Kenard Lang Quotes & Sayings

As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth, generalise it unduly and try to explain a whole field of nature in its narrow terms - runs riot here (in psychoanalysis). Moreover, the exaggeration of the importance of suppressed sexual complexes is a dangerous falsehood. — Sri Aurobindo

For all of us it's the things that won't work that keep our interest. — Rainer Werner Fassbinder

If it is something important, get a colleague to improve it, — David Ogilvy

I can't sing, but I know how to, which is quite different. — Noel Coward

Your job is not to be a fire killer. Your job is to prevent fires. — Sam Carpenter

The problem I have with making an intelligent statement is that some people then think it's not an isolated occurrence. — Simon Travaglia

I got a chance to work with Miles Davis, and that changed everything for me, 'cause Miles really encouraged all his musicians to reach beyond what they know, go into unknown territory and explore. It's made a difference to me and the decisions that I've made over the years about how to approach a project in this music. — Herbie Hancock

Secular cycles are the long periods - as long as decades - that come to define each market era. These cycles alternate between long-term bull and bear markets. — Barry Ritholtz

The web of trust is built at eye level, peer to peer. — Jeff Jarvis

For what are called criminals nowadays are not criminals at all. Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime. That indeed is the reason why our criminals are, as a class, so absolutely uninteresting from any psychological point of view. They are not marvellous Macbeths and terrible Vautrins. They are merely what ordinary, respectable, commonplace people would be if they had not got enough to eat. — Oscar Wilde