William Julius Wilson Quotes

But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.

William Julius Wilson

Recitation: by Male by Female

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LeadershipPerseveranceCharacter

GE is 130 years old because it keeps changing and evolving.

John L. Flannery

OldYearsEvolvingBecauseChanging

Silicon Valley has infinite access to capital and can lose money indefinitely.

John Landgraf

MoneyLoseInfiniteValleyCapital

I walk into rooms and I don't know why I'm there. I'm like, 'Why am I standing in front of the toilet now?'

Matthew Broderick

WalkKnowNowWhyToiletStanding

The peacock has become one of my regular sources of inspiration from nature.

Matthew Williamson

NatureBecomeInspirationPeacock

A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.

Jeff Cooper

ManSmartWiseWise ManHalfOnly

It's a fun job, but it's stressful because you have to be funny. You have to have punch lines and captions. Be funny now! And if you're not inspired, they don't care - be funny now! They have to fill that hole the next day.

Steve Breen

FunnyDayJobFunCareYou

I don't look at football as a violent, barbaric sport. It's a very spiritual sport, especially for someone facing the challenges during a game: the fear of failure, the fear of getting too big an ego, of making a mistake and everybody criticizing you.

Troy Polamalu

FailureFearFootballSpiritualEgo

I feel quite grounded, which is great.

Tom Weston-Jones

GreatFeelGroundedI FeelQuite

I'm unfinished. I'm unfixed. And the reality is that's where God meets me is in the mess of my life, in the unfixedness, in the brokenness. I thought he did the opposite, he got rid of all that stuff. But if you read the Bible, if you look at it at all, constantly he was showing up in people's lives at the worst possible time of their life.

Mike Yaconelli

LifeGodTimePeopleMeBible

I am diagnosed with what's called 'REM behavior disorder.' As far as the disorder goes, there's no cure, but it's going pretty well as far as these things go. I see a sleep doctor, take medication, etc.

Mike Birbiglia

SleepI AmDoctorBehaviorGoSee

The conventionality of the English is something I find unattractive - the whole lack of joy in the physical.

Denholm Elliott

JoyFindSomethingEnglishWhole

My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here.

Dorothy Dunnett

FatherMotherGameChessAlwaysMet

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