Stuart Chase Quotes

#1. Citizens of a modern society need [ ... ] more than that ordinary "common sense" which was defined by Stuart Chase as that which tells you that the world is flat.

S.I. Hayakawa

#2. The best mental effort in the game of business is concentrated on the major problem of securing the consumer's dollar before the other fellow gets it.

Stuart Chase

#3. The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.

Confucius

#4. I longed to stabilize my core identity and to withstand the pressure of other people's words, behaviors, moods, and perceptions. I wanted to be less easily thrown.

Merri Lisa Johnson

#5. Common sense tells us that the world is flat, that the sun goes around the earth, that heavy bodies always fall faster than light bodies, that boats made of iron will sink.

Stuart Chase

#6. We give our time away all day long, to emotions that gain us no advantages, to people who do not value our time, to inefficient habits. If you want to take back this time, you need to cut to the chase.

Stuart R. Levine

#7. I went to prep school, Eton and Oxford. When people hear that, they think they know you, and you think: 'No, you don't.'

Harry Lloyd

#8. You can only chase a butterfly for so long.

Jane Yolen

#9. He would like to get out of his own body for a while; he'd like to be somebody else.

Margaret Atwood

#10. Common sense is that which tells us the world is flat.

Stuart Chase

#11. Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.

Stuart Chase

#12. I shall strive to inculculate in my men the spirit of the chase.

J. E. B. Stuart

#13. Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.

Stuart Chase

#14. We live in an ocean of words, but like a fish in water we are often not aware of it.

Stuart Chase

#15. it just feels like i'm on the outside somehow. not all the time, just sometimes. but yeah, i feel irrelevant and i hate that

Becky Albertalli

#16. The violation of some laws is a normal part of the behavior of every citizen.

Stuart Chase

#17. I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside.

Stuart Chase

#18. Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.

Stuart Chase

#19. The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

Stuart Chase

#20. The decline is in paper values, not in tangible goods and services ... America is now in the eighth year of prosperity as commercially defined. The former great periods of prosperity in America averaged eleven years. On this basis we now have three more years to go before the tailspin.

Stuart Chase

#21. Your liberty to swing your arms ends where my nose begins.

Stuart Chase

#22. For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Stuart Chase

#23. Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried.

Stuart Chase

#24. Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.

Stuart Chase

#25. Individual talent is too sporadic and unpredictable to be allowed any important part in the organization society. Social systems which endure are built on the average person who can be trained to occupy any position adequately if not brilliantly.

Stuart Chase

#26. I'm mad emotional. But my emotions are - I don't really get just like sad, I get hyper, and I be like mad, and I get hungry - that's like my main emotion.

Vince Staples