Lichtman Quotes & Sayings

My intent was to gain experience for fiction I eventually hoped to write. But there's no question I was drawn in by the hope that journalism would be a creative, thrilling environment. — Tom Rachman

He doesn't seem to mind at all that he's stupid about math. — Wendy Lichtman

These examples, and those that surround us every day, are why creational thinking, not critical thinking, should be our ultimate goal in education. Critical thinking is a skill that allows us to steer a valuable course through a known problem. It engages a problem-solving skill set but stops short of what is possible. If problem solving and critical thinking are the goals of education, the bar is too low. Creational thinking, the use of content while branching into the unknown, leads to the possibility of truly elegant solutions. That is where the bar needs to be, particularly in light of the challenges that lie ahead for us. — Grant Lichtman

The Indians are a marginal people in Guatemala just like I am a marginal person in the first world. — Luis Gonzalez

Our best presidents have really combined domestic leadership with heroic achievements in foreign affairs or war. — Allan Lichtman

Even if I am being conservative, I don't see how Obama can lose. — Allan Lichtman

Talk about getting off tangent. My mother's friend may have just killed his wife and my parents are sitting there talking about cows. — Wendy Lichtman

The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are known. Programs can't acquire bugs by sitting around with other buggy programs. — Harlan Mills

The argument holds no water at all, not even a thimbleful. — Allan Lichtman

[Graffiti] gets erased and painted over, and maybe it's even more beautiful because we know it won't last. — Wendy Lichtman

You can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes — Corey Taylor

My worst mistake ever. We should not talk about that penny any more, la la la."
He pulled her hands down. "We're never going to stop talking about it. That penny is one of my favorite memories."
Her mouth dropped open. "Liar! You only liked what came afterward. You hated having your penny stolen."
"True," he admitted. "But I loved the note you left me. — Thea Harrison

How do we know that there are atoms? By one of the tricks mentioned earlier: we make the hypothesis that there are atoms, and one after the other results come out the way we predict, as they ought to if things are made of atoms. There is also somewhat more direct evidence, a good example of which is the following: The — Richard Feynman

The rules, religion to religion that man set forth, made me shy away from religion and have my own one on one with God and cut out the middleman. — Ja Rule