E Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with E. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Experts in fields can be hired & fired. But experts in people, who can understand & respect them and lead them becomes their Leader. And people don't fire them, they follow leaders.”
“Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they’re four years old, they’re usually among the best readers by the time they’re eight.”
“Experts in the fashion industry say the first clothes that people are drawn to are instinctual. Think of your favorite clothes as a child. Then as you mature, you focus deeper into the self. Now you favor clothes that involve sexuality, yours and other people's. You begin to reflect your profession, your mental state, then address your personal affectations. Your personhood. And then you start to look into the world. At society and history and nature. You feel for texture and you create contrasts and distance.”
Source: Home Remedies
“Experts kill me. Economic experts, that is. Corporations, foundations, publications and governments pay them by the bucketful, and they fill buckets with forecasts that change more frequently than white-collar, workers do shirts. What Lies Ahead is the usual title. What Lies would often be more appropriate. If women's hemlines changed as rapidly as an economist's forecasts, the fashion people and the textile industry would be more profitable than any other. In fact, if all the country's economists were laid end to end, they still wouldn't reach a conclusion.”
“Experts must read the patterns and judge their usefulness as evidence. Under any of numerous pressures, an expert may wish to misread a pattern or even to alter it. Americans had a touching trust in "experts".”
Source: The Good Guy
“Experts now talk about the ‘nutrition transition’, in which populations in developing countries move straight from malnourishment to obesity.”
“Experts often possess more data than judgment.”
Source: My American Journey
“Experts on both sides, both parties say that, [Donald Trump] is going to turn over the operation to his three children, Donald Jr., Eric and Ivanka. That's not a blind trust. According to experts we talked to, they're involved now in choosing the next government.”
“Experts on dietetics (the study of diet and its health effects) are finally recognising that balanced vegan diets are healthy. The British Dietary Association has stated well planned vegan diets can support healthy living in people of all ages, and other similar professional bodies all over the world agree. On the other side, the World Health Organization has classified processed meat as carcinogenic, and there is increasing evidence that eating lots of meat and dairy increases blood pressure and blood cholesterol, which leads to heart disease, and that cutting them out can significantly reduce your risk of type 2 diabetes, a disease which is affecting an increasing number of people in developed nations.”
Source: Ethical Vegan: A Personal and Political Journey to Change the World
“Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.”
“Experts say men think of sex every 10 seconds... What do they think of in the other nine?”
“Experts say that children are not born criminals, nor pampered parasites. They are made that way by the environment in which they live.”
“Experts say that denying bad feelings intensifies them, acknowledging bad feelings allows good feelings to return.”
Source: The Happiness Project
“Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system.”
“Experts say that if we go to war with Iraq, oil could reach as much as $80 a barrel. Of course, after the war it will be free.”
“Experts say that Iraq may have nuclear weapons. That's bad news - they may have a nuclear bomb. Now the good news is that they have to drop it with a camel.”
“Experts say that the movie King Kong (1933) released the pent-up rage of the Great Depression. Well, COVID-19 Halloween displays could do the same for our feelings about the 2020 lockdown.”
“Experts say this global warming is serious, and they are predicting now that by the year 2050, we will be out of party ice.”
“Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time.”
“Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?”
“Experts step outside their comfort zone and study themselves failing.”
“Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.”
“Experts tend to be busy and hyper organized. They want to help you, but the easier you make it for them, the better. They most likely do not have time to read your entire book or try out your 12 hour course, so summarize and highlight the strong points for them. Give them specific guidelines to make it very easy on their part.”
“Experts were once amateurs who kept practicing.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Expiating a sin does not mean doing something opposite to wallow in guilt, but to use that same guilt to achieve full knowledge of the sin. The fault lies more not in having committed certain acts, rather in having carried them out without reaching their intimate knowledge. And this leads to committing a wrong again and again.”
Source: Daimones
“Expired condoms are like nuclear waste: there's nothing sensible you can do with it.”
“Expiring for love is beautiful but stupid.”
Source: Truisms and essays
“Explain it to me."
But I couldn't. I'd had to learn it my own way, and so had my mother. Jason would eventually, as well. No one could tell you: you just had to go through it on your own. If you were lucky, you came out on the other side and understood., If you didn't, you kept getting thrust back, retracing those steps, until you finally got it right.”
Source: The Truth About Forever
“Explain me, to me. Whatever the words, that was my question, youth to old age. But even tutors have their limits.”
“Explain me to myself, you’ll make me choke on my lunch. Feel sympathy for me, I’ll puke monkey blood on your understated shoes.”
“Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.”
“Explain the message or thought to someone and they will usually forget. Attempt to educate them and they may remember. Include them in the process and they will gain wisdom. Action and participation are the strongest forms of communication.
RJ Intindola – (Gandolfo) – 1992”
“Explain the message or thought to someone and they will usually forget. Attempt to educate them and they may remember. Include them in the process and they will gain wisdom. Action and participation, is the strongest form of communication.”
“Explain the Scriptures by the Scriptures.”
“Explain the value and justify the cost - People don’t mind paying; they just don’t like to overpay.”
Source: Selling with EASE: The Four Step Sales Cycle Found in Every Successful Business Transaction
“Explain this," Sarah said. "Anorexics think they're fat, right? Then why don't the rest of us think we're skinny?"
Lard snorted. "Cosmic injustice."
Alice looked up from braiding her hair. "Don't believe everything you think."
"I once had a shrink give me a piece of string and ask me to guess the size of my waist," Nicole said. "Then she measured me. I'd guessed my middle was fifteen inches smaller than it was."
"Does anyone really have a healthy body image?"
"Or whole society is distorted," Nicole replied.”
“Explain to me again the difference between superstitious beliefs or pagan incantations, and scientific ones. Be braver - you cannot cross a chasm in two small jumps.”
“Explain to me how he [her son] can ride a bicycle, run, play ball, set up a camp, swing, fight a war, swim and race for eight hours ... and has to be driven to the garbage can.”
“Explain to me how you having a problem with me is my problem...”
Source: Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
“Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word.”
“Explain to people that everything they say is an affirmation. Everything they think is an affirmation. Everything! What you want to do is to get control of what you are saying and thinking, so these things bring you good experiences in life rather than rotten experiences.”
“Explain to the mothers and fathers of American servicemen that may come home in body bags why their son or daughter have to give up their life?”
“Explain why you're refusing to participate in an activity, or to accept an offer made to you.”
“Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a PREFERENCE for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. No other woman exists by the side of her. I would rather touch her hand if it were dead, than I would touch any other woman's living.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“Explainability is one thing; interpreting it rightly (for the good of society), is another.”
Source: The AI Thought Book: Inspirational Thoughts & Quotes on Artificial Intelligence
“Explaining "why" to a dog is pretty useless. You have to engage their instincts in order to change their behavior.”
“Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process.”
“Explaining a professor's emphasis on teaching over research: "She traded clinical questions with determinable answers for perennial questions with inexhaustible answers.”
“Explaining a single thing - should not take more than a word.
Optimization.”