Dezmen Donaldson Quotes & Sayings

How are you to get up the sympathies of the audience in a legitimate manner, if there isn't a little man contending against a big one? — Charles Dickens

The light of the sacred prostitute penetrates to the heart of this darkness ... she is the consecrated priestess, in the temple, spiritually receptive to the feminine power flowing through her from the Goddess, and at the same time joyously aware of the beauty and passion in her human body. — Marion Woodman

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about. — Anton Chekhov

As it is pleasant to see the sea from the land, so it is pleasant for him who has escaped from troubles to think of them. — Epictetus

In mathematical analysis we call x the undetermined part of line a: the rest we don't call y, as we do in common life, but a-x. Hence mathematical language has great advantages over the common language. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Charm is that extra quality that defies description. — Alfred Lunt

Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it. — Henry Ford

People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People's heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool. — Terry Goodkind

We should work on our process, not the outcome of our processes. — W. Edwards Deming

Computers combine things to make new knowledge at such high speed that we cannot absorb it. — Orson Welles

Musicians like James Blake were a big influence on me. How he uses his vocals is amazing. And then Yeasayer and Animal Collective, who aren't pop bands exactly, but they do something that is so catchy and undeniable and so much fun. — Lorde

I don't see why any president has to talk about his belief in God. — Susan Jacoby