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Brooks Atkinson Quotes

The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.

Brooks Atkinson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: November 28, 1894 - January 14, 1984

Topics

Life Growth View Point Of View Point

My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.

Courage Me Succeed Sword Skill Him

I'm not good at narrative; I'm really a gag writer, and that comes from being in the newspaper comic strip world for a while in college. What I do is I just write tons of jokes, then I sort them out in terms of quality and then pick the best of the jokes and then try to form them into a plot. If I get a good theme going, I feel lucky.

Good Best Quality College World Try

You can be happy, or you can be right. If you want to be part of a couple and win every argument, you're in trouble.

Happy Be Happy Win You Trouble Want

I've lived through periods of illiquidity before. Asset prices come down. The economy slows or even goes into recession. Then the cycle re-starts. We buy at lower prices with less leverage.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

Down Leverage Economy Buy Lived

We've come to expect so little from online privacy measures that public displays of concern about the matter are more or less for show. Being devastated to discover you've been tagged in somebody else's photo has an air of the melodramatic about it at this point.

You Privacy Matter More Air Little

Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.

Music Singing Battle You Selling

My creative process involves that old saying: It's 90% perspiration and only 10% inspiration.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Creative Saying Process Inspiration

When I grew up, my race was not a thing. My identity was in my class. It was not about colour on my estate.

Identity Class Race Colour Up About

President George W. Bush's aggressive war on Islamic terrorism produced a 100 percent perfect track record of keeping the United States safe from another attack. The result has been increased security for the American people, who, in turn, have become complacent about the true nature of the threat.

Nature War People American Result

In general, I try to eat food without added hormones and pesticides, but I'm not so strict that I won't have a Big Mac once in a while.

Food Try Eat Without Big Pesticides

The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Language Behavior Unknown System

I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals.

Jonathan Shapiro

Nature Saw Eventually Individuals

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