Ken Tuchman Quotes

#1. In painting, detail for the sake of itself is useless. It must have relevance to the whole. - Author: Ken Danby

#2. Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it. - Author: Ken Livingstone

#3. While we have a Constitution that is very strong in the sense that we are not gonna have a religion that's sanctioned by the government, it doesn't mean that we need to have a separation between government and religion. - Author: Ken Buck

#4. Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler did not solve an old problem, they asked a new question, and in doing so they changed the whole basis on which the old questions had been framed. - Author: Ken Robinson

#5. There is far more happiness in a life that is your own than a life in which you are handed the lines to say and shown the gestures to make. Do not ever be ambitious. - Author: Ken Liu

#6. People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense. - Author: Ken Kesey

#7. We cannot hope to understand the world - all we can do is stand amazed at God's creation. - Author: Ken Follett

#8. Every act of communication is a miracle of translation. - Author: Ken Liu

#9. German soldiers, posted as informers, were found dressed as peasants, even as peasant women. The latter were discovered, presumably in the course of non-military action, by their government issued underwear; but many were probably never caught, it being impossible, General Gourko regretfully admitted, to lift the skirts of every female in East Prussia. - Author: Barbara W. Tuchman

#10. The way I remember it the tribe got paid some huge amount."
"That's what they said to him. He said, What can you pay for the way a man lives? He said, What can you pay for the way a man is? They didn't understand. - Author: Ken Kesey

#11. Change is the path life takes - Author: Ken Scholes

#12. The bill would ban human cloning, and any attempts at human cloning, for both reproductive purposes and medical research. Also forbidden is the importing of cloned embryos or products made from them. - Author: Ken Calvert

#13. The feelings of the men who had raised Urban over their own heads probably cannot be adequately described. Some thought that the delirium of power had made the Pope furiosus et melaneholicus - in short, mad. - Author: Barbara W. Tuchman

#14. I will only mention that the independent power of words to affect the writing of history is a thing to be watched out for. They have an almost frightening autonomous power to produce in the mind of the reader an image or idea that was not in the mind of the writer. Obviously they operate this way in all forms of writing, but history is particularly sensitive because one has a duty to be accurate, and careless use of words can leave a false impression one had not intended. - Author: Barbara W. Tuchman

#15. Running around in circles on a sunny day, that was all they needed. He - Author: Ken Altabef

#16. Everyone is bisexual. Almost everyone has the sexual potential for anything. - Author: Ken Livingstone

#17. When a tire blows, you simply accept that this is the here and now reality of your life. You've lost the tire, but that doesn't mean that you have to lose your peace and serenity. Now, serenely, begin to take the necessary steps in order the change the tire. - Author: Ken Keyes Jr.

#18. 1872 the anarchist leader Mikhail Bakunin warned Karl Marx that Communists in power would be as oppressive as the aristocracy they replaced. After what has happened in Russia, can you honestly say Bakunin was wrong? - Author: Ken Follett

#19. Education is the system that's supposed to develop our natural abilities and enable us to make our way in the world. Instead, it is stifling the individual talents and abilities of too many students and killing their motivation to learn. There's a huge irony in the middle of all of this. - Author: Ken Robinson

#20. You can't write novels about people who are timid, risk-averse and passive. Or you can, but they're called literary novels. - Author: Ken Follett

#21. Music is an art form. It is a way to wordlessly communicate. - Author: Ken Hill

#22. No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code. - Author: Ken Thompson

#23. Russians, in the knowledge of inexhaustible supplies of manpower, are accustomed to accepting gigantic fatalities with comparative calm. - Author: Barbara Tuchman

#24. The hypothetical has its charm, but actual government is history. - Author: Barbara W. Tuchman

#25. If becoming a high performing organization is the destination, leadership is the engine. - Author: Ken Blanchard

#26. While his relaxed, good-natured voice doled out his life for us to live a rollicking past full of kid fun and drinking buddies and loving women and barroom battles over meager honors-for all of us to dream ourselves into. - Author: Ken Kesey

#27. I am very fond of Edith Wharton. She's quite high brow but also a great storyteller. My favorite is 'The House of Mirth.' I also like 'The Reef.' - Author: Ken Follett

#28. Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage. - Author: Ken Robinson

#29. You're mine, Jessica. Do you ken that? Mine. - Author: Karen Marie Moning

#30. Abstraction and realism work best together. - Author: Ken Danby