Rackham's Quotes

#1. Our religious systems have taught us to "train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it." (Proverbs 22:6) I couldn't disagree more. How about, "feed a child what it needs, so when it gets grows up, it will "be" its own unique unpredictably creative self.

Christopher Zzenn Loren

#2. The most important advance in selling for many years

Neil Rackham

#3. Successful people ask a lot more questions during sales calls than do their less successful colleagues. We found that these less successful people tend to do most of the talking.

Neil Rackham

#4. Still, in the end, we all die just the same.

Haruki Murakami

#5. Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones.

Arthur Rackham

#6. [On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice ...

Queen Victoria

#7. My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.

Frederik Pohl

#8. The world is full of grief - to the exact degree we allow ourselves to love other people. (Mazer Rackham)

Orson Scott Card

#9. Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.

Orson Scott Card

#10. N MY early boyhood I was enraptured by the great fairytale illustrators of the period: Arthur Rackham, Edmond Dulac, Kay Nielsen. As a schoolboy, I was to discover Aubrey Beardsley, and I was extremely fond of an edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream with most imaginative drawings by Heath Robinson,

John Gielgud

#11. Ender grinned back. "Teacher," he said. "Do you have a name?" "Mazer Rackham," said the old man.

Orson Scott Card

#12. I'm not broke. Like everybody else, I owe money.

Marlee Matlin

#13. Unhealthy love can make fools of women. It causes us to forgive the unforgivable. It twists our feelings into a macabre parody of actual love until we think that our unhealthy emotions are the real deal and not a sick obsession.

Carry Lowe

#14. You have only one life, don't waste your life, fulfilling others dream.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. William pouts irritably. Socialism is not the same thing as letting one's servants muddle towards anarchy. But never mind, never mind: on a day like today, it's not worth worrying over. Soon the servant question, at least in William Rackham's household, will be resolved beyond any ambiguity.

Michel Faber

#16. Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.

Lord Acton

#17. my religion is home and all that attends it.

David Guterson

#18. It's a lot easier to sabotage your career than to have a career to sabotage.

Win Butler

#19. When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they're full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don't consider the past. And they don't worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.

Bodhidharma

#20. I learned early on to stay away from gossip magazines and reviews. That stuff just makes you unhappy, and I know actors that read everything that's written about them and they're miserable. You can choose what to let into your life.

John Travolta

#21. For children in their most impressionable years, there is, in fantasy, the highest of stimulating and educational powers.

Arthur Rackham

#22. If you would have fought like a man you wouldn't have to die like a dog."
(Anne Bonny to John "Calico Jack" Rackham)

Anne Bonny

#23. There may be questions still unanswered, but that means that we need science, not that science is useless [...] There are fish in the sea as yet uncaught, but that does not mean that fishing nets have failed and should be thrown aside.

Frances Hardinge

#24. Is your sales call so valuable that your client would write a check for your visit?

Neil Rackham

#25. Pirates almost never sailed with women. Just four or five are known to have worked as pirates during the Golden Age. Two of them - Mary Read and Anne Bonny - became famous, dressing as men and fighting alongside one of the most celebrated of all pirate captains, 'Calico' Jack Rackham.

Robert Kurson

#26. A truly modern man, William Rackham is what might be called a superstitious atheist Christian; that is, he believes in a God who, while He may no longer be responsible for the sun rising, the saving of the Queen or the provision of daily bread, is still the prime suspect when anything goes wrong.

Michel Faber