Lincoln Steffens Quotes

The typical American citizen is the business man. The typical business man is a bad citizen; he is busy. If he is a 'big business man' and very busy, he does not neglect; he is busy with politics, oh, very busy and very businesslike.

Lincoln Steffens

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 6, 1866 - August 9, 1936

Topics

BusinessPoliticsManBusyAmerican

If you believe that the greatest challenge you've got is credibility, then the way you get that is you earn it, right? That's not something that any set of policy makers can bestow.

Joe Kennedy III

ChallengeBelieveYouWayRight

Always try the problem that matters most to you.

Andrew Wiles

ProblemYouTryMattersAlwaysMost

If we can listen to English music without understanding nothing, and dance on it, and feel the groove, feel the feelings, I'm sure everybody can do exactly the same for each language.

Stromae

MusicDanceLanguageUnderstanding

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

Joseph Campbell

DreamsMythsPublicPrivate

Centenarians tend to be assertive, suspicious, and practical.

David Shields

AssertivePracticalSuspiciousTend

I think Gingrich has embarrassed the party over time. Whether he'll do it again in the future, I don't know. But Gov. Romney never has.

Chris Christie

FutureTimeThinkPartyKnowNever

I've certainly had a number of failures along the way, depending on my own instincts and creativity, some fairly celebrated, at least during their time.

Bob Iger

TimeCreativityWayMy OwnOwnSome

People talk about loyalty of players to clubs. But in the everyday world, you don't see people being loyal to their company when they're getting offered considerably better deals elsewhere.

Brian O'Driscoll

LoyaltyPeopleWorldBetterYouSee

If dark matter and dark energy are 95 percent of everything, shouldn't we all be asking questions about that? What does that look like?

Shea Hembrey

EnergyQuestionsLookDarkMatter

I personally always have a hard time relating to queer characters in media because I didn't really see myself in them. They were kind of pigeonholed early on as the gay character, and they would naturally end up with the other gay character who would emerge at some point as their love interest.

Noelle Stevenson

LoveCharacterTimeMyselfEndGay

Anyone who says he is an expert in the market is lying to you. There is no such thing.

Mark Cuban

YouLyingExpertMarketWhoHe

Even when they have a star that they're going after, casting directors love, if anything, just the excuse to see people. They like to have a dugout full of actors that they can go to.

Kyle Bornheimer

LovePeopleGoSeeAnythingStar

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