Quotes About Making Generalizations

#1. I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical nature to things, so you don't want to start making generalizations about how bad things have become in comparison to the old days.

Jeffrey Jones

#2. I have a shallow understanding of what it means to be alive, and I know certain things about parenting and being a wife and doing the school run. I know little bits, but I'm really a paddler on a beach.

Tamsin Greig

#3. What others think about you is none of your business.

Jack Canfield

#4. Well, I'm not a crook.

Richard M. Nixon

#5. The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.

Martin Buber

#6. When I first played at the Apollo, the owner didn't even know who Sharon Jones was. The Apollo had never seen so many white people coming uptown.

Sharon Jones

#7. Poor people have the blues because they're poor and hungry. Rich people can't sleep at night because they're trying to hold on to their money and everything they have.

John Lee Hooker

#8. Relationship and connection happen in an indefinable space between people, a space that will never be fully known or understood by us.

Stephen King

#9. Did you ever notice that most of us relate to our lives like we have no control or say over them? Especially in areas where we're not proud. We speak about ourselves like we're reporting on the weather, making sweeping generalizations...And boy do we ever believe our own 'forecasts.

Lauren Handel Zander

#10. My secret heroes were Joe Morello, Ray Charles - who is, in my opinion, the most dominant figure in musical history in the 21st century - and Frank Sinatra. Those are my heroes. And as a writer, when Bob Dylan came along, it was a miracle because he gave us all permission to say anything!

J. D. Souther

#11. Failure was a key element to my life's journey.

Paul Tudor Jones

#12. We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily available resource for all of life is our public library system.

David McCullough

#13. As economists like to say, the plural of "anecdote" is not "data.

Robert Lane Greene

#14. It makes sense that there's a family history for your condition," he said. "Do you eat all of the men in the family? Where do they go? Does this house have a basement?" Blue stood up. "It's like boot camp. They can't hack it. Poor things." "Poor me," he said.

Maggie Stiefvater