Kaplan's Quotes

#1. 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. - Author: Robert D. Kaplan

#2. 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. - Author: Bruce Eric Kaplan

#3. Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness. - Author: Bruce Eric Kaplan

#4. 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. - Author: Bruce Eric Kaplan

#5. 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. - Author: Michael Ignatieff

#6. 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. - Author: Bruce Eric Kaplan

#7. 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. - Author: Alice Kaplan

#8. In a relationship there is the information that we need and do not ask for, and the information we have but choose to ignore. - Author: Debra L. Kaplan

#9. 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. - Author: Gabe Kaplan

#10. Even in the heart of America, if a small city is not connected in some demonstrable fashion to other continents, it is dead. - Author: Robert D. Kaplan

#11. Just thinking about the cake she was not eating made her cry. - Author: Michael Kaplan

#12. 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. - Author: Robert D. Kaplan

#13. 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. - Author: Louise J. Kaplan

#14. It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable. - Author: Robert D. Kaplan

#15. Fathers represent another way of looking at life - the possibility of an alternative dialogue. - Author: Louise J. Kaplan

#16. If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation. - Author: Robert D. Kaplan

#17. 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 - Author: Allan Heinberg

#18. 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. - Author: Louise J. Kaplan

#19. 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. - Author: Louise J. Kaplan

#20. 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. - Author: Louise J. Kaplan

#21. Kazakhstan is Mackinder's Heartland! - Author: Robert D. Kaplan

#22. 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. - Author: Bruce Eric Kaplan

#23. 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. - Author: Hester Kaplan

#24. 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. - Author: Robert D. Kaplan

#25. 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. - Author: Robert D. Kaplan

#26. 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. - Author: Robert D. Kaplan

#27. There are riches enough for all of us, no matter our abilities or circumstances. It is only the inspiration that requires summoning. - Author: Robert D. Kaplan

#28. In the open air you don't play as many quiet songs as you would normally. - Author: Ira Kaplan

#29. 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. - Author: Steven Laurence Kaplan

#30. 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. - Author: Bruce Eric Kaplan

#31. As the fans' voting reflected, people want to hear your best-known songs. - Author: Ira Kaplan

#32. 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. - Author: Ira Kaplan

#33. I knew that if I concentrated on AdBrite, I could probably make a big company out of it. - Author: Philip J. Kaplan

#34. 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. - Author: Howard Kaplan

#35. SELLING HAS BEEN DEFINED AS: THE ACT OF PERSUADING OR CONVINCING SOMEONE TO BUY YOUR PRODUCT, SERVICE, OR IDEA. - Author: Mike Kaplan

#36. 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. - Author: Louise J. Kaplan

#37. I hate cops. You're either a cop or a reporter. And I hate cops and newspapermen. - Author: James Kaplan

#38. I was trying to be a writer, and I was kind of getting sidetracked, so I started doing cartoons as a form of expression. - Author: Bruce Eric Kaplan

#39. 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. - Author: Linda Kaplan Thaler

#40. 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. - Author: Robert D. Kaplan

#41. Likewise, democracy in Saudi Arabia is potentially our enemy. - Author: Robert D. Kaplan

#42. 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. - Author: Ira Kaplan

#43. Nabhan's forecasts nailed three of the largest seismic events on the West Coast in 1996. - Author: Erin Aubry Kaplan

#44. 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. - Author: Robert D. Kaplan

#45. Denial is a useful defense mechanism until it's not. - Author: Rosalind Kaplan

#46. 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. - Author: James Kaplan

#47. 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. - Author: Robert D. Kaplan

#48. 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. - Author: Louise J. Kaplan

#49. Europe's era of internal cohesion may already be past. - Author: Robert D. Kaplan

#50. Consistent alignment of capabilities and internal processes with the customer value proposition is the core of any strategy execution. - Author: Robert S. Kaplan

#51. 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. - Author: Robert S. Kaplan

#52. 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. - Author: Louise J. Kaplan

#53. 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. - Author: Robert D. Kaplan

#54. 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?' - Author: Bruce Eric Kaplan

#55. We only got clothing once a year, like, right before school began. It's like, that's when you got your clothing. - Author: Bruce Eric Kaplan

#56. 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. - Author: James Kaplan

#57. It bears repeating: you don't have to be good at everything. - Author: Robert S. Kaplan

#58. A mere 7% of employees today fully understand their company's business strategies and what's expected of them in order to help achieve company goals. - Author: Robert S. Kaplan

#59. state's position on the map is the first thing that defines it, more than its governing philosophy even. - Author: Robert D. Kaplan

#60. Normally an infant learns to use his mother as a "beacon of orientation" during the first five months of life. The mother's presence is like a fixed light that gives the child the security to move out safely to explore the world and then return safely to harbor. - Author: Louise J. Kaplan

#61. Process improvement programs are like teaching people how to fish. Strategy maps and scorecards teach people where to fish. - Author: Robert S. Kaplan

#62. It's time to raise a generation of participants, not another generation of fans. - Author: Janice Kaplan

#63. What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment. - Author: Bruce Eric Kaplan

#64. In television writing, you want to hear what the characters say as opposed to giving them something to say. It's the same with the cartoons. - Author: Bruce Eric Kaplan

#65. When I'm on the set, I'll come up with ideas if I'm sort of just between responsibilities, because there's a lot of sitting around on set. Invariably, though, the stuff I come up with on the set tends to be bad. - Author: Bruce Eric Kaplan

#66. There's an actual physiological thing that happens to me on tour. There's that moment where I sit in my seat and click the seatbelt, and five seconds later I fall asleep. - Author: Ira Kaplan

#67. Elaine's lows were low, but her highs were...well her highs were magic that transformed mere earth, air, and water into the breath of life. - Author: Mark Adam Kaplan

#68. I actually thought, like, I was sure 'Get Smart' and, like, 'James Bond' movies, I was sure that that's what real life was like. - Author: Bruce Eric Kaplan

#69. Some sports teams hate each other in the locker room and that's what makes them great. - Author: Ira Kaplan

#70. Grand strategy is about marrying ends to means, about doing what you can, consistent with the nation's capabilities and resources. - Author: Robert D. Kaplan

#71. 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! - Author: Philip K. Dick

#72. In L.A., you can put out a craft-service table anywhere, and it's no big deal. But in New York, people who walk by it on the street get really angry about it. - Author: Bruce Eric Kaplan

#73. There ought to be something about computers and artificial intelligence [in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations]. Surely somebody somewhere said something memorable. - Author: Justin Kaplan

#74. When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost. - Author: Gabe Kaplan

#75. Media organizations are global. They may be based in the U.S., but they're essentially global. - Author: Robert D. Kaplan

#76. If I would need to make a prediction I still believe Kaplan's scenario is very plausible. - Author: David Korten

#77. China is able to feed 23 percent of the world's population from 7 percent of the arable land - "by crowding some 2,000 human beings onto each square mile of cultivated earth in the valleys and flood plains," as Fairbank points out. - Author: Robert D. Kaplan

#78. When people ask you to do stuff, it's not your idea anymore, so it's tough to get behind it. - Author: Ira Kaplan

#79. I've never written a song that's hopeless. I'm not a hopeless person. I'm crazily optimistic. I crazily see the good in people. - singer Michael Stipe of R.E.M. Focusing on the tiniest details, finding magic in even the smallest inspirations, embracing the briefest moments-that's where passion is. - Author: Linda Kaplan Thaler

#80. I don't think simple is an insult. Something that's really simple and great is probably harder to do than something more complex. - Author: Ira Kaplan

#81. I can't wait to work for Rick Kaplan. He's a great producer. I would host an infomercial if he would produce it. - Author: Tucker Carlson

#82. It's self-soothing for me to draw. So if I'm upset, drawing makes me less upset. - Author: Bruce Eric Kaplan

#83. Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a lasting impression that can bring more gratitude into the world-for children and adults. - Author: Janice Kaplan

#84. Geography and history demonstrate that we can never discount Russia. Russia's partial resurgence in our own age following the dissolution of the Soviet Empire is part of an old story. Russia - Author: Robert D. Kaplan

#85. The first thing to recognize not just about Afghanistan but about any poor undeveloped country is that as big as it looks on the map, it's much bigger when you're there. - Author: Robert D. Kaplan

#86. When I was a kid, I would be watching TV shows like, you know, like 'Get Smart' and be like, 'That's what being an adult is.' - Author: Bruce Eric Kaplan

#87. Without strong visionary leadership, no strategy will be executed effectively. - Author: Robert S. Kaplan

#88. Then Frank said, 'Have you ever heard that when five o'clock comes, it's martini time? We could be right in the middle of a scene, but it's over for me, because it's martini time. Did you ever hear that? - Author: James Kaplan

#89. Who is the player and who's being played? - Author: Andrew Kaplan

#90. Don't turn on monitization, typically, until it's going to be significant. - Author: Philip J. Kaplan

#91. Books that have been owned by someone for many years for a specific purpose carry not just memories, (that is obvious), they also reveal their owner's true values; for the books we own may indicate something about us very different from what we think. - Author: Robert D. Kaplan

#92. My cartoon life is in my office, and it's very separate and getting very in my own head. My television life is I'm begging one of the actors to say the line in the way I'd like them to. - Author: Bruce Eric Kaplan

#93. It got so ridiculous that I was like, there's no way this is going to last. - Author: Philip J. Kaplan

#94. Steps for Problem-Solving Know your nomenclature. Identify the functional groups. Identify the other reagents. Identify the most reactive functional group(s). Identify the first step of the reaction. Consider stereoselectivity. - Author: Kaplan

#95. The invisible bond that gives the baby rein to discover his place in the world also brings the creeping baby back to home base ... In this way he recharges himself. He refuels on the loving energies that flow to him from his mother. Then he's off for another foray of adventure and exploration. - Author: Louise J. Kaplan

#96. I used cartoons as diaries. I still do. They're my way of figuring out the world, what's happening to me or what I'm thinking about. - Author: Bruce Eric Kaplan

#97. The initial journey towards sobriety is a delicate balance between insight into one's desire for escape and abstinence from one's addiction. - Author: Debra L. Kaplan

#98. As Napoleon said, to know a nation's geography is to know its foreign policy - Author: Robert D. Kaplan

#99. In many ways, cartooning is my therapy. I've always said they're like my diaries. It's thoughts and feelings and things I've seen on any particular day. - Author: Bruce Eric Kaplan

#100. Managing risk is very different from managing strategy. Risk management focuses on the negative-threats and failures rather than opportunities and successes. - Author: Robert S. Kaplan