Leo Rosten Quotes

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.

Leo Rosten

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 11, 1908 - February 19, 1997

Topics

HelpYouProfessionalReasonBeing

You might think that shifting your thoughts is as easy as setting your mind to it. But stressful thoughts aren't held in place through choice or will power. They're held in place through perceived truth value.

Andrew J. Bernstein

TruthPowerValueMindThoughtsYou

I always knew I was brainy. It struck me when I was a child that I wanted to be an adult because I never felt I belonged among children whose minds were so much simpler than mine.

Maximillian Degenerez

ChildrenChildMeBrainyNeverMine

What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality.

Stephen Jay Gould

TimeBiologyNaturalBeenOddAbout

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Robert Frost

WorkWorstDiseaseEgotismSupposed

Anytime there's originality and comedy combined, it's very potent for people who love comedy.

Martin Short

LovePeopleComedyOriginalityWho

Life has been good to me. It's not like I missed an awful lot. I had a pretty good lick here. Every moment gets a little more important.

Michael Landon

LifeGoodMomentMeImportantMore

Basically, I want to make all of humanity more efficient by exploiting the human cycles that get wasted.

Luis von Ahn

HumanityWantMoreHumanWastedGet

There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.

Louis Leakey

ArtEvidenceShowTragicPrehistoric

As a matter of record, New York City spends a higher portion of its budget on instruction and associated costs within the schools themselves than any of the other 100 largest districts in the nation.

Jonathan Kozol

New YorkCityBudgetNewMatter

When I go out shopping and pass a bookstore, I always grab a couple of cookbooks, so I have a library of them. I end up keeping many that I got years and years ago because they work so well.

Johnny Mathis

WorkShoppingLibraryEndGoOut

You might say, 'Can't we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?' In this way we'd become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.

Pope Francis

CakeSweetYouNiceTrueBecome

I believe vitamin C can fix everything.

Shawn Mendes

BelieveI BelieveFixEverything

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