Rheta Childe Dorr Quotes

#1. A great deal of unnecessarily bad golf is played in this world.

Harry Vardon

#2. Better to feel nothing, to be numb, than to lose control. It's the only way I know to deal with it.

Julie Kagawa

#3. The artist alone among men knows what true humility means. His reach forever exceeds his grasp. He can never be satisfied with his work. He knows when he has done well, but he knows he has never attained his dream. He knows he never can.

Rheta Childe Dorr

#4. The theory [before the twentieth century] ... was that all the jobs in the world belonged by right to men, and that only men were by nature entitled to wages. If a woman earned money, outside domestic service, it was because some misfortune had deprived her of masculine protection.

Rheta Childe Dorr

#5. A mind, if given only the best food never craves any other.

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#6. I wrote a great deal of verse. In fact, every time I fell in love, which was rather often, I burst into the emotional sort of thing which is perennially salable.

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#7. It was easier to tell hero from villain when the stakes were only life and death. Everything in between gets harder.

Maggie Stiefvater

#8. Everyone talks about moderation. How about some moderation in moderation?

Ashwin Sanghi

#9. Feminism never harmed anybody unless it was some feminists. The danger is that the study and contemplation of "ourselves" may become so absorbing that it builds by slow degrees a high wall that shuts out the great world of thought.

Rheta Childe Dorr

#10. Feminism, like Boston, is a state of mind. It is the state of mind of women who realize that their whole position in the social order is antiquated, as a woman cooking over an open fire with heavy iron pots would know that her entire housekeeping was out of date.

Rheta Childe Dorr

#11. Positive attitude is the foundation of your life - and the determining factor of your ability to serve.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#12. Feminism differs from reform of any kind, even franchise reform. Feminists, I should say, are not reformers at all, but ratherintellectual biologists and psychologists.

Rheta Childe Dorr

#13. Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.

Robert Reich

#14. A path is something you create as you walk it. The ground you've trodden hardens, and that's what forms your path. You're the only one who can create your own path. Walk on your own. If you haven't given up yet, that is. -Cross Marian

Katsura Hoshino

#15. There was never any question with me as to which I would choose, my boy or my work. I had to have both.

Rheta Childe Dorr

#16. From the cross-cultural hermeneutical point of view, there is just one philosophy, which has been practiced at various times and places around the world. From this perspective, comparing Nietzsche and Zen is not fundamentally different from comparing Nietzsche to Plato.

Andre Van Der Braak

#17. I knew I wanted to be permanently self-supporting and I vaguely thought I might work somewhere in the realm of ideas. I felt that I had within me an undeveloped fount of ideas. I did not know exactly what my ideas were, but whatever they were I wanted to convert people to them.

Rheta Childe Dorr

#18. It's easy for the thought-leader and executive classes to embrace a 'do what you love and love what you do' philosophy when they are wealthy enough to work hard only voluntarily, and when their jobs grant them status.

Alex Pareene