"We believe a scientist because he can substantiate his remarks, not because he is eloquent and forcible in his enunciation. In fact, we distrust him when he seems to be influencing us by his manner."

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Source : John Constable, I. A. Richards (2013). “Princ Literary Criticism”, p.300, Routledge

I. A. Richards

#Believe Quotes #Facts Quotes #Influence Quotes

“I got so lucky on my 'Red Widow' cast. It was just the universe looking out for me that I got those actors. It's a big ensemble cast, a very international cast. I don't know how that happened.”
“Bare twigs in April enhance our pleasure; We know the good time is yet to come.... Bare twigs in Autumn are signs for sadness; We feel the good time is well-nigh past.”
“It is okay not to like someone, but it is never okay to try and degrade, humiliate, or dehumanize them.”

Source : FaceBook post by Cory Booker from Oct 04, 2016
“The Argentine tango isn't here to play nicely with the other children. The Argentine tango is here to seduce your women, spill things on your rug, and sneak out your bedroom window in the middle of the night.”
“No one can pray and worry at the same time.”
“The key to hitting is just plain working at it. Work, that's the real secret.”
“I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that which we assign for the variations in other functions, viz. difference of organization; and that the superiority of man in rational endowments is not greater than the more exquisite, complicated, and perfectly developed structure of his brain, and particularly of his ample cerebral hemispheres, to which the rest of the animal kingdom offers no parallel, nor even any near approximation, is sufficient to account for.”
“I'm always trying to ask myself both "Who am I as an individual?" and "What are the cultural forces that have made me the person that I am?" How can I understand myself as a cultural creature as well as an individual? I'm really obsessed with that question, and always asking my students to consider it.”

Source : Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

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