaplan's scenario is very plausible.
David Korten
#7. I can't wait to work for Rick Kaplan. He's a great producer. I would host an infomercial if he would produce it.
Tucker Carlson
#8. I was 25 when I was made director of marketing at 'Newsweek.' I was 29 when I was made chief executive officer of Kaplan Educational Centers. I was raised to be confident.
Jonathan Grayer
#10. When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into a program that placed us with a lovely Mexican family. We lived with them for six weeks while studying Spanish poetry and Mexican anthropology.
Mary Doria Russell
#11. As recently as 1975, a basic American psychiatry textbook estimated that the frequency of all forms of incest as one case per million. [James Henderson, "Incest", in A. M. Freedman, H.I. Kaplan and B.J. Sadock, eds., Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 2nd ed. 1975 p. 1532.]
Judith Lewis Herman
#12. Teddy: Sorry, Kaplan. You're stuck with me. Till death do us part.
Billy: Teddy Altman, did you just propose to me?
Allan Heinberg
#13. I spent most of my career in education and technology. I worked at Kaplan, and I was one of the first people trying to bring innovation into for-profit education.
Jose Ferreira
#14. The revolution was a gift from God to the Romanian people. The Romanian people must now repay this gift by opening their hearts to people of all faiths, especially to those who suffered here in the past.
Robert D. Kaplan
#15. As an adult, it's hard for me to remember my mother before her sickness. But if I go back into childhood, I can access that.
Bruce Eric Kaplan
#16. Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.
Bruce Eric Kaplan
#17. In Los Angeles, it's always nice out. In New York, it can be nice out or horrifying. You really have no idea what you're going to get on any given day.
Bruce Eric Kaplan
#18. It was memorable the first time 'The New Yorker' bought a cartoon from me. I had been sending them batches for years every week, and they didn't respond to them.
Bruce Eric Kaplan
#19. Beauvoir was untouched by the criticisms; her diary was a record of one consciousness, her own: "This is what I saw and how I saw it. I have not tried to say more.
Alice Kaplan
#20. In a relationship there is the information that we need and do not ask for, and the information we have but choose to ignore.
Debra L. Kaplan
#21. I mean, I would have loved to have kept on being a big television star. If that's the way things would have broke, I would have loved to have done that. I just didn't really want to continue and be someone who took whatever was offered.
Gabe Kaplan
#22. Even in the heart of America, if a small city is not connected in some demonstrable fashion to other continents, it is dead.
Robert D. Kaplan
#23. Just thinking about the cake she was not eating made her cry.
Michael Kaplan
#24. Americans are opting out of public venues like the playground and the sidewalk for private venues like the healthclub and the mall. We're living our lives inside one form of corporation or another.
Robert D. Kaplan
#25. Adolescence is a time of active deconstruction, construction, reconstruction
a period in which past, present, and future are rewoven and strung together on the threads of fantasies and wishes that do not necessarily follow the laws of linear chronology.
Louise J. Kaplan
#26. It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable.
Robert D. Kaplan
#27. Fathers represent another way of looking at life - the possibility of an alternative dialogue.
Louise J. Kaplan
#28. If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation.
Robert D. Kaplan
#29. Adolescence is the time to enlarge the natural sentiments of pity, friendship, and generosity, the time to develop an understanding of human nature and the varieties of human character, the time to gain insight into the strengths and weaknesses of all men and to study the history of mankind.
Louise J. Kaplan
#30. Young people ... have more compassion and tenderness toward the elderly than most middle-aged adults. Nothing
not avarice, not pride, not scrupulousness, not impulsiveness
so disillusions a youth about her parents as the seemingly inhumane way they treat her grandparents.
Louise J. Kaplan
#31. What eleven- to thirteen-year-old boys fear is passivity of any kind. When they do act passively we can be fairly certain that it is an act of aggression designed to torment a parent or teacher ... Mischief at best, violence at worst is the boy's proclamation of masculinity.
Louise J. Kaplan
#33. No, I never - no one ever - I never learned anything when I was a kid. Honestly, my parents had nothing to tell me - like, no wisdom, nothing.
Bruce Eric Kaplan
#34. Mothers...accept when they have to, let go when they must, but watch out; they'll also turn their back on whoever hurts their child so quickly you'll feel the wind cut your face.
Hester Kaplan
#35. Romania was an original mix: a population that looked Italian but wore the expressions of Russian peasants; an architectural backdrop that often evoked France and Central Europe; and service and physical conditions that resembled those in Africa.
Robert D. Kaplan
#36. it was the power of the military, and in particular that of the Air Force, which was the hidden hand that allowed universalist ideas to matter so much more than terrain and the historical experience of people living on it.
Robert D. Kaplan
#37. It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.
Robert D. Kaplan
#38. There are riches enough for all of us, no matter our abilities or circumstances. It is only the inspiration that requires summoning.
Robert D. Kaplan
#39. In the open air you don't play as many quiet songs as you would normally.
Ira Kaplan
#40. compatriots needed to weave into the social fabric bakeries close to home or bread trucks that deliver; like a sort of societal gluten, sources of bread constitute networks of sociability that structure daily life.
Steven Laurence Kaplan
#41. One quintessential moment in time is when you're 22, when you graduate college. And then another quintessential time is as a middle-age man. That's the convergence.
Bruce Eric Kaplan
#42. As the fans' voting reflected, people want to hear your best-known songs.
Ira Kaplan
#43. I have grown more forgiving. I accept that not everything is for me. I'm not as in love with my own opinions as I used to be. And anger is not something that comes to me as quickly as it once did.
Ira Kaplan
#44. I knew that if I concentrated on AdBrite, I could probably make a big company out of it.
Philip J. Kaplan
#45. My favorite book title ever is Ross Thomas' THE FOOLS IN TOWN ARE ON OUR SIDE. Good book too as I recall read it a long time ago but Ross Thomas is consistently good.
Howard Kaplan
#46. SELLING HAS BEEN DEFINED AS: THE ACT OF PERSUADING OR CONVINCING SOMEONE TO BUY YOUR PRODUCT, SERVICE, OR IDEA.
Mike Kaplan
#47. Schoolchildren make up their own rules and enforce their own conformities. They feel safest when leisure time is rationed and dosed. They like to wear uniforms, and they frown on personal idiosyncrasies. Deviance is the mark of an outsider.
Louise J. Kaplan
#48. I hate cops. You're either a cop or a reporter. And I hate cops and newspapermen.
James Kaplan
#49. I was trying to be a writer, and I was kind of getting sidetracked, so I started doing cartoons as a form of expression.
Bruce Eric Kaplan
#50. GRIT is Guts, Resilience, Industriousness and Tenacity. GRIT is the ability to focus, stay determined, stay optimistic in the face of a challenge, and simply work harder than the next guy or gal.
Linda Kaplan Thaler
#51. The United States was a great power less because of its ideas than because, with direct access to the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, it was "the most favored state in the world from the point of view of location.
Robert D. Kaplan
#52. Likewise, democracy in Saudi Arabia is potentially our enemy.
Robert D. Kaplan
#53. Wearing a bow tie is a statement. Almost an act of defiance.
Rick Kaplan
#54. It's one of the things that makes it enjoyable to keep playing; you have to approach each set differently and make some balance between what you want to do and what seems right.
Ira Kaplan
#56. We are forever asking Nature whether it has stopped beating its wife.
Abraham Kaplan
#57. Nabhan's forecasts nailed three of the largest seismic events on the West Coast in 1996.
Erin Aubry Kaplan
#58. democracy that cannot control its own population may be worse for human rights than a dictatorship that can.
Robert D. Kaplan
#59. Traditionally, the only way I come up with cartoons is by sitting at my desk and thinking.
Bruce Eric Kaplan
#60. Sinatra once said that the only two people he was ever afraid of were his mother and Tommy Dorsey - a flip comment but also a sincere and deeply significant one.
James Kaplan
#61. of ocean, around the North Pole there is an ocean surrounded by a near-unbroken
Robert D. Kaplan
#62. We are all just little dolls of ourselves. Who occasionally pull back the curtains to reveal the real us.
Bruce Eric Kaplan
#63. A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don't even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they're so mundane that we just take them for granted. But history shows that it's the mundane changes that are more important than the dramatic 'newsworthy' events.
Robert D. Kaplan
#65. I'm a Fool" may not be a great song, but Sinatra's shattering performance of it transcends the material. His emotion is so naked that we're at once embarrassed and compelled: we literally feel for him.
James Kaplan
#66. I started doing a Twitter feed when my father was dying. I was very distracted, preoccupied. It was upsetting.
Bruce Eric Kaplan
#68. When you accept that you may fail, you can accomplish anything. Fear can be so debilitating. Every day I'm faced with difficult decisions, but losing the fear helps me make the right choices.
Linda Kaplan Thaler
#69. The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not.
Louise J. Kaplan
#70. Bismarck's genius, as well as his great flaw, was the same as that of another outstanding nineteenth-century politician of the German-speaking world, Prince Clemens Metternich. Both men were artificers, able to hold off the future by building a fragile present out of pieces of the past.
Robert D. Kaplan
#71. I am assuming my father learned at an early age that there is nothing more dangerous than showing your true self. I think a lot of us learn that, and it actually may be true.
Bruce Eric Kaplan
#72. She stopped me cold when she said, 'What color is the wind?'
James Kaplan
#73. In 1945, there were 20,000 mosques in Turkey; in 1985, 72,000, and that number has since risen steadily, out of proportion to the population.
Robert D. Kaplan
#74. Of course I loved 'I Love Lucy' and saw every episode over and over again. I found it heartbreaking that Ricky got to be famous and have an exciting life at the Tropicana while Lucy was stuck in that terrible apartment with the Mertzes.
Bruce Eric Kaplan
#75. Paradoxically, the toddler's "No" is also a preliminary to his saying yes. It is a sign that he is getting ready to convert his mother's restrictions and prohibitions into the rules for behavior that will belong to him.
Louise J. Kaplan
#76. 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
#77. I never really got into 'The Munsters' that much, but there was one aspect that was compelling. That was Marilyn. She was the only normal one among this group of creatures.
Bruce Eric Kaplan
#80. 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
#81. Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
Gabe Kaplan
#82. Consistent alignment of capabilities and internal processes with the customer value proposition is the core of any strategy execution.
Robert S. Kaplan
#83. Reaching your potential is not simply about dreaming or being idealistic, It is a process that involve specific actions, exercises, discipline and hard work. It is challenging, rewarding and unending.
Robert S. Kaplan
#84. A man's fatherliness is enriched as much by his acceptance of his feminine and childlike strivings as it is by his memories of tender closeness with his own father. A man who has been able to accept tenderness from his father is able later in life to be tender with his own children.
Louise J. Kaplan
#85. When I was a kid, and I was watching TV, I just loved it so much that I wanted to crawl into that TV.
Bruce Eric Kaplan
#86. It was the union of Franks, Goths, and Roman provincials against these Asiatics that produced the basis for modern France.
Robert D. Kaplan
#87. China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) sees U.S. battle networks - "which rely heavily on satellites and the Internet to identify targets, coordinate attacks, guide 'smart bombs' and more" - as its "Achilles' heel.
Robert D. Kaplan
#88. In New York, all the crews read 'The New Yorker.' In Los Angeles, they don't know from 'The New Yorker.'
Bruce Eric Kaplan
#89. I always doodled as a kid while I was talking on the phone or watching TV.
Bruce Eric Kaplan
#90. When Erdogan assumed control, he gave power to a wave of Islamism, strengthened by Ozal, that had been creeping back into Turkish life under the radar screen of official Kemalism.
Robert D. Kaplan
#91. When sex and money are fused in the service of exploitation, the two create an even more destructive form of rage of a type often exhibited in narcissistic and potentially psychopathic populations.
Debra L. Kaplan
#92. Europe is a landscape; East Asia a seascape. Therein lies a crucial difference between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Robert D. Kaplan
#93. It's not like during your normal day, anyone says, 'How do having meaning in your life? How do you make meaning in your life?'
Bruce Eric Kaplan
#94. We only got clothing once a year, like, right before school began. It's like, that's when you got your clothing.
Bruce Eric Kaplan
#95. I thought about trying to do a strip. I even tried to do it, but I felt I didn't have the voice. Even though I liked that form, I didn't think I thought in the form of the three panels.
Bruce Eric Kaplan
#96. And believe me, there is nobody who hates Communism more than a former Communist.
Robert D. Kaplan
#97. It is the freedom to concentrate military equipment in key locations around the world that has preserved American military might.
Robert D. Kaplan
#98. I read the 'New Yorker' when I was a kid. I used to love the cartoons and pick the cartoons out of the library, so I felt I knew the world of their cartoons.
Bruce Eric Kaplan
#99. Why don't you steal the pattern out of Kenton's '23 Degrees North, 82 Degrees West'?" the trombonist, an alumnus of Stan Kenton's big band, said.
James Kaplan
#100. You don't grow up gradually. You grow up in short bursts at pivotal moments, by suddenly realizing how ignorant and immature you are.
Robert D. Kaplan
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