Robert James Graves famous quotes

From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies.
-- Robert James Graves

#Progress #Disease #Students

Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work.
-- Robert James Graves

#Taste #Pleasure #Duty

Lest when I am gone you may be at a loss for an epitaph for me, let me give you one - He Fed Fevers.
-- Robert James Graves

#Loss #Giving #Fever

We suspect Dr. Clutterbuck's sense of hearing must be injured: for him the 'ear trumpet' magnifies but distorts sound, rendering it less distinct than before.
-- Robert James Graves

#Drs #Ears #Hearing

I demand pretty aggressive goal setting and a commitment to measured progress towards those goals because I don't like surprises. I don't even like good surprises.

Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.

Besides the progress of industry and technique, we see a growing discontent among the masses; we see, besides the expansion ("expansion,", Fr.) of instruction, distrust and hatred expanding among nations ("s'étendre la méfiance et la haine entre," Fr.), that vie with one another ("qui rivalisent à l'envi," Fr.), by the increase of their armies and the improvement of their engines of murder ("engins meurtriers", Fr.).

If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope. One of the central lessons I have learned after a half century of working in the developing world is that the replacement of fear by hope is probably the single most powerful trampoline of progress.

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

As I see it every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.

Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.

A substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it.

The disease of the heart is worse than the disease of the body.

I'm not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.