Tookish Yiddish Quotes

#1. I don't profess to know how to balance the positive and the negative media attention. It's a gamble every time you put yourself out there, and, certainly, I'm always readjusting to it.

Scarlett Johansson

#2. It is the lot of mankind to feel not only insecure but also bored. To combat that experience, people long to be passively entertained, which requires less effort than assuming responsibility for self-improvement.

Thomas Szasz

#3. What his uncle does not understand is that in walking backwards, his back to the world, his back to God, he is not grieving. He is objecting. Because when everything cherished by you in life has been taken away, what else is there to do but object?

Yann Martel

#4. Leonid Breznev was an old man and despite his own military experience in World War II, he on the other hand was not very close to the military.

Helmut Schmidt

#5. It's easy to say young people should believe in themselves, but the number one thing is recognizing that it's a journey, that you have to build confidence in yourself.

Andrew Shue

#6. His mind has become a refuge for old thoughts, idle, indigent, with nowhere else to go. He ought to chase them out, sweep the premises clean. But he does not care to do so, or does not care enough(72).

J.M. Coetzee

#7. A man's profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.

Charles Caleb Colton

#8. Of England's patrician class, the author writes: It was easy to be agreeable when everything was done to keep them in comfort and ease.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#9. I think all writers write for an audience. There is no such thing as writing for yourself.

William S. Burroughs

#10. Worse than talking with a mouthful, is gossiping with a mouthful!

Anthony Liccione

#11. No one on a cohesive team can say, Well, I did my job. Our failure isn't my fault.

Patrick Lencioni

#12. Often, organizations need bold, grand gestures to galvanize people towards a new mission or refocus their attention.

Howard Schultz