Jeffrey Gardner Quotes

I'm tired of this 'we better lay low, or someone will figure out we're different' crap. I mean, it's not like if I win a match people are going to say, who's that kid, he's a really good wrestler, he must be an angel. ~ Cynthia Hand

Information and knowledge are two different things and not nearly the same. ~ Jeffrey Fry

I do feel pretty lucky that I'm not so great at playing and singing, it forces me to make sure I've really got something worth presenting because I can't rely on any kind of virtuosity to dazzle people with. ~ Jeffrey Lewis

You cannot lead toxic people but you can inoculate those who can be infected by a toxic person and detoxify the team by ridding it of the toxin. ~ Jeffrey G. Duarte

Photography is about freezing a moment in time; McGinley's is about freezing a stage in a lifetime. ~ Jeffrey Kluger

I'd like to show how 'intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members' connects with 'the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age. ~ Jeffrey Eugenides

There's no lotion or potion that will make sales faster and easier for you - unless your potion is hard work. ~ Jeffrey Gitomer

The stories leaders and others tell, few of which are true, are a lousy foundation on which to base any sort of science, and we know how to accomplish behavioral change and the importance of priming, informational saliency, and social networks. Producing inspiration and other good feelings doesn't last very long. ~ Jeffrey Pfeffer

People with anxiety disorders such as OCD know that nothing can be more paralyzing than having too many options. Go to a store to buy a sweater, find four that you like and the odds are pretty good you'll stare and stare ... and buy nothing at all. ~ Jeffrey Kluger

The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy. ~ Jeffrey Tucker

You're suppose to lay down and close your eyes when you are dreaming. ~ Michael W. Gardner

You cannot change people around you, but you can change the people you are around. ~ Jeffrey Fry

Here is our rapin' cave. It's not much of a cave... and we haven't done much rapin'... but man, we've had some good times. ~ Jeffrey Hale

Madeline began hearing people saying "Derrida". She heard them saying "Lyotard" and "Foucault" and "Deleuze" and "Baudrillard". That most of these people were those she instinctually disapproved of- upper-middle-class kids who wore Doc Martens and anarchist symbols- made Madeline dubious about the value of their enthusiasm. ~ Jeffrey Eugenides

He felt as if he were being violently emptied out, as if a big magnet were pulling his blood and fluids down into the earth. He was weeping again, unstoppably, his head like the chandelier in his grandparents' house in Buffalo, the one that was too high for them to reach and that every time he visited had one fewer bulb alight. His head was an old chandelier, going dark. ~ Jeffrey Eugenides

Ask for the sale when the mood is right. The worst possible place is in the prospects' office. Best place is a business breakfast, lunch or dinner. Next best is your office. Next best is a trade show. Ask early, and ask often. ~ Jeffrey Gitomer

Sometimes I hate this language with its false words like sunset. The sun does not set. It doesn't rise either. It just stays there in one place, yet we get all romantic, huddling on beaches to watch its so-called departure, when it is we who turn away from it, which is a good thing-if the sun could turn, it would never come back, it'd just keep going, look for some better planet to nourish.

Moonlight is another lie. It's a luminescent echo. The moon is a politician whose speeches are written by the sun. I long for a world where witnesses in court must place their hands on a dictionary when they swear. A world where an archer must ask an arrow's permission before loading it into a crossbow. A world with inverted flashlights that shoot out beams of darkness, so you can go to the beach and sabotage sunbathers, rob them of their shine.

A world where people eat animals they wish to emulate. But who the hell am I? I'm just the spark from two people who rubbed their genitals together like sticks in a forest one October night because they were cold. I'm just burning the firecracker at both ends. Every morning I get up and swallow my weirdness pills.

I know the glass is half full, but it's a shot glass, and there are four of us, and we're all very thirsty. I know it's easy not to cry over spilled milk when you've got another carton in the fridge. ~ Jeffrey McDaniel

I love doing motion pictures and expect to be as busy as I want to be in them. ~ Jeffrey Hunter

The truth did not always set you free. Sometimes it bound you to dark, bloody deeds and cost you the people you loved. ~ Lisa Gardner

When Batty got back home from walking the dogs, there were teenagers lounging all over the place, some left over from the basketball game, some arriving for the birthday dinner, some who fit into both categories. For once, she hardly cared, too delighted to see that Oliver's sleek car was no longer in the driveway. Hoping that he was gone forever, she rushed into the house and ended up in the kitchen, where dinner preparations were in full swing. Mr. Penderwick was chopping up vegetables for quesadillas, Rosalind was pulling a cake out of the oven, Jeffrey was shredding cheese, and Iantha was cooking up small, plain cheese quesadillas for Lydia, who was to be fed before the big dinner got rolling. Then there were the non-workers: Lydia in her high chair, wearing both her crown and her lamb bib, her new pink rabbit beside her; Jane sitting cross-legged on the floor, in everyone's way; Ben, strutting around, showing off his new Celtics T-shirt; and Asimov, sticking close to Jeffrey, hoping for falling cheese. ~ Jeanne Birdsall

In the artist's recreation of the world we are enabled to see the world. ~ John W. Gardner

Sometimes you need to lose everything to find what is valuable. ~ Jeffrey Fry

Now I've given up any hope of lasting fame or literary perfection. I don't care if I write a great book anymore, but just one which, whatever its flaws, will leave a record of my impossible life. ~ Jeffrey Eugenides

There is some realm where feelings become birds and dark sky, and spirit is more solid than stone. ~ John Gardner

Clever women are hard to intimidate. ~ Jeffrey Perren

Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign' have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips? ~ Martin Gardner

I find I don't learn a lot while I'm talking ~ Jeffrey Archer

But Beverly warned, Sasha, civilized as the British are, you shouldn't assume that just because you're clever, they will accept you as one of them. There are many who are suspicious of a first-class mind, while others will make a judgment based not on the words you say, but the accent in which they're pronounced. - Dr. Streator ~ Jeffrey Archer

Everyday, we have to ask God for our assignment, we must not assume we understand His plan but rather surrender to His will daily. ~ E'yen A. Gardner

In public at least, Roberts himself purports to have a different view of the Court than his conservative sponsors. "Judges are like umpires," he said at his confirmation hearing. "Umpires don't make the rules; they apply them." Elsewhere, Roberts has often said, "Judges are not politicians." None of this is true. Supreme Court justices are nothing at all like baseball umpires. It is folly to pretend that the awesome work of interpreting the Constitution, and thus defining the rights and obligations of American citizenship, is akin to performing the rote […] task of calling balls and strikes. When it comes to the core of the Court's work, determining the contemporary meaning of the Constitution, it is ideology, not craft or skill, that controls the outcome of cases. ~ Jeffrey Toobin

I wanted to be a writer, to write these stories that would make people see the world in a different way. But I ended up going to business school because I thought I could ultimately get to where I wanted to go faster that way. ~ Jeffrey Skoll

Hitler didn't travel. Stalin didn't travel. Saddam Hussein never traveled. They didn't want to have their orthodoxy challenged. ~ Howard Gardner

War and Peace maddens me because I didn't write it myself, and worse, I couldn't. ~ Jeffrey Archer

Fancy words and ambiguous notions make you feel like your argument is valid but it exudes multiple logical fallacies, which make you continue to search for a valid point. ~ Jeffrey G. Duarte

If Mitchell was ever going to become a good Christian, he would have to stop disliking people so intensely. ~ Jeffrey Eugenides

There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most widespread and damaging. Hopefully, educated people can succeed in shedding light into these areas of prejudice and ignorance, for as Voltaire once said: 'Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities. ~ Martin Gardner

Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth,
like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones. ~ Jeffrey McDaniel

But, like anyone in love, Madeleine believed that her own relationship was different from every other relationship, immune from typical problems. ~ Jeffrey Eugenides

It's ok to FAIL it's not ok to Quit ~ Chris Gardner

The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet. ~ Jeffrey Tate

Positive mental attitude is determined by you. Not others. ~ Jeffrey Gitomer

The web's strength lies precisely in its unique position as the world's first universal platform. ~ Jeffrey Zeldman

To write good SF today ... you must push further and harder, reach deeper into your own mind until you break through into the strange and terrible country wherein live your own dreams. ~ Gardner Dozois

Nobody's story is real unless we share it with someone who matters. ~ Jeffrey Deitz

[Louis Brandeis] insisted on the necessity of public reason, which he thought could only be achieved if all of us just take the time to inform ourselves about the best arguments on all sides of questions so that we can make up our own minds. ~ Jeffrey Rosen

I think Apple is a great device company. ~ Jeffrey Bewkes

My experience to date has been that change, particularly relative to business, rarely happens in a revolutionary way. That isn't to say there are not times when major change happens, but my experience is that particularly when you're encouraging businesses to change of their own volition, the change is more slow over time. I don't think global trade is going to go away. I think it's unlikely that global trade and multinationals are not going to be around. ~ Jeffrey Hollender

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison. ~ Jeffrey Archer