A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“As a professional, I think we're not being judged solely on technical ability anymore. People really want to be entertained and enjoy what they're watching.”
“As a professor I can't teach writing.”
“As a professor in two fields, neurology and psychiatry, I am fully aware of the extent to which man is subject to biological, psychological and sociological conditions. But in addition to being a professor in two fields I am a survivor of four camps - concentration camps, that is - and as such I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.”
Source: The Unheard Cry for Meaning: Psychotherapy and Humanism
“As a professor, millennials intrigued me. I see them as engagement ready - plug-n-play if you will. They want to contribute in the classroom, the workplace and to society.”
“As a progressive discipline [biochemistry] belongs to the present century. From the experimental physiologists of the last century it obtained a charter, and, from a few pioneers of its own, a promise of success; but for the furtherance of its essential aim that century left it but a small inheritance of facts and methods. By its essential or ultimate aim I myself mean an adequate and acceptable description of molecular dynamics in living cells and tissues.”
“As a proof that we are regenerated, we must regenerate everything around us.”
“As a property developer, I learned a long time ago to choose your battles wisely and that, unfortunately, compromise is a given.”
“As a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things, more handle people and symbols.”
“As a prose mode of expository writing, the narrative approach, more than any other, offers writers a chance to think and write about their personal history and cultural identity. A personal narrative process that constructs memories in thematic sequences represents the fundamental nature of the self.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“As a prose writer, I work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal.”
Source: Conversations with Samuel R. Delany
“As a prosecutor she had been able to knit a defendant's criminal life together that way when preparing for trial, bridging one step up to the next on the criminal evolutionary scale. And she would try like hell to get it all past the presiding judge.
Now she was the judge. And as a judge, she had to adhere to a different standard.”
Source: Prior Bad Acts
“As a Protestant minister's son I am partial to apocalypses.”
“As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.”
“As a proven expert on automated electronic computerized control systems, I am asking the question: Are airline passengers hitting the ceiling only on one brand of airplane and is it a certain set of environmental conditions that sends the control system into instability, causing people to float upward?”
“As a psychiatrist, I have learned to tell my patients who are dealing with significant life conflicts to simplify the decision-making process. We have only three options: change it, put up with it, or get out. In most cases one of those three options can be eliminated immediately. Since attraction to someone of the same sex is not going to change, a married man [or woman] is only left with suffering through it or getting out.”
Source: Finally Out: Letting Go of Living Straight, a Psychiatrist's Own Story
“As a psychologist, I could never have imagined such a massive outpouring of emotions, distress, or afflication.”
“As a psychologist, I often hear from people with different backgrounds than mine: 'You know, I'm a bit of a psychologist myself'.
I now invariably reply: "When I get home, I turn on the light: I'm a bit of an electrician myself...".”
“As a psychopathic creature, the corporation can neither recognize nor act upon moral reasons to refrain from harming others.”
Source: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
“As a public interest lawyer, your fund of injustice will never be empty.”
“As a public official and being so highly visible, I have a responsibility to make it very clear that those people who will have cancer at one point in their lives will be able to function.”
“As a public person, I've always tried to reflect what is embodied in our defining ideals as a nation about equality and fairness and justice and so forth.”
“As a publicist, I've seen countless athletes and actors grapple with the fear of fading into the background or not measuring up. But remember this: your uniqueness is your strength. The world doesn't need another copy; it needs the original you. Embrace your journey, and let every challenge fuel your growth. In the face of doubt, trust in your talent and the story only you can tell. Your perseverance is your power, and your authenticity is what makes you unforgettable.”
Source: Guided Transformation: Poems, Quotes & Inspiration
“As a publisher and author, I'm a big fan of historical fiction and also memoir.”
“As a publisher what you are trying to build is a long life for a book, to help it find its readers in many different ways, whether or not it made this list or got that review, etc. I'm sure some of that thinking has been useful to me as a writer as well.”
“As a purely mathematical fact, people who sleep less live more.”
Source: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
“As a qualified keyboard politician, keyboard historian, keyboard economist, keyboard folklorist, he had always proclaimed to "know a bit of everything." Of course, his best buddies would often use the same words to mock him.”
Source: Lord of Mysteries, Vol. 1: The Clown, Part I
“As a quarterback, can you throw it where you are looking?”
“As a quarterback, I've been the guy that people were yelling for; I've been the guy that's been booed in my own stadium.”
“As a quarterback, obviously, you're going to be put in the forefront whether you like it or not, and if you're not then you're not doing your job.”
“As a quarterback, there's no better way to finish your year, in winning a Super Bowl, than with a touchdown pass. The chances of that happening, by the looks of most of the Super Bowls, is a very rare chance. Fortunately for me, I had an opportunity.”
“As a quarterback, you have to love it. As much as you like to turn around and hand the ball off - the whole traditional football game - as a quarterback, you gotta love putting it in the air.”
“As a quarterback, you try to manage the game. It's not just throwing the ball. You have to manage the running game and getting out of bad situations and there are a lot of things to it. That's what I'm trying to do.”
“As a queen I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.”
“As a queen, you'll have to choose what our city stands for. What's worth fighting for and what isn't, not based on what's right or wrong, but based on what allows your people to live unconcerned lives. And despite the fact that every intention you have is pure, they'll hate you. They can't help it. There is no decision you will make, ever, that everyone will support. You either don't do enough, or you do it the wrong way, or you're too soft, or you're too vicious.
... People need something to be upset about for their happiness to be real, " he explained, voice emotionless. "We only notice the day because there is night. We only truly quenched by water after thirst sets in. They need the negative, even if they manufacture it. It's the only way they understand the value of the positive. As their queen you're an easy target. They'll look for any crack, any blemish and scream about it. But the fact that they're screaming about you and not parishing in wars or starving in the mines will show you you've done your job well. And when you die, they'll visit your statue in the Heroes Hall and wail over what a wonderful leader you were, though you won't be around to hear it.”
Source: Ruling Sikthand
“As a queer, feminine person making unconventional games in an industry known for being at best oblivious and at worst overtly hostile to women, I've had to make games while tap-dancing through a political minefield over my identity, occasionally falling face-first onto explosives.”
Source: Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate
“As a question is created, it creates.”
Source: the human key condensed: master
“As a quick aside, let me observe that in moments of high emotion....if the next thing you're going to say makes you feel better, then it's probably the wrong thing to say. This is one of the finer maxims that I've discovered in life. And you can have it, since it's been of no use to me.”
“As a quiet salute to Beavis and Butthead, I held up my index finger and thumb in an "L"-the international sign for loser.”
“As a race car driver, driving is the easy part. The hard part is containing the emotions on the race track.”
“As a race, the African is inferior to the white man. Subordination to the white man is his normal condition. He is not his equal by nature and cannot be made so by human laws or human institutions. Our system, therefore, so far as regards this inferior race, rests upon this great immutable law of nature.”
“As a radiation researcher, I always try and sit next to the window on an airplane to observe the extreme altitude atmosphere. Since the Boeing 737 Max door plug blowout, I try to ensure my seat is not next to an exit for safety reasons.”
“As a radiation researcher, I am at one with being perceived as crazy!”
“As a radiation researcher, I knew it was wise to live in a rural area away from man-made radiation. My social responsibilities kept me in the radiation toxic city where I was able to develop radiation resistance health techniques.”
“As a radio personality, I'm a public servant, we all should be public servants in some way shape or form. I feel like my soul purpose is to be of service to others.”
“As a rapper, I don't freestyle. I used to freestyle when I used to get drunk, and it didn't matter.”
“As a rapper, I feel like image is always important but even more so than image, I really love clothes, that's why I don't use stylists. I want to do it myself because I really love it.”
“As a rapper, you sort of act in music videos and in the persona you adopt onstage. You kinda have to put yourself out there and be courageous even to be a rapper. So, to step into acting was not that difficult a transition to make.”
“As a rapper, your verses are like a window in to who you are.”
“As a re-creation of reality, a work of art has to be representational; its freedom of stylization is limited by the requirement of intelligibility; if it does not present an intelligible subject, it ceases to be art.”
Source: The Romantic Manifesto
“As a reader I don't distinguish between confessional and non-confessional work. After all, how do we even know that certain "I" poems are confessional? It's a tricky business, this correlating of the speaker and the poet.”