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Max Eastman Quotes

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: January 4, 1883 - March 25, 1969

Topics

People Situation Status Quo Status

That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.

Jerry Della Femina

Great City Advertising You Three

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.

Winter Story Feel Landscape You

I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion.

Andrea Thompson

Forgiveness Compassion Think Learn

If children are given some real content, they can feel powerful with their own understanding of it. I think a movie like 'Indian in the Cupboard' will instruct them how to proceed as people. They can think about whether they would have done something the way a character did, how they would have felt about an event in the story.

Melissa Mathison

Character Children People Think Feel

Wildfires are a result of temperature conditions, of soil moisture conditions; and, of course, something has to start it.

Start Result Soil Something Course

Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then, it is more difficult for them to beat the market averages or even to match their own past performance.

Money Past Performance Circle More

When I was in high school, I wasn't thinking about getting a scholarship. I was thinking about trying to go and dominate. Same thing in college. I just have to focus on playing the best football I can.

Best Focus Football School College

The truth is that throughout my careers in both chess and the martial arts, I often knew that my rivals were more naturally gifted than me - either with their mental machines or their bodies. But I have believed in my training, my approach to learning, and my ability to rise to the challenge under pressure.

Joshua Waitzkin

Learning Truth Challenge Training Me

You don't contest shots without expending energy. You don't get deflections - unless you walk into one every now and then - without expending energy. These are the things in basketball you have to really want to do.

Walk Basketball Energy You Now Want

It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles.

Me Name New Principles Judgement

You may not know it now, if you studied communications or engineering, law or medicine, business or classics: you're a storyteller, too.

Business Law Medicine Engineering

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

Attitude Beginning Will Difficult

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