Top 100 Schwartz Quotes
#1. The more comfortable we become with being stupid, the deeper we will wade into the unknown and the more likely we are to make big discoveries
Martin A. Schwartz
#2. Then it dawned on me that no one else was going to believe in me until I believed in myself.
David J. Schwartz
#4. How are we to spend our lives, anyway? That is the real question. We read to seek the answer, and the search itself
the task of a lifetime
becomes the answer.
Lynne Sharon Schwartz
#5. The most important thing in making money is not letting your losses get out of hand.
Martin S. Schwartz
#6. Dietz and Schwartz have sort of fallen by the wayside a little bit, and they are up there with Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin and Cole Porter. They are the finest of the revue composers - their stuff is so good and so strong.
Douglas Carter Beane
#7. When you follow your heart instead of worrying about how to fatten your bank account, you can attract more ways to do both.
Daylle Deanna Schwartz
#8. 'Rescue From Gilligan's Island' was the first of the so-called reunion shows on the networks, getting a 54 share. With numbers like that, everybody else started to have reunion shows.
Sherwood Schwartz
#10. The essential achievement of the will is to attend to one object and hold it clear and strong before the mind, letting all others-its rivals for attention and subsequent action-fade away like starlight swamped by the radiance of the Sun.
Jeffrey M. Schwartz
#11. My dear Mr. Schwartz, you appeared in the nick of time. It might have been a drama on the stage! I am very much in your debt.
Agatha Christie
#12. The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
Jack Schwartz
#13. On the contrary, it's a way to make sure that you can continue to experience pleasure. What's the point of great meals, great wines, and great blouses if they don't make you feel great?
Barry Schwartz
#14. The thing about Stephen Schwartz is that, while it may be difficult to learn - it's a little bit like[Stephen] Sondheim; Sondheim is quite difficult to learn - but, once you have it in you: it never leaves you. It becomes some of your favorite music; it really does.
Kerry Ellis
#15. Life is too short to waste. Dreams are fulfilled only through action, not through endless planning to take action.
David J. Schwartz
#16. If you don't have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don't have much at all.
Morrie Schwartz.
#17. Look at things not as they are, but as they can be. Visualization adds value to everything. A big thinker always visualizes what can be done in the future. He isn't stuck with the present
David J. Schwartz
#18. If sports are the toy department of life, then the NFL is the FAO Schwartz of sports.
Margaret Mead
#19. Taking improv has helped every other aspect of my field.
Ben Schwartz
#20. I don't like it to be compared to 'Survivor.' The idea of 'Survivor' is to kill each other off to win the prize. There's no killing in Gilligan's Island.
Sherwood Schwartz
#21. I don't believe in condescending to children. I don't change any writing technique.
Stephen Schwartz
#22. What we don't realize is that the very option of being allowed to change our minds seems to increase the chances that we will change our minds.
Barry Schwartz
#24. I can remember standing in the middle of the field after the race and seeing the American flag raised and hearing 'The Star Spangled Banner' and all the people singing it. Then I walked off the field and just kind of enjoyed the feeling.
Elizabeth Robinson Schwartz
#26. A lot of people say television holds up a mirror to life, and that's why you see all the drug busts and the killings and the seamier side of life. I personally take the view that it's not sufficient to portray only negative role models. It's not enough to say 'no' to drugs. What do you say 'yes' to?
Sherwood Schwartz
#27. Think first class about everyone around you, and you'll receive first-class results in return.
David J. Schwartz
#28. Believing something can be done sets the mind in motion to find a way to do it.
David J. Schwartz
#32. Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
Morrie Schwartz.
#34. In the best of all possible worlds, February 14 is a pleasant and sentimental opportunity to lavish your partner with attention or move your relationship to the next level.
Pepper Schwartz
#35. I want to grow. I don't want to get stuck doing the same thing over and over and think I'm the best at it.
Gerry Schwartz
#36. Breakthrough Advertising is not about building better mousetraps. It is, however, about building larger mice - and then building a terrifying fear of them in your customers.
Eugene Schwartz
#37. The greatest mistake marketers make is trying to create demand.
Eugene Schwartz
#38. There are no mistakes in life, only stepping stones to the path you were meant to be on!
Heather Schwartz
#39. If you're going to stab a man, at least have the courtesy to look him in the eyes while you do it. -- Dacey Sinnett
Dez Schwartz
#40. identify the cravings for what they are - a desire to feel better right now.
Jeffrey M. Schwartz
#41. In a world of scarcity, opportunities don't present themselves in bunches, and the decisions people face are between approach and avoidance, acceptance or rejection.
Barry Schwartz
#42. Parables, yes. We here are to lead life with woe. Tasting bitter.
the Tai Chi instructor
Lynne Sharon Schwartz
#43. Having the opportunity to choose is no blessing if we feel we do not have the wherewithal to choose wisely.
Barry Schwartz
#44. Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another
Morrie Schwartz.
#45. I have done what people do, my life makes a reasonable showing. Can I go back to my books now?
Lynne Sharon Schwartz
#46. Start a new fashion, wear your heart on your sleeveSometimes you reach what's real just by making believeUnafraid, unashamedThere is joy to be claimed in this worldYou even might wind up being glad to be you.
Stephen Schwartz
#48. We know we want to support our troops. We want to make sure that they have all the equipment they need.
Allyson Schwartz
#49. When you say the name Gilligan, you know who that is. If a show is good, if it's written well, you should be able to erase the names of the characters saying the lines and still be able to know who said it. If you can't do that, the show will fail.
Sherwood Schwartz
#50. The characters are that vague TV high school age, but they'll be in high school as long as we need them to be.
Josh Schwartz
#52. Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.
Morrie Schwartz.
#54. What kind of performance would your car deliver if every morning before you left for work you scooped up a double handful of dirt and put it into your crankcase? That fine engine would soon be a mess, unable to do what you want it to do.
David J. Schwartz
#56. You win when you refuse to fight petty people. Fighting little people reduces you to their size.
David J. Schwartz
#57. Ten-year plan? No, three-year plan! I'm in a hurry.
Josh Schwartz
#58. The support that we have from the network in terms of watching us at an unusual time in the year and playing our episodes three times in a given week until we built an audience ... is exceptional.
Josh Schwartz
#59. We give disproportionate weight to whether yogurt is said to be five percent fat or 95 percent fat free. People seem to think that yogurt that is 95 percent fat free is a more healthful product than yogurt that has five percent fat.
Barry Schwartz
#60. How you think determines how you act. How you act in turn determines how others react to you.
David J. Schwartz
#61. Is it not clear that a reviewer's psyche, like an iceberg, is seven-eighths beneath the surface?
Delmore Schwartz
#62. There is your audience. There is the language. There are the words that they use.
Eugene Schwartz
#63. For me, living means I can be responsive to the other person. It means I can show my emotions and my feelings. Talk to them. Feel with them ...
Morrie Schwartz.
#64. To gain the respect of others, you must first think you deserve respect. And the more respect you have for yourself, the more respect others will have for you.
David J. Schwartz
#65. Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land.
Jack Schwartz
#66. It would hurt. But we'll dust ourselves off and we'll come back.
Gerry Schwartz
#67. Each connection that neuroscientists forged between a neurochemical and a behavior, or at least a propensity toward a behavior, seemed to deal another blow to the notion of an efficacious will.
Jeffrey M. Schwartz
#68. Israel is now sustaining a war for its own existence. A nation defending its citizens against terrorist bombings and a military and diplomatic onslaught by an array of Arab foes is practicing survival, not genocide.
Jack Schwartz
#69. I was coming off of The O.C. and had very little interest in doing another teen drama. And then I got sent theGossip Girl book series, and I was like, 'I might not be ready to leave high school after all.'
Josh Schwartz
#70. Once I heard a young paratrooper instructor explain, "The jump really isn't so bad. It's the waiting to jump that gets a fellow.
David J. Schwartz
#71. Palestinian ideology has become a lethal cocktail of radical nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism.
Jack Schwartz
#72. The word dyting is not synonymous with the word useless
Mitch Albom
#73. Just because you really like something, doesn't mean you can do it.
Tina P. Schwartz
#74. More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.
Jack Schwartz
#75. I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason
Bringing something we must learn
And we are led to those who help us most to grow
If we let them and we help them in return.
Stephen Schwartz
#76. Simply put, drilling in ANWR would be expensive, environmentally devastating, and would do very little to fix our energy crisis or to bring down the price of oil and gasoline.
Allyson Schwartz
#77. Time is the fire in which we burn. - Delmore Schwartz
Connie Willis
#79. Writers would submit scripts to me, and if I liked one well enough to submit to magazine editors, I had the know-how whether the story was good or bad.
Julius Schwartz
#80. THERE WAS NEVER A SCHINDLER'S LIST. It was drawn up by a man called Goldman. This man took money to put a name on that list - no money, no place on the list. I was told this by a Dr Schwartz, in Vienna; he had paid in diamonds to save his wife
Emilie Schindler
#83. Often we treat certain aspects of ourselves as junk, having no value. We try to throw parts of ourselves in the garbage. But a human being is an ecosystem, and everything in that system is of value to the whole.
Stephen Schwartz
#84. emotional cost of potential trade-offs does more than just diminish our sense of satisfaction with a decision. It also interferes with the quality of decisions themselves.
Barry Schwartz
#85. I think it's always super exciting to watch something before you can see it in theaters.
Ben Schwartz
#86. I applaud the American Cancer Society for all they do to eradicate smoking. Their local, state and national efforts help to discourage young people from taking up this deadly habit and the resources they provide have helped numerous smokers quit.
Allyson Schwartz
#87. How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.
Barry Schwartz
#89. There is no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness. These things" -he sighed- "these things I so regret in my life. Pride. Vanity. Why do we do the things we do?
Morrie Schwartz
Mitch Albom
#91. What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child?
Delmore Schwartz
#92. We just happened to come along at time where there hadn't been a new young adult drama that also could appeal to adults as well in quite some time. We sort of found a little bit of a niche.
Josh Schwartz
#93. Going to the doctor - at least this doctor - was like going to the hairdresser. The client (patient) has to let the professional know what she wants out of each visit. The patient is in charge.
Barry Schwartz
#94. The best way to deal with that is to live in a fully conscious, compassionate, loving way. Don't wait until you're on your deathbed to recognize that this is the only way to live.
Morrie Schwartz.
#96. we cannot know what really happens, but only what we observe to happen.
Jeffrey M. Schwartz
#97. We've got customers. We've got suppliers. We've got employees. We've got unions. We've got communities. We've got all of these things that go into making up whether a business succeeds or fails.
Gerry Schwartz
#98. The 20th century taught us how far unbridled evil can and will go when the world fails to confront it. It is time that we heed the lessons of the 20th century and stand up to these murderers. It is time that we end genocide in the 21st century.
Allyson Schwartz
#99. Intention governs attention, and attention exerts real, physical effects on the dynamics of the brain.
Jeffrey M. Schwartz
