West Point famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.

  • Show me a chief executive who’s on five boards and who lends his or her name, prestige and time to 15 community activities — and I’ll show you a company that’s underperforming. A chief executive is paid to run the company. That’s the CEO’s job.

  • To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

  • Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.

  • Maybe you don't have to remember something for it to be true. For it to exist.

  • Peter Kubelka is the perfectionist of the film medium; and, as I honor that quality above all others at this time finding such a lack of it now elsewhere, I would simply like to say: Peter Kubelka is the world's greatest filmmaker - which is to say, simply: see his films!...by all means/above all else...etcetera.

  • Being a wife and a mother is very gratifying, but it's not a creative expression and that's something I need to be happy.

  • The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.

  • Who cares if a movie star has an opinion unless the person is very well informed?

  • I believe we can proactively choose to believe whatever we want instead of merely letting our beliefs coalesce as reactions to events.