Birdseye Quotes & Sayings

Imagination tends to be truly useful if accompanied by the power of mental control - if the worlds in one's head can be purposefully manipulated and distinguished from the real one outside it. — Paul Bloom

I did not realize at the time, as I have discovered since, that anyone who attempts any thing original in this world must expect a bit of ridicule. Clarence Birdseye — Mark Kurlansky

I just want to get my music out and make sure that it's heard in the right way. — Dr. Dre

To say ... that Laetrile should not be continued to be used by those who are suffering from terminal cancer, I would have to hang my head in shame. — Luther L. Bohanon

In her opinion, Alexander Graham Bell and Clarence Birdseye are the two greatest Americans that ever lived excluding Robert E. Lee. She believes we never lost the War Between the States, that General Lee thought General Grant was the butler and just naturally handed him his sword. — Fannie Flagg

But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most ... he saw fireflies where there were none. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I'm going to wake up tomorrow and start with not caring how I feel. — Andre Agassi

I have, however, to live in an age of Faith - the sort of thing I used to hear praised and recommended when I was a boy. It is damned unpleasant, really. It is bloody in every sense of the word. And I have to keep my end up in it. Where do I start?

With personal relationships. Here is something comparatively solid in a world full of violence and cruelty. Not absolutely solid... We don't know what other people are like. How then can we put any trust in personal relationships, or cling to them in the gathering political storm? In theory we can't. But in practice we can and do. Though A is unchangeably A or B unchangeably B, there can still be love and loyalty between the two. For the purpose of loving one has to assume that the personality is solid, and the "self" is an entity, and to ignore all contrary evidence. And since to ignore evidence is one of the characteristics of faith, I certainly can proclaim that I believe in personal relationships. — E. M. Forster

Worthwhile success is impossible in a 40-hour week. — Clarence Birdseye

Go around asking a lot of dam fool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them. — Clarence Birdseye

An anxious heart weighs a man down, but a kind word cheers him up. - Proverbs 12:25 — Sue Birdseye

Like every big idea, Birdseye's breakthrough was not a single insight, but a network of other ideas, packaged together in a new configuration. What made Birdseye's idea so powerful was not simply his individual genius, but the diversity of places and forms of expertise that he brought together. — Steven Johnson

We learn more from people who are different from us than ones who are the same. — Andy Hargreaves

I am best described as just a guy with a very large bump of curiosity and a gambling instinct. — Clarence Birdseye

The art of being a great entrepreneur is finding the right balance between vision and reality. — Giff Constable