Glengarry Glen Ross Play Quotes & Sayings

The problems of the past.
How the problems of the past, uncorrected, inevitably became the problems of the future. — Erika Johansen

In the game of life, when the final buzzer sounds, the only stat you carry with you is the number of assists you made. — Michael Bloomberg

Regardless of your ethnicity or anything, if you do great work, people will notice and you'll get hired. — Aziz Ansari

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit. — Thomas Henry Huxley

Dirk, stunning the man. Borric shoved the third bruiser hard into a fat merchant — Raymond E. Feist

To handle the economy and services in a country like Iraq requires delegation of authority and the choice of competent people. — Ahmed Chalabi

The value judgments we make determine our actions, and upon their validity rests our mental health and happiness. — Erich Fromm

Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not — Plato

I'm really 95 percent Mr. Rogers, and only 5 percent Oscar the Grouch.' — George Steinbrenner

We carry with us the weight of the past, and because we do not have a finely developed sense of history and historicism, it is a past that is still alive in our present. We wear the dust of history on our foreheads, and the mud of the future on our feet. — Shashi Tharoor

A revolution cannot progress without the fuel of terror. With time that relationship inverts: the revolution presses forward for the sake of terror. Like an artist, the man creating terror should be detached, cold-blooded. He must keep in mind that the energy of the terror he releases can consume him. — Young-Ha Kim

I was doing a play out in L.A. 20-some-odd years ago called 'Goose and Tomtom' by David Rabe, and somebody saw it and the next thing I know I'm doing the table read of the film version of 'Glengarry Glen Ross' with Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon - one of the great films of our generation. — Richard Schiff

We grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate — Ilya Prigogine

Augusta is a very unique golf course. It's a long hitters' course; main reason is because the greens are so severe, and the areas where they put the pin is such a small area. The little plateaus and undulations mean it's incredibly important to be close to that pin so you can be aggressive. — Fred Funk

I was 24 when I was offered 'Doomwatch.' There was an option for a further series, and I turned it down. It is a wonderfully glorious thing to be unknowingly arrogant. — Robert Powell