Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Cowper

Manner is all in all whatever is writ, the substitute for genius sense and wit

Bill Cosby

YOU are a genius!... and I am a genius because I married you.

Berkeley Breathed

Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.

Arnold Schoenberg

There are no more geniuses, only critics.

Bertrand Russell

The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind.

Bill Belichick

I think, for the most part, you're looking at players who are in roles, or situations, as probably being the swing guys on those numbers. I don't know if the geniuses referred to that or not. Probably not,

John Beckman

He is the very spirit of inventive genius that this museum looks to inspire people with.

Minna Antrim

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius

Matthew Arnold

It always seems to me that the right sphere for Shelley's genius was the sphere of music, not of poetry.

Michael W. Smith

Our neighbors respect our privacy, but they are always supportive and helpful.

Bobby Bowden

I think our schedule is now so tough, and with a playoff game, I ain't going to look out for no Ohio State. You want to get somebody to come to your school and play, like some of our neighbors maybe.

Robert Rhodes

Go back to your neighbors and talk to them as quickly as you can.

Chris Browning

we feel it is very important to reach out and do what we can for our neighbors who have not been similarly blessed.

Jose Rivera

Neighbors come by and give us food. We have support.

Abraham Lincoln

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.

Greg Evans

Most people don't realize their neighbors are as nosy as they are.

John Galloway

We're having just a wee get-together with neighbors.

Angela Johnson

See all us? We neighbors. We got to stick together.

Bela Bartok

Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible major and minor system is tonal. (An "atonal" folk-music, in my opinion, is unthinkable.) Since we depend upon a tonal basis of this kind in our creative work, it is quite self-evident that our works are quite pronouncedly tonal in type. I must admit, however, that there was a time when I thought I was approaching a species of twelve-tone music. Yet even in works of that period the absolute tonal foundation is unmistakable.

Bede Griffiths

The one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.

B. R. Ambedkar

Learn to live in this world with self-respect

B. H. Liddell Hart

Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding.

B. F. Skinner

I've had only one idea in my life - a true idee fixe. To put it as bluntly as possible - the idea of having my own way. 'Control!' expresses it. The control of human behavior. In my early experimental days it was a frenzied, selfish desire to dominate. I remember the rage I used to feel when a prediction went awry. I could have shouted at the subjects of my experiments, 'Behave, damn you! Behave as you ought!

B. F. Skinner

A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies.

Billy Corgan

I've rarely done anything that's overtly self-destructive without consciously knowing what I'm doing. And then of course, the astute journalist jumps forward and says, "Why are you being calculated?" Calculated seems to assume a sinister intent. My intent is always for artistic effect.

Bill Crawford

To understand ourself, we must understand our "selves," or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.

Bill Crawford

The key to self-confidence is knowing that you would choose you... and why. In this way the chosen becomes the chooser, and love versus fear becomes the energy of choice.