Kluckhohn Quotes

#1. I walked all around it [the Guggenheim Bilbao] and couldn't find one clear, clean shot. To make things worse, the weather was lousy. Nothing about this rang commercial money shot. In a situation like this there's only one thing to do: forget about pleasing editors, please yourself.

Robert Polidori

#2. When you come up a bit short on excellence, you still win. When you strive for perfect, you're just never quite good enough.

Dawn Gluskin

#3. In my life, I wanted to meet certain people. I never met Charlie Chaplin, but I met Werner Herzog.

Philippe Petit

#4. Plato said that we are trapped inside a cave and know the world only through the shadows it casts on the wall. The skull is our cave, and mental representations are the shadows.

Steven Pinker

#5. Without the discovery of uniformities there can be no concepts, no classifications, no formulations, no principles, no laws; and without these no science can exist.

Clyde Kluckhohn

#6. Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

Richard Roeper

#7. The practice of democracy means that I, one person, one humble person, nevertheless feel some responsibility if the officials for whose election I was responsible go too far out of line.

Clyde Kluckhohn

#8. Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably together

Clyde Kluckhohn

#9. You'll remember Dr. Rice said that several times: It was not a warning about the place and the method and the time - it was a general warning. And that points out the imperfection, if you would, of our intelligence.

Lee H. Hamilton

#10. You don't feel thirty percent smarter when the stock goes up by thirty percent, so when the stock goes down you shouldn't feel thirty percent dumber,

Brad Stone

#11. I get nervous when I fly; I'm used to walking with my feet.

Jack Johnson

#12. The reason that some singers go on to become great artists has very little to do with their voices, but rather with the fact that they have used their instruments as tools for detailed communication.

Renee Fleming

#13. I give you the sign, you move in."
"What's the sign?' Mace pushed.
"I was thinking a rain dance on the front lawn. That work for you?" I replied snottily.

Kristen Ashley

#14. The balancing act we parents attempt is convincing our children: 1. You are loved more than you can imagine. 2. The world does not revolve around you.

John Eldredge

#15. I cling to the optimistic belief that the haphazard and the hopscotch, the creature that sips among many flowers, may actually come up with something ...

Brad Leithauser

#16. Every human is like all other humans, some other humans, and no other human.

Clyde Kluckhohn

#17. There is a great correlation between music and images.

Graham Nash

#18. Our goal is not to douse the recession with money, which would be useless, as both you and I know. Our goal is to liberate the business initiative, to lower administrative and law enforcement pressure and to make legal protection truly effective

Dmitry Medvedev