Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes

Treat a boy like a fool and he'll act like a fool, I say, but there's some folks need convincing.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 22, 1898 - March 13, 1943

Topics

FoolTreatSayBoyNeedAct

I know dock leaves pretty well, but I should not attempt to introduce them into a picture without having them before me.

John Constable

MePictureKnowWithoutPrettyWell

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

Max Lerner

RichCivilizationPossessionsSpin

In overseeing both Disney and Pixar Animation, each studio has a unique culture.

John Lasseter

CultureUniqueAnimationStudioBoth

Well, I always had this desire to celebrate and somehow be a part of things that I thought were really great.

John Hodgman

GreatCelebrateThoughtDesireWell

I just want to be a guy with a guitar.

Jeff Buckley

GuitarWantGuyJust

If you wait for customers to tell you that you need to do something, you're too late. Good business leaders should be half a step ahead of what customers want, i.e. they don't actually quite know they want it. That's what innovation's about. With Plan A, we didn't wait for the consumers to tell us.

Stuart Rose

GoodBusinessInnovationStepWait

If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour.

Simon Conway Morris

PastSmallPresentFindComfort

I think we should all be tolerant of each other and embrace each others' strengths and differences and uniqueness and beauty.

Martina McBride

BeautyThinkDifferencesUniqueness

They don't tell you how to be on TV - they put the camera on you, and they turn it on, and you sink or swim.

Michael Strahan

CameraYouTurnTellSwimSink

I had a job once selling encyclopedias, and that was an interesting job because I learned a lot about people's vulnerabilities and how salesmen take advantage of them.

Jon Voight

JobPeopleInterestingSellingTake

I accepted an offer to do a concert for the reopening of the Mall of Memphis.

Johnny Rivers

ConcertMemphisMallOfferAccepted

I've learned so much as both a writer and a human.

Cheryl Strayed

HumanWriterMuchLearnedBoth

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