Cleminshaw Appraisal Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes you have to enact arbitrary rules, strange and perhaps irrational guidelines to force yourself out of a way of life so habitual it feels like instinct. — Leon Logothetis

I appreciate that bread isn't everyone's cup of tea. — Terry Pratchett

I don't want people to leave the show being upset. So if I am trying to do a new joke, and sometimes I will talk about things like gun control or hostile massacre and I notice people being upset I will change the direction. — Jim Jefferies

Ito and colleagues (2009) describe an interest trajectory for creating digital artifacts that graduate from hanging out and messing around to "geeking out." When — Daniel L. Schwartz

The qualities which technique requires for its advance are precisely those characteristics of a technical order which do not represent indivisual intelligence ... The individual, in order to make use of technical instruments, no longer needs to know about his civilization. — Jacques Ellul

Boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider; girls go to college to get more knowledge. — James C. Dobson

Watching gardeners label their plants
I vow with all beings
to practice the old horticulture
and let plants identify me. — Robert Aitken

The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people's expectations. — Julia Cameron

A good tactic is one that your people enjoy. — Saul Alinsky

If you have received a letter inviting you to speak at the dedication of a new cat hospital, and you hate cats, your reply, declining the invitation, does not necessarily have to cover the full range of your emotions. You must make it clear that you will not attend, but you do not have to let fly at the cats. The writer of the letter asked a civil question; attack cats, then, only if you can do so with good humor, good taste, and in such a way that your answer will be courteous as well as responsive. Since you are out of sympathy with cats, you may quite properly give this as a reason for not appearing at the dedicatory ceremonies of a cat hospital. But bear in mind that your opinion of cats was not sought, only your services as a speaker. Try to keep things straight. — William Strunk Jr.

Allah the Exalted loves him who forgoes worldly life, the Angels love him who rejects the vices, and the Muslims love him who gives up greediness in respect of the Muslims. — Uthman Ibn Affan

For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else. — Winston S. Churchill

Every day we, as a species, do so much to destroy Creation's ability to give us life. But that Creation continues to do everything in its power to give us life anyway. And that's true love. — Julia Hill

He knew for a fact that it was possible to fall and just keep falling. — Tom Perrotta

Of course I do my own stunts. And I also do my own lying. — Roger Moore