Craig Adams famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Once you have your practice and you have your mechanics, you must be able to go out there and trust your mechanics.

  • All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.

  • The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.

  • A few weeks later, I’m in a fluorescent-lit classroom in Chelsea awaiting the start of the official Mensa test. I’m sitting next to a guy who’s doing a series of elaborate neck stretches, like we’re about to engage in a vigorous rugby match. He’s neatly laid out four types of gum on his Formica desk: Juicy Fruit, Wrigley Spearmint, Big Red, and Eclipse. I hate this guy. I hope to God he’s not a genius.

  • I'm the type of guy who likes to be there 24-7. I'm Mr. Roses.

  • And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.

  • If you do not give the tenth part to God, he will take the nine parts.

  • All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side.

  • I got a journalism degree. I started doing journalism - I interned at 'Cosmopolitan' magazine in the 1970s, which probably wasn't the best place for me, and I spent six or nine months freelancing. Anyway, I wasn't that good at it.

  • Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.

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