Meritocrat Quotes & Sayings

You're an asshole, you know that? Stick your finger up your butt and take a whiff. That's you. A piece of shit! — Judy Blume

I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music as a esoteric mechanism to continue my real intentions. — Anthony Braxton

Narendra Modi versus Rahul Gandhi - the pracharak versus the prince, the 'outsider' versus the 'insider', the meritocrat versus the dynast, the small-town tea boy versus the child of elite privilege. — Rajdeep Sardesai

Renowned psychologist David McClelland of Harvard wrote about three basic motivators in people's work: need for achievement, need for affiliation, and need for power. Most successful business professionals' scores on these three motivations form something of a checkmark. They tend to be moderately highly motivated by a need for achievement, not much motivated by need for affiliation, and highly motivated by a need for power. The meritocrat, by contrast, is very highly oriented toward achievement, moderately highly motivated by need for affiliation, and almost negatively motivated by need for power. That — James Waldroop

After all, the world is still great. — Irving Stone

I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself. — James Herbert

These days there's all too much coverage of pesudo-events about extraordinarily inauthentic people doing inauthentic things. — David Halberstam

No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you. — Alex Kapranos

It wasn't school that I dreaded at all. School was not half bad. In many ways, this year had been downright fun. No, what I hated most about school was the fact that I had to come here all by myself. Simon and Peter went to their classes and did their own things, and I had to do my own thing. The thing I loved about summer was that I shared it with my brothers. Sure, my brothers and I often fought, but the best times in my life came when I was with them. School was a time when I had to go and do something without a brother at my side. — Matthew Buckley

His face, illuminated by the lights, is blank, like someone vacuumed away all his personality, leaving only a mask — Gayle Forman

You have it in your power greatly to promote my happiness by your good conduct, and greatly to destroy my comfort and peace by ill conduct. — Salmon P. Chase

They know that it is human nature to take up causes whereby a man may oppress his neighbor, no matter how unjustly ... Hence they have had no trouble in finding men who would preach the damnability and heresy of the new doctrine from the very pulpit ... — Galileo Galilei

Aficionado my ass ... I just love to smoke cigars — James Woods

We are free to choose the wrong thing. — Lauren Oliver

Honor, More charged, 'is the religion of tragedy.' Emotions such as love, hate, ambition, pride, and jealousy, 'form a dazzling system of worldly morality,' which contradicts 'the spirit of that religion whose characteristics are charity, meekness, peaceableness, longsuffering, gentleness, forgiveness. — Karen Swallow Prior

Every time I've talked about my family in the past, people have ended up getting upset. So I said to my friends and family: 'I shan't refer to you at all, and there's nothing for you to get upset about. There's the deal.' — Richard Griffiths

Words raced thru his mind and his fingers ached to capture them all on paper. — Eveli Acosta