Quotes with jack-of-all-trades

Quotes 4521 till 4540 of 6348.

  • Oscar Wilde The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • George Orwell The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Wyndham Lewis The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or privilege. These things are not done away with, it is needless to say, but numerous scapegoats are made of the less politically powerful, to satisfy the egalitarian rage awakened.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Barry Levinson The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
    Barry Levinson
    American filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor (1942 - )
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  • Bonnie Tyler The international travelling gets harder as I get older, but when I'm performing on stage, it makes it all worth while.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • Jack Welch The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
    Jack Welch
    American businessman, author, and chemical engineer (1935 - 2020)
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  • Louise Erdrich The Internet, which seems now so embedded and personal and crucial to our lives, isn't at all - we really shouldn't think of it that way.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Carol Moseley Braun The Islamic community today is faced with a new version of an old struggle. My late mother used to say it doesn't matter whether you came to this country on the Mayflower or on a slave ship, through Ellis Island or the Rio Grande. We're all in the same boat now.
    Speech, September 2004
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Camille Paglia The junk-bond era has also spawned something that calls itself New Historicism. This seems to be a refuge for English majors without critical talent or broad learning in history or political science. To practice it, you must apparently lack all historical sense.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Douglas Engelbart The key thing about all the world's big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we don't get collectively smarter, we're doomed.
    Intelligence in the Internet Age, New York Times 19-9-2005
    Douglas Engelbart
    American engineer and inventor (1925 - 2013)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Julius Erving The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.
    Julius Erving
    American basketball player (1950 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity, custom, and fear.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bobby Orr The kids wait for it to be organized. They want to go play all of these tournaments, for a little practice time. I learned my skills by dropping the puck just with the kids. I think that's missing today.
    Bobby Orr
    Canadian ice hockey player (1948 - )
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  • Ruth Gordon The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an actress is the most unnerving. How can we tell if she means it or if she's just practicing?
    Ruth Gordon
    American actress (1896 - 1985)
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  • Avicenna The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.
    Avicenna
    Persian polymath (0 - 1037)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane Fonda, for all we know, would be just another overweight housewife.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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