Share Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. ~Samuel Johnson Our society’s values are being corrupted by advertising’s insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness. ~John Fisher The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single [...]
Posts from ‘November, 2008’
Noam Chomsky Quotes
Share Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists. You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it. The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it [...]
Walt Disney Quotes
Share The era we are living in today is a dream of coming true. The opportunities are still there. You can’t just let nature run wild. I don’t want the public to see the world they live in while they’re in the Park (Disneyland). I want to feel they’re in another world. Whenever I go [...]
Business Quotes
Share Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.~Maria Edgeworth Don’t simply retire from something; have something to retire to.~Harry Emerson Fosdick In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn’t know what he is doing.~William Wordsworth Business, that’s easily defined – it’s [...]
Astrology Quotes
Share Astrology is often true for many people because of the law of large numbers. There are only 12 types of predictions for 5 billion Humans. ~ allfamousquotes.net Astrologers that future fates foreshow. ~Alexander Pope I don’t believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the [...]
Belief Quotes
Share Any belief worth having must survive doubt.~Unknown Author Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.~Noah Porter It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.~George Bernard Shaw Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.~Lewis Carroll The belief that there is [...]
Salvador Dali Quotes
Share Let my enemies devour each other. I am not strange, I am just not normal. Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. The only thing that the world will not have enough of is exaggeration. The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture. Intelligence without ambition is a bird without [...]