Charles William Eliot Quotes

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.

Charles William Eliot

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: educator
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 20, 1834 - August 22, 1926

Topics

BusinessBeliefsProceedsJudgements

There are no secrets.

John McAfee

Secrets

Emotions serve characters' purposes. That is their motivation.

Ang Lee

MotivationEmotionsServeCharacters

New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else.

Tom Holt

TechnologyUglyTomorrowNewKnows

My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events.

Lisa Ling

HopeWorldI CanEventsLevelRaise

The notion that the mind and body are actually different sides of the same coin goes all the way back to the origins of medicine. For most of its history, the practice was not separated from other aspects of human activity.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

HistoryPracticeMindMedicineBody

By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.

Dick Cavett

FatherTimePhoneLikeGradeFourth

I think film can change lives. Doing 'Milk' changed mine, for sure. When I see that someone like Harvey Milk changed his life and the lives of many others in just eight years, I feel powerful. I go out of the cinema saying, 'Maybe there's something I can do, too.'

Diego Luna

LifeChangeSayingThinkPowerful

Doctors are not always right, but they are there to help.

Brian Littrell

HelpRightAlwaysDoctors

I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort.

Christy Turlington

MyselfSmokingComfortOthersNever

I don't like being surrounded by yes men.

Brad Paisley

MenYesSurroundedBeingLike

I've never revved my car at a light for an attractive woman or an auto-rival, not even as a joke.

Penn Jillette

CarLightWomanNeverJokeEven

I hate everything which is not in myself.

Norman Mailer

MyselfHateEverythingWhich

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