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Emily Greene Balch Quotes

As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so.

Emily Greene Balch

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: educator
Nationality: american
Birth: January 8, 1867 - January 9, 1961

Topics

Future Time Possibilities Too Much

Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else.

Jeffrey Sachs

Technology Ideas Deep Globalization

When I first got started in the late '70s, early '80s, and first was thinking about the interactive world, I believed so fervently that it was the next big thing, I thought it would happen quickly.

Steve Case

World Thinking Thought Early Late

Italian writer-director Paolo Sorrentino makes zombie movies, which probably comes as a surprise to him. At the center of his best and most recent pictures are the walking dead, characters in a race with themselves across mortality's finish line, their spirits arriving before the rest of them.

Steve Erickson

Best Rest Surprise Walking Pictures

In 'The Sopranos,' these guys know their best years are behind them. They have nostalgia for their old traditions. In their minds, they're looking for a time when loyalty mattered, community mattered. E Street is about community, too. People are looking for something real.

Steven Van Zandt

Community Loyalty Time Best People

Nothing is less instructive than a machine.

Simone Weil

Nothing Machine Than Less

I never advise anyone to sacrifice something else because of music, but then I don't see why they would have to anyway.

Mick Taylor

Music Sacrifice Why Never See Would

A poem is bound by language, but a poetics is not.

Joshua Cohen

Language Poem Bound

I learned from my past.

Jason Calacanis

Past Learned

Last good pratfall I did, I broke bones in both hands. I still feel it when people shake my hand.

Chevy Chase

Good People Feel Hands Hand Bones

If a door is shut, go up and wiggle it a little - don't assume it's locked.

Bob Goff

Door Go Up Little Assume Shut

One of the things is, I don't read my own press. I never watch myself.

Anne Wojcicki

Myself My Own Never Own Watch Press

We want you to find that thing that will make your life better.

Payal Kadakia

Life Better You Find Want Will