Top 100 Steinberg Quotes
#1. I was so lucky that I didn't have anyone to copy, be impressed by. I had developed my own style, I was creating before I knew there was a Thurber, a Benchley, a Price and a Steinberg. I never saw their work until I was around thirty.
Shel Silverstein
#2. David Steinberg was the reason the Smothers Brothers got cancelled.
Dave Foley
#3. The stories of The End of Free Love mark a great beginning. They are seductive and migratory, tapped into our earliest sense of the world. Steinberg inhabits our first bewilderments, the terrors and the tenderness that shape our lives. To read her is to fall out of the daily into a fresh elation.
Noy Holland
#4. There's a cover for every pot, but I've never seen so many mismatched pots and covers in all my life. - Ellen Wasserfeldman, from Notes from Ellen Wasserfeldman by Alisa Dana Steinberg
Alisa Steinberg
#6. I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. He's very original, very accurate and acute.
Helen Vendler
#7. Dean's wife, Judith Steinberg, made a rare appearance with Dean. She's a doctor, so I guess they brought her in to stop the hemorrhaging.
Jay Leno
#8. In addition, Steinberg has found that adolescence is especially rough on parents who don't have an outside interest, whether it be work or a hobby, to absorb their interests as their child is pulling away.
Jennifer Senior
#9. No matter how much you want to be self-sufficient and alone, there is a natural human impulse to need something more than that.
Jonathan E. Steinberg
#10. When I talk to Steve Martin, he's joyful when he talks about comedy.
David Steinberg
#11. As for football in L.A., it's going to take a loooong time before another team comes here.
Leigh Steinberg
#12. Adolescents need to be reassured that nothing-neither their growing maturity, their moods, their misbehavior, nor your anger at something they have done-can shake your basic commitment to them.
Laurence Steinberg
#13. The police and the vulnerable are natural allies. That they are so is counterintuitive and strange, for they also loathe one another.
Jonny Steinberg
#14. Challenge yourself, its fine not to be a totally finished person.
Leigh Steinberg
#15. Remember where you are and adjust yourself accordingly, not vice-versa ... otherwise, you might be toast.
Alisa Steinberg
#16. every 'no' is one step closer to a 'yes'. And I know that greatness was never achieved by playing it safe.
Linda Steinberg
#17. Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction.
Saul Steinberg
#18. Many people with Dissociative Disorders are very creative and used their creative capacities to help them cope with childhood trauma.p55
Marlene Steinberg
#19. The believer in God has to account for the existence of unjust suffering; the atheist has to account for everything else.
Milton Steinberg
#21. When it comes to holdouts, there's a presupposition that the player is some angry rebel who's defying authority and only cares about the money.
Leigh Steinberg
#22. The only thing certain about any negotiation is that it will lead to another
negotiation .
Leigh Steinberg
#23. Whatever else art is good for, its chief effectiveness lies in propagating more art.
Leo Steinberg
#24. The Super Bowl is like a movie, and the quarterback is the leading man.
Leigh Steinberg
#25. The worst thing that can happen to a comedian is to do a documentary on your life and you're watching it with an audience and there's not a laugh.
David Steinberg
#26. Now some alien force seems to have come and captured the Dodgers. I don't know what happened to my Dodgers.
Leigh Steinberg
#28. Well, when you've had Tom Cruise play you, anything else is a comedown.
Leigh Steinberg
#29. Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.
Leigh Steinberg
#31. School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.
Leigh Steinberg
#32. So George Burns and my grandpa took me to my first baseball game.
Leigh Steinberg
#33. Comedians talk to other comedians the way jazz musicians can talk to each other.
David Steinberg
#34. Mental Note #50: The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, even though it most desperately wants to. - Notes from Ellen Wasserfeldman
Alisa Steinberg
#35. I used to have a theory actually that, if you've had a good childhood, a good marriage and a little bit of money in the bank, you're going to make a lousy comedian.
David Steinberg
#36. His elegant librarianship ... made me appreciate how order is created: Not through grand schemes - to which I was often drawn - but by small graceful actions, repeated often and refined with time.
Avi Steinberg
#37. If a work of art or a new style disturbs you, then it is probably good work. If you hate it, it is probably great.
Leo Steinberg
#38. Some adolescents are troubled and some get into trouble. But the great majority (almost nine out of ten) do not ... The bottomline is that good kids don't suddenly go bad in adolescence.
Laurence Steinberg
#39. Being an idealist is not being a simpleton; without idealists there would be no optimism and without optimism there would be no courage to achieve advances that so-called realists would have you believe could never come to fruition.
Alisa Steinberg
#40. The NFL today has bigger, stronger, bodies than ever, moving faster than ever, hitting a stationary object harder than ever before - so the physics of the hit have changed.
Leigh Steinberg
#42. Services should not be confused with organizations or IT units within the company. For example, a NOC (Network Operations Center) is not a service. The NOC itself could deliver a service such as Monitoring, Incident Response or Event Management services.
Randy A. Steinberg
#43. The one thing an audience always has in common with a comedian is troubles. The Yiddish word for that is tsuris. You're always putting your tsuris on stage whether you like it or not. No one is untroubled, unless they're just, you know, an imbecile.
David Steinberg
#44. The thing about stand-ups is you can't really get good unless you're failing in front of a large number of people. That makes stand-up comedy unique: you need a tremendous amount of reserve within you to take the rejection from the audience, and without it, you can't do anything.
David Steinberg
#45. A player cannot be part of the training camp experience as a rookie unless he is signed to a contract.
Leigh Steinberg
#46. Time is so long when there is suffering and so short when there is happiness.
Manny Steinberg
#47. The parent-adolescent relationship is like a partnership in which the senior partner (the parent) has more expertise in many areasbut looks forward to the day when the junior partner (the adolescent) will take over the business of running his or her own life.
Laurence Steinberg
#48. Now we're getting a whole generation of kids who have never had a football team in L.A., so they don't miss it and don't ask for it. It becomes self-perpetuating. They don't know what they're missing.
Leigh Steinberg
#49. Now maybe that Arizona incident will make sense to you. I had to get out of that apartment, because if I had stayed in that situation I would have switched, and then all of you would've known the secret that I've kept for so, so long.
Marlene Steinberg
#50. My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out.
Leigh Steinberg
#52. Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.
Leigh Steinberg
#53. Hey, our Founding Fathers wore long hair and powdered wigs - I don't see anybody trying to look like them today, either ... But we do look to them as role models.
Leigh Steinberg
#54. Many high-functioning multiples are gifted writers and artists, who, as they heal, are able to find an aesthetic outlet for the sealed-off rage and pain they have not allowed themselves to feel.
Marlene Steinberg
#55. Let your child be the teenager he or she wants to be, not the adolescent you were or wish you had been.
Laurence Steinberg
#57. Well, my favorite sport as a kid was clearly baseball.
Leigh Steinberg
#58. Harvard was a lovely assisted-living facility from which I'd emerged, like my classmates, stupider and more confident.
Avi Steinberg
#59. Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you're working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week.
David Steinberg
#60. Then there were so many things to be said that they did not speak of any of them.
Milton Steinberg
#61. The whole idea of doing the Hollywood thing never even occurred to me. When you grow up on the East coast, Hollywood seems like this fantasy land and you don't think that people can actually make a living there.
David Steinberg
#63. Peer pressure is not a monolithic force that presses adolescents into the same mold ... Adolescents generally choose friend whose values, attitudes, tastes, and families are similar to their own. In short, good kids rarely go bad because of their friends.
Laurence Steinberg
#64. I have to say that it was a very strange experience when, later in life, I represented Byron Scott and was negotiating with West - whose picture I used to have over my bed! That took some getting used to.
Leigh Steinberg
#65. A spontaneous interview feels differently than anything else you see on television.
David Steinberg
#66. I just knew that economics had never been my big motivation.
Leigh Steinberg
#67. It's learning how to negotiate to keep both sides happy - whether it's for a multi-million dollar contract or just which show to watch on TV, that determines the quality and enjoyment of our lives.
Leigh Steinberg
#68. Stop," she shrieked, "stop trying to make it easier."
"But we do not love each other. We never have..."
"You mean," she screamed, "you have never loved me.
Milton Steinberg
#69. A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx.
Saul Steinberg
#71. Early identification of patients who suffer from dissociative symptoms and disorders is essential for successful treatment, because these disorders do not resolve spontaneously.
Marlene Steinberg
#72. There is a time lag between the activation of brain systems that excite our emotions and impulses and the maturation of brain systems that allow us to check these feelings and urgings - it's like driving a car with a sensitive gas pedal and bad brakes.
Laurence Steinberg
#73. On this subject, U.S. Air Force spokesman James W. Moseley argued, "Those tabloid papers and cult magazines have been raving about this stuff for years, and it's just not true!
Gene Steinberg
#74. That is the fantastic intolerable paradox of my life, that I have gone questing for what I possessed initially -- a belief to invest my days with dignity and meaning, a pattern of behavior through which man might most articulately express his devotion to his fellows.
Milton Steinberg
#75. It is in the nature of original contemporary art to present itself as a bad risk. And we the public ... should be proud of being in this predicament, because nothing else would seem to us quite true to life; and art, after all, is supposed to be a mirror of life.
Leo Steinberg
#76. People who have addictive problems usually have some subset of emotional difficulties that causes them to abuse substances.
Leigh Steinberg
#77. There are not so many murders in this township, I think to myself, and not so few policemen, that a killing should be treated like an old woman who has lost her cat.
Jonny Steinberg
#78. But the equipment to protect the players hasn't developed along with that, so now you have more players out with worse injuries, for longer periods of time.
Leigh Steinberg
#79. The odd thing about comedy is that the more personal you are, the larger the audience.
David Steinberg
#80. Jewish nationalism means no more than recognition of the peoplehood of Israel, and of the propriety of that people's being a religio-cultural group in America, a nationality in Eastern Europe, and in Palestine an actualized nation.
Milton Steinberg
#81. The critic interested in a novel manifestation holds his criteria and taste in reserve. Since they were formed upon yesterday's art, he does not assume that they are ready-made for today.
Leo Steinberg
#82. Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche.
Leigh Steinberg
#83. Cameron was able to get an inside look at professional football from the standpoint of athletes and agents and general managers that few people have ever seen.
Leigh Steinberg
#84. The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.
Saul Steinberg
#85. Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government.
Neil Steinberg
#86. As I write in my book, there is a misnomer that destroying another person's position is an effective and practical way to negotiate.
Leigh Steinberg
#87. One way to cope with the provocations of novel art is to rest firm and maintain solid standards ... set by the critic's long-practiced taste and by his conviction that only those innovations will be significant which promote the established direction of advanced art.
Leo Steinberg
#88. To improve chances of success, you want to build a project or product where you think you're filling a hole. Part of the trick is showing people things that they either a) haven't seen in a long time or b) things they haven't seen before.
Scott Steinberg
#89. Yet for quixotic reasons
namely, that I enjoyed writing obits
I had decided to scale back on articles about city life in order to write exclusively about the city's dead. For even less money. It was a strange and inexplicable career move.
Avi Steinberg
#90. The whole concept of negotiating is intimidating to many people.
Leigh Steinberg
#92. Parents sometimes feel that if they don't criticize their child, their child will never learn. Criticism doesn't make people wantto change; it makes them defensive.
Laurence Steinberg
#93. My father was a rabbi and had a little synagogue in Canada, so I'm from Canada. I left there at 16.
David Steinberg
#94. The public probably knows that teen drivers are at greater risk for fatal accidents. What the public doesn't know is what we ought to do about it.
Laurence Steinberg
#95. Then the Angels came in 1961, and I fell in love with them.
Leigh Steinberg
#96. There are realities about what it is to be a woman in this world that are born from social convention. No matter how far away you are from civilization, you can't fully get away from that.
Jonathan E. Steinberg
#97. It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have totally changed from your first day of school.
Leigh Steinberg
#98. Work needs to be a reflection of your social values. You are how you work!
Leigh Steinberg
#99. I don't need no Smith and Wesson, man, I got Merriam and Webster.
Avi Steinberg
#100. Then I went to UCLA - so of course I became a huge Bruin basketball fan ... and later came to football.
Leigh Steinberg
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