Napier Quotes

#1. I haven't decided yet if you're witty or clueless."
"All of the above," Napier answered. "Unless charming is an option, of course.

Emory Sharplin

#2. ...by shortening the labours doubled the life of the astronomer.

{On the benefit of John Napier's logarithms.}

Pierre-Simon Laplace

#3. The art of flexibility?"
"A most valuable talent," Napier grinned. "Most valuable indeed."

Tucker turned back around in the saddle, having the good sense not to ask him what he meant.

Emory Sharplin

#4. my management partner, Simon Napier-Bell, was more camp than a row of tents.

Craig Marks

#5. This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes because we are determined for it to change; and the motive for changing often comes out of wanting to be the kind of parent we didn't have.

Augustus Y. Napier

#6. Stillness offers an experience of being and a recognition that being ... my essence ... is a part of all Being, all Essence.

Nancy J. Napier

#7. Ordinarily, only the person whom we really love, who touches our very roots, has the capacity to drive us crazy, and it may be only this person who has the capacity to help us find our deepest strengths.

Augustus Y. Napier

#8. Thanks to my father who, as it was to turn out, had already taught me most of what I needed to know about business in his butcher's shop in Belfast. Thanks to my mother, who taught me that there are many things in life much more important than business.

Russell Napier

#9. Mmm, being irresistibly likeable is such a trial,' she drawled in an impeccable aristocratic whine. 'One is constantly in demand, but one must do one's duty, mustn't one, dear chap? Noblesse oblige and all that ...

Susan Napier

#10. A kite can't really fly free,that's just an expression. In order to soar high in the sky the string of a kite needs to be anchored. If the string breaks the kite drops back to the ground. The kite's freedom depends on it not being as free as he thinks it is.

Simon Napier-Bell

#11. The best thing about improv is that no matter how bad your show is, it's only 30 minutes, and never exists again. The worst thing is no matter how good your show is, it's only 30 minutes, and never exists again.

Mick Napier

#12. Doctrine does matter. But one must ever be reminded that to be right on doctrine does not mean one is right with the Lord.

John Napier

#13. If language was given to men to conceal their thoughts, then gesture's purpose was to disclose them.

John Napier

#14. The Pawn move is a capital investment. Every one of the forty-eight should, from the beginning, be spent as if it were one of the last forty-eight apprehensive and responsible dollars between yourself and starvation.

William Ewart Napier

#15. Parenting is a profoundly reciprocal process: we, the shapers of our children's lives, are also being shaped. As we struggle to beparents, we are forced to encounter ourselves; and if we are willing to look at what is happening between us and our children, we may learn how we came to be who we are.

Augustus Napier

#16. her, then make her miserable so she'll leave you," the dwarf said. "That's what I would do.

Dawn Napier

#17. Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.

Augustus Y. Napier

#18. She felt shy, like a precious gift being gloatingly unwrapped, but she didn't resent his moment of purely masculine triumph. The glory of the moment was also hers, this beautiful man hers. He was giving himself to her and asking nothing but what she was willing to give in return.

Susan Napier

#19. The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.

Augustus Y. Napier

#20. In the laboratory the gambits all test unfavorably, but the old rule wears well, that all gambits are sound over the board.

William Ewart Napier

#21. It is not what you do. It is that you do.

Mick Napier

#22. We can land men on the moon, but, for all our mechanical and electronic wizardry, we cannot reproduce an artificial fore-finger that can feel as well as beckon.

John Napier

#23. Of chess it has often been said that life is not long enough for it - but that is the fault of life, not chess.

William Ewart Napier

#24. Sad as it seems, I miss both the flies and Ma with equal measure.

Barry Napier

#25. As we try to change, we will discover within us a fierce struggle between our loyalty to that battle-scarred victim of his own childhood, our father, and the father we want to be. We must meet our childhood father at close range: get to know him, learn to forgive him, and somehow, go beyond him.

Augustus Napier

#26. Declare what you honestly want and live that vision fearlessly.

Mick Napier

#27. Improvisation is the art of being completely O.K. with not knowing what the f - you're doing

Mick Napier

#28. Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

Augustus Y. Napier

#29. Once I asked Teichman what he thought of Bird's chess: "Same as his health," he replied, "always alternating between being dangerously ill and dangerously well."

William Ewart Napier

#30. Not only do our wives need support, but our children need our deep involvement in their lives. If this period [the early years] ofprimitive needs and primitive caretaking passes without us, it is lost forever. We can be involved in other ways, but never again on this profoundly intimate level.

Augustus Napier

#31. And one battle looks much like another when you survey the corpses after.

William Napier

#32. Don't try to sneak in through the window. Just come boldly onto stage, like come right through the door with your choice. Kill the judge in your head and just take action.

Mick Napier

#33. Marriage is going to be that happy state in which we get all of the nurturance and care and love and empathy and even good advice that we didn't receive from our families.

Augustus Y. Napier

#34. Visitors at the zoo indulge in transports of delight at the way an elephant reaches for an apple with it's trunk....but give not a moments thought to the ineffable capabilities of their own hands.

John Russell Napier

#35. A substantial daily intake of alcohol was the perfect way to stay in shape.

Simon Napier-Bell