Top 34 Skolnik Quotes
#1. There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you've got to be able to test it. So theories are one thing, testing is another.
Brian Schmidt
#2. Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.
Carolyn G. Heilbrun
#3. I will go to my grave wishing that I did more. Wishing that I didn't sleep as much. Wishing that I didn't waste so much time. Wishing that I fought harder.
Michael Skolnik
#4. Go to countries where you don't speak the language. Eat food that looks like you may not like it. Read all of the holy books.
Michael Skolnik
#5. I am certainly vulnerable when I sit down with parents who have lost their children to gun violence. The emotion that they experience is so foreign to me that I find it very hard to say the right things.
Michael Skolnik
#6. Let us not aspire to four-year goals but rather forty-year goals.
Michael Skolnik
#7. Do ballet and play football. Sing and dance. Laugh and cry.
Michael Skolnik
#8. It's every girl's dream to be a cover girl!
Rihanna
#9. No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments.
Dmitri Mendeleev
#10. History teaches us that there have been but few infringements of personal liberty by the state which have not been justified, as they are here, in the name of righteousness and the public good, and few which have not been directed, as they are now, at politically helpless minorities.
Harlan F. Stone
#11. I wanted to tell stories about people who didn't have the chance to tell their own.
Michael Skolnik
#13. I think we have the potential to connect the world in a way that can save hundred of millions of lives. That should be our goal.
Michael Skolnik
#14. If you can't have another ally," I said at last, "next best thing is to give your enemy another enemy.
Benedict Jacka
#15. Fighting for social justice is not about leaving the mainstream. It is about being right in the middle of it.
Michael Skolnik
#16. I can express no better hope for my country than that the kind Providence which smiled upon our fathers may enable their children to preserve the blessings they have inherited.
Franklin Pierce
#17. Leadership is about calling people to do things beyond themselves.
David Gergen
#18. I just try to walk the walk. I try to live every day with the utmost honesty and integrity to myself and the people around me.
Michael Skolnik
#19. I believe that it is my job to fight for the rights of others to have the same rights that I take for granted. As a white, American male, I have had it quite good. I recognize that and fight every day for everyone to have the same opportunities that I have had.
Michael Skolnik
#20. There, as the sacred mysteries tell us, the Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones occupy the first places; but, unable to yield to them, and impatient of any second place, let us emulate their dignity and glory. And, if we will it, we shall be inferior to them in nothing.
Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola
#21. Stop the bullsh*t. Stop drawing lines in the sand like previous generations [have done].
Michael Skolnik
#22. After a while, just staying alive becomes a full-time job. No wonder we need a vacation.
Michael Zadoorian
#23. I think leading by example is important, as I know the next generation is watching us.
Michael Skolnik
#24. I think that our popular theology has gained in decorum, and not in principle, over the superstitions it has displaced.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#25. I don't focus on the results. Put my head down, put my hoodie up, and do the work.
Michael Skolnik
#26. I have been so damn lucky to be able to do what I love my entire life. I never take that for granted.
Michael Skolnik
#27. I know our kids will be OK, as long as they listen more to their mother than to me!
Michael Skolnik
#28. Women are half the population and they know how to take care of themselves, if they are only given access to health care.
Cynthia Nixon
#30. When a young person is not eating three meals a day but still getting perfect grades at school, or when a young person deals with trauma at a young age yet still makes it to college, these are the things that inspire me.
Michael Skolnik
#31. We can live nuanced, complicated, exciting lives with no reason for limitation.
Michael Skolnik
#32. Wake up ! This ain't war between good and evil anymore.
This is war between good people for their respective survival.
Whoever lose in this war, will be remembered as the evil one.
Toba Beta
#33. I am deeply inspired by the courage and achievements of young people who didn't have the safety nets I had growing up.
Michael Skolnik
#34. When you make movies, you have to be preoccupied with the social problems, otherwise there is no point in making a movie. To have a story, you need a social problem. Not necessarily a problem, but something to get the idea for a story, otherwise there's no story.
Bruno Dumont
