“You've got a fairly good idea as to what the questions are going to be. But how to record the best answer is another matter.” IdeasMatterAnswersRecordsGolfGood Ideas Author:Nick Faldo
“But now it's kind of a given that a 15-year-old would have a record deal and sell a quarter of a million records. No one's expecting her to answer any deep theological questions. And I'll tell you, I was asked some deep theological questions from the git-go.” YearsKindGivenAnswersDealsMillionsRecordsSellsQuartersExpectingTheological Author:Amy Grant
“And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both.” MayAgeAnswersRecordsLuckySkillsExtraordinaryChairmanRight AnswersBatonStellarMaestro Author:Alan Blinder
“Unlike Hillary Clinton, I am not afraid to answer questions about my track record or my accomplishments or my principles.” AnswersPrinciplesRecordsClintonTrackAccomplishmentNot AfraidTrack Record Author:Carly Fiorina
“Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger we are driven to the written record by a pressing need to find answers to the riddles of today.... In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men's reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present and get us past that idiot delusion of the exceptional Now that blocks good thinking.” ThinkingMenNeedsArtTodayPastEasyAnswersHistoryGoneRecordsWrittenGenerationsDangerScaryDrivenBlockIdiotReasoningDelusionExceptionalContinuityRiddleQuicksandLifelinesGood Thinking Book:Occasions and protests Source: Occasions and protests
“Though our private desires are ever so confused, though our private requests are ever so broken, and though our private groanings are ever so hidden from men, yet God eyes them, records them, and puts them upon the file of heaven, and will one day crown them with glorious answers and returns.” MenEyeDesireHeavenAnswersRecordsBrokenReturnOne DayConfusedGloriousCrownsFilesRequestGroaningSo Confused Author:Thomas Brooks
“What are the characters that I discern most clearly in the so-called Anglo-Saxon type of man? I may answer at once that two stickout above all others. One is his curious and apparently incurable incompetence--his congenital inability to do any difficult thing easily and well, whether it be isolating a bacillus or writing a sonata. The other is his astounding susceptibility to fears and alarms--in short, his hereditary cowardice.... There is no record in history of any Anglo-Saxon nation entering upon any great war without allies.” MenWritingWellsMayTwoWarCharacterNationsDifficultAnswersRecordsTypeCuriousAlliesCowardiceEnteringInabilityAlarmsDifficult ThingsIncompetenceGreat WarHereditaryAnglo SaxonSusceptibilitySonatas Book:Mencken Chrestomathy Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“O woman! woman! thou shouldest have few sins of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author of such a book of follies in a man that it would need the tears of all the angels to blot the record out.” MenNeedsArtBookWomenSinAnswersRecordsTearsAngelFollyMen Women Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton