Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford Quotes

It is a maxim in philosophy that ambitious men can be never good counselors to princes; the desire of having more is common to great lords, and a desire of rule a great cause of their ruin.

Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: statesman
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: April 13, 1593 - May 12, 1641

Topics

GoodGreatMenPhilosophyDesire

Learning to live with not meeting other people's expectations has been extremely freeing and is the only gift I wish to pass on to any future offspring.

Jenna Wortham

LearningFutureLivePeopleGift

I want to paint big, bright, optimistic pictures of the place I love.

John Dyer

LovePlacePicturesWantBrightBig

If I can make one generalised statement, and generalised statements are never entirely true, nobody wants to be talked down to, kids included.

Spike Jonze

DownI CanNobodyTrueNeverKids

If we want to implement climate protection worldwide, countries like Germany, which are capable of developing new technologies, will have to hand over some of their knowledge. We can't expect to have our cake and eat it too.

Sigmar Gabriel

KnowledgeCakeNewWantWillHand

Employees who report receiving recognition and praise within the last seven days show increased productivity, get higher scores from customers, and have better safety records. They're just more engaged at work.

Tom Rath

WorkSafetyBetterEmployeesPraise

What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always thought: 'Why couldn't theater be that way? Or an opera?'

Robert Wilson

DanceMeThoughtWhyWayOpera

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.

Mary Kay Ash

ThinkYouRight

I want to understand everything so I can put myself in a position to be successful.

Jaylen Brown

MyselfI CanWantUnderstandPut

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

Jean Baudrillard

FunnyChildrenWorldRevengeNothing

Tax policy should reflect a country's values and address its problems.

Joseph Stiglitz

ProblemsValuesCountryTaxReflect

Game theory is a branch of, originally, applied mathematics, used mostly in economics and political science, a little bit in biology, that gives us a mathematical taxonomy of social life, and it predicts what people are likely to do and believe others will do in cases where everyone's actions affect everyone else.

Colin Camerer

LifeScienceMathematicsPeopleGame

A campaign is a complex organism that requires expensive parts. Finding the right parts and meshing them together into a cohesive working unit is an art in and of itself.

Peter Navarro

ArtTogetherFindingRightExpensive

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