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“The drums have hogged a lot of the credit. We're as much -- or more -- *cymbal* players, as we are drummers.”
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“I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue.”
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“We can heal ourselves by changing the environment inside our bodies. Potentially harmful invaders, then, will have nowhere to grow and will become harmless.”
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“There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.”
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“Size of industry, concentration of market, or production notwithstanding, the consumer is best served when the businessman is completely free to pursue his profit goals.”
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“The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering.”
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“One does simply what one can in order to apply what one knows .”
Source : Ferdinand Foch, Alphonse Grasset (1920). “Precepts and Judgments”
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“Picking other people's brains is an art worth cultivating.”
Source : Jessica Mitford (2012). “Poison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking”, p.6, New York Review of Books