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Benjamin Franklin Quotes

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Benjamin Franklin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790

Topics

Ignorant Greater Than Learned

We are watching things happen with one degree changes in ocean temperature that we thought wouldn't happen until there were two or three degree changes in ocean temperature. These are facts.

Ocean Facts Thought Things Happen

The stories we tell about each other matter very much. The stories we tell ourselves about our own lives matter. And most of all, I think the way that we participate in each other's stories is of deep importance.

Jessica Jackley

Deep Think Way Matter Tell Own

The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.

World Fate Above Our Disenchantment

In playing or managing, the game of ball is only fun for me when I'm out in front and winning. I don't give a hill of beans for the rest of the game.

Fun Me Winning Game Rest Hill

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Life Thankful Eyes Man Be Thankful

If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I'm listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won't get anything unless I get those things out of the way.

Anna Deavere Smith

Myself Day Listening Process I Can

I never claimed to be a computer engineer, but I did train as an industrial designer, and I am a consumer marketer, and I am very comfortable dealing with complex businesses and complexity in general and simplifying it - basically a systems designer.

I Am Train Comfortable Never Complex

I don't mind being a buffoon.

The hardest part about directing is getting everyone on the same page.

Page Same Everyone Hardest Directing

I've begun to realize, as I'm getting older, that I was taught to go for a certain kind of stillness to get things done. I missed that in my life. I loved my grandmother's property, out in South Georgia right above the Florida line, so I just thought I'd find some property where I could feel that again.

Life Getting Older Thought Loved

There's a romance and power to live theater.

Live Power Romance Theater

My grandpa was a preacher.

Preacher Grandpa

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