Arthur F. Burns famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Spontaneity has its time and its place.
-- Arthur F. Burns

#Spontaneity
My efforts to prevent closing of the gold window-working through Connally, Volcker, and Shultz-do not seem to have succeeded. The gold window may have to be closed tomorrow because we now have a government that is incapable, not only of constructive leadership, but of any action at all. What a tragedy for mankind!
-- Arthur F. Burns

#Government #Effort #Gold
We all know it's brutal up there at the front, especially those of us at the rear.
-- Arthur F. Burns

#Brutal
As you take leave of [your school], as you graduate into a new life of the mind, may each of you ask yourself this: What am I doing to increase the sum hope of the world? ... What am I doing to teach someone else what I have learned?
-- Arthur F. Burns

#School #Mind #May

I tend to be really pragmatic, but ultimately tend to be attracted to people who pull me into more spontaneity. I've really learned that, through surrender, the best experiences of my life have happened.
Spontaneity has its time and its place.
It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.
I don't get stage fright, I actually love the energy, I love the spontaneity, I love the adrenaline you get in front of a live audience, it actually really works for me.
Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business.
I don't write any of my material down. I like to improvise and be spontaneous.
As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.
When I do things without any explanation, but just with spontaneity...I can be sure that I am right.
I am more spontaneous than my character.
Analysis kills spontaneity.

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