“Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.” Quote by Aristotle
“My business is to be talented, that is, to be capable of selecting the important moments from the trivial ones. . . . It's about time for writers - particularly those who are genuine artists - to recognize that in this world you cannot figure out everything. Just have a writer who the crowds trust be courageous enough and declare that he does not understand everything, and that alone will represent a major contribution to the way people think, a long leap forward.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayLongDoeImportantEnoughMomentsArtistUnderstandingBusinessFiguresThis WorldMajorsCapableCrowdsGenuineContributionCourageousLeapBe CourageousImportant Moments Author:Anton Chekhov
“The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.” PeopleYearsWarUseAge Author:Arnold Bennett
“Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.” PeopleResultsDemocracyAbsolutesExtremesWealthyExcessDespotismOligarchy Author:Aristotle
“People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.” PeopleHouseGrowsJusticePlayerBuildingBuilderHarpsBuilding Houses Author:Aristotle
“The two best interview subjects are children under 10 and people over 70 for the same reason: they say the first thing that comes to their mind. The children don't know what they're saying and the old folks don't care.” PeopleKnowsMindFirstsChildrenTwoReasonCareSubjectsFolksDon't CareInterviews Author:Art Linkletter
“People are broad-minded. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater and even a newspaperman, but if a man does not drive, there is something wrong with him.” PeopleIfsMenPersonsDoeFactsAcceptingWifeBroadsAlcoholicsDopeDriving On Author:Art Buchwald
“I went through a period of first successes. Then there was the inevitable change: the bad newspaper articles. Some people don't care about that, but I do. I'm hurt. I feel it. I don't think I've done anything dreadful. Sometimes you do things for reasons the press doesn't know. But I'm happy to go on as I have.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFeelsFirstsSometimesReasonDoneCareSuccessChangeHurtGoes OnPeriodsPressesDon't CareNewspapersInevitableArticlesInevitable Change Author:Audrey Hepburn
“O my people, I disavow all that you associate [with God]. I orient my face with an exclusive orientation towards Him, who created the heavens and the earth and I am not one of the associators.” PeopleEarthFacesHeavenAssociatesExclusiveOrientation Author:Abdelkader El Djezairi
“Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under which nations make war can be changed. The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. We need to make vast changes in human behavior.” PeopleIfsNeedsHumansArtWarPhilosophyUseNationsPracticeHistoryEnvironmentConditionsChangedBehaviorPopulationNuclearAbandonedHolocaustPollutionHuman BehaviorContraceptives Author:B. F. Skinner
“A willing, cheerful worker, with his heart in his job, will turn out more work and more satisfactory work in 44 hours than an unwilling worker, dissatisfied with his conditions, will turn out in 54 hours. It is good business, therefore, for every employer to go as far as he possibly can in reaching a schedule agreeable to his people.” PeopleHeartJobsTurnsHoursBusinessConditionsWillingWorkersReachingSchedulesCheerfulEmployersUnwillingDissatisfiedGood Business Author:B. C. Forbes
