"There is a middlebrow snobbery in America that praises everything on public television and disdains everything on the commercial networks as a blight."

-- Henry Fairlie

#America Quotes #Television Quotes #Praise Quotes

“I have this propensity to just come out and say things. That's how I am in real life.”
“There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.”
“Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities.”
“If the man who observes the myriad stars, and considers that they and their innumerable satellites move in their serene dignity through the heavens, each swinging clear of the other's orbit-if, I say, the man who sees this cannot realise the Creator's attributes without the help of the book of Job, then his view of things is beyond my understanding.”
“The 10,000-hours rule says that if you look at any kind of cognitively complex field, from playing chess to being a neurosurgeon, we see this incredibly consistent pattern that you cannot be good at that unless you practice for 10,000 hours, which is roughly ten years, if you think about four hours a day.”
“What cannot letters inspire? They have souls; they can speak; they have in them all that force which expresses the transports of the heart....”

Source : Abelard, Heloise “Abelard letters”, Lulu.com
“Changes call for innovation, and innovation leads to progress.”
“The biggest challenge in working together is simply listening;”

Source : Source: emunderwood.com

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