Frank Gelett Burgess Quotes & Sayings

Rashness in a leader causes failure; the sailor of a ship is calm, wise at the proper time. Yes, and forethought: this too is bravery. — Euripides

People are really hesitant about expressing that they don't know something - but what's the big deal? I'm not ashamed about that at all. — Tracy McGrady

A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there. — David Gergen

Smartphones are tools which fools fiddle with when they are around people that they don't have the courage, or, the intellect, to converse with. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Scotland have this habit of kicking themselves in the foot — Alan Brazil

The best advice I got from my aunt, the great singer Rosemary Clooney, and from my dad, who was a game show host and news anchor, was: don't wake up at seventy years old sighing over what you should have tried. Just do it, be willing to fail, and at least you gave it a shot. That's echoed for me all through the last few years. — George Clooney

Signs of fatigue soon manifested themselves more and more strongly, and slowly the men dropped out one by one, from sheer exhaustion. No murmur of complaint, however, would be heard. — Fritz Kreisler

Scientific data are not taken for museum purposes; they are taken as a basis for doing something. If nothing is to be done with the data, then there is no use in collecting any. The ultimate purpose of taking data is to provide a basis for action or a recommendation for action. The step intermediate between the collection of data and the action is prediction. — W. Edwards Deming

Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member. — Earl Butz

I want to record 'Goyescas' by Granados, which has been a great love of mine since I was a teenager. — Christian McKay

The debt is like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement. All the neighbors know she's there, but nobody wants to talk about her. — Ross Perot

That's most interesting. But I was no more a mind-reader then than today. I
was weeping for an altogether different reason. When I watched you dancing that day, I saw something else. I saw a new world coming rapidly. More
scientific, efficient, yes. More cures for the old sicknesses. Very good. But a
harsh, cruel world. And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind world, one that she knew in her heart could not
remain, and she was holding it and pleading, never to let her go. That is what I saw. It wasn't really you, what you were doing, I know that. But I saw you and it broke my heart. And I've never forgotten. — Kazuo Ishiguro

Even the longest journey must begin where you stand. — Laozi

Direct attacks were foolhardy. The circumspect survived. And the deceitful prevailed. — Robert Ferrigno

Rousseau identified reason as the disease for which it pretended to be the cure. — Robert Zaretsky