Laskavec Quotes & Sayings

I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result profoundly humiliating to me. For it obliges me to renounce my allegiance to the Darwinian theory of the Ascent of Man from the Lower Animals; since it now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one, this new and truer one to be named the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals. — Mark Twain

They have most likely said it because they have an unmet need. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

New opportunities for innovation open up when you start the creative problem-solving process with empathy toward your target audience. TOM KELLEY, IDEO Why — Marc Goodman

White men project onto the Negro the primitive drives, the archaic powers, the uncontrolled instincts that they do not want to admit in themselves, of which they are unconscious, and that they therefore designate as the corresponding qualities of other people. — C. G. Jung

Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price. — Victor Hugo

Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors. — John Irving

Everybody's out to get something from somebody. 'Gold diggers' doesn't just mean money, it can mean time, it can mean feelings. It can mean anything when you're taking and not giving. When people don't know how to reciprocate. — Tracy Morgan

But really justice has no coordinates, no teleology. — Maggie Nelson

I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? And for the last 20 years - you've got to pick yourself up and dust yourself off and then go on your merry way and start again, in a sense, and that's what I've been doing. — Colin Hay

At 82, Nelson (who wrote the song "On the Road Again," among a thousand or more others) is the elder statesman of country music, a steadying and powerful voice in the industry and on environmental issues, and he's still on the road much of the year. The music keeps calling. — Willie Nelson

I always tell the kids that excellence is like pregnancy. You can't be a little bit pregnant. You either are or you're not. — Rafe Esquith