"He who prides himself on giving what he thinks the public wants is often creating a fictitious demand for low standards which he will then satisfy."

-- John Reith, 1st Baron Reith

#Pride Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Creating Quotes

“But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.”
“Every word, every image, is leased and mortgaged,”
“I love playing and I love singing, and the writing. There's kind of a symbiotic relationship between the writing and the playing.”
“Common sense should tell us that positively reinforcing sadistic behavior, as these games do, cannot be good for our children,.”
“You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.”
“To maintain the ascendancy of the Constitution over the lawmaking majority is the great and essential point on which the success of the [American] system must depend; unless that ascendancy can be preserved, the necessary consequence must be that the laws will supersede the Constitution; and, finally, the will of the Executive, by influence of its patronage, will supersede the laws . . .”
“I do think it is possible to be in love with two people at the same time.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A man is more than the sum of all the things he can do.”

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