"Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out."

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Source : "'Dennis the Menace' creator dead at 81". www.cnn.com. June 3, 2001.

Hank Ketcham

#Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes #People Quotes

“The Jews were gassed. Armenians were killed in every conceivable way... So the Holocaust doesn't interest me, see? They've had a lot of publicity, but they didn't suffer as much.”
“Mathematics is the language of size.”

Source : "Mathematics for the Million". Book by Lancelot Hogben, 1937.
“Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.”
“A German sense of humor is an oxymoron.”
“Talk of world peace is heard today only among the white peoples, and not among the much more numerous coloured races. This is a perilous state of affairs. When individual thinkers and idealists talk of peace, as they have done since time immemorial, the effect is negligible. But when whole peoples become pacifistic it is a symptom of senility. Strong and unspent races are not pacifistic. To adopt such a position is to abandon the future, for the pacifist ideal is a terminal condition that is contrary to the basic facts of existence. As long as man continues to evolve, there will be wars...”
“YouÂ can always expect tragedy as well as adventure; that's just how it goes,”
“It could be argued that all leadership is appreciative leadership. Itâ€™s the capacity to see the best in the world around us, in our colleagues, and in the groups we are trying to lead. Itâ€™s the capacity to see the most creative and improbable opportunities in the marketplace. Itâ€™s the capacity to see with an appreciative eye the true and the good, the better and the possible.”
“Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied. 2) Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. 3) Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. 4) Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also”

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