Edward Thorndike Quotes

The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.

Edward Thorndike

Recitation: by Male by Female

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KnowledgeManOthersRealDifference

Princeton was really hard. I had learned how to write well at boarding school, and I knew if I majored in English and I just did the work, I could get B's.

Robert J. Fisher

WorkSchoolWriteHardWellEnglish

I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare.

Steve Coogan

FunnyThinkYouAlwaysSeeKids

The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

NatureTimeSpaceConstructionBlack

As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world's ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide.

Steven Pinker

WorldLongGroupGenocideUpSource

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Tony Robbins

LifeLoveSuccessTodaySimpleYou

A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.

Robert Benchley

FamilyDeathNothingTryRealOut

I give up on pop music. As far as a commercial entity, as far as pop music goes, I quit; I absolutely throw in the towel. I can't handle it. I can't do it. I can't be what they need you to be.

Ry Cooder

MusicYouQuitNeedUpHandle

Traditional companies have to start looking into themselves to offer more opportunities in their companies by starting new subsidiaries and joint ventures.

Masayoshi Son

LookingStartOpportunitiesNewMore

According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.

Roy Blount, Jr.

MeaningBetweenScholarsWord

I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.

Mike Tyson

LookKnowSayWhyMessThings

You cannot eat apples planted from seeds. They must be grafted, cloned.

Michael Pollan

SeedsYouEatApplesMustCannot

Providing investors with recourse against governments is valuable.

Jose Angel Gurria

AgainstValuableProvidingRecourse

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