Matthew Boulton Quotes & Sayings

A man can laugh while he suffers. — Elie Wiesel

Even the most brilliant and rational person, in the heat of passion, seems to be absolutely and completely divorced from the person he thought he was. — Dan Ariely

Rule #4 is entitled "Think Small, Act Big." It's in this understanding of career capital and its role in mission that we get our explanation for this title. Advancing to the cutting edge in a field is an act of "small" thinking, requiring you to focus on a narrow collection of subjects for a potentially long time. Once you get to the cutting edge, however, and discover a mission in the adjacent possible, you must go after it with zeal: a "big" action. Pardis — Cal Newport

Everyone with a cell phone thinks they're a photographer. Everyone with a laptop thinks they're a journalist. But they have no training, and they have no idea of what we keep to in terms of standards, as in what's far out and what's reality. And they have no dedication to truth. — Helen Thomas

What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them? — P.G. Wodehouse

We don't need to chase a nostalgic rendering of Britain as it never was and never can be: we need instead an understanding of who we really are and what a happy, prosperous, just nation might look like. — Nick Harkaway