Pohlad Foundation Quotes & Sayings

I think often I learn the most from other people's mistakes. If I'm in the audience watching an actor and thinking, 'I don't believe you,' I spend the rest of the play working out why I don't believe them. — Richard Madden

It always seemed to me that [Henry James] had a kind of rush of words to the head and never stopped to sort them out properly. — Christopher Morley

This experience sufficiently illuminates the truth that free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, — Augustine Of Hippo

WITCHES LIVED AND WERE BURNED LONG BEFORE the development of modern medical technology. The great majority of them were lay healers serving the peasant population, and their suppression marks one of the opening struggles in the history of man's suppression of women as healers. The other side of the suppression of witches as healers was the creation of a new male medical profession, under the protection and patronage of the ruling classes. This new European medical profession played an important role in the witch hunts, supporting the witches' persecutors with "medical" reasoning: — Barbara Ehrenreich

I think everyone needs to try their first script, and usually the first one isn't as good. You learn so much as you're trying to figure it out. — Scot Armstrong

It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so. — William Whitelaw

I'm not a big fan of being a victim. I don't like getting beaten up. — David Haye

Many people are starting to realize that they work a lot and that working on stuff they believe in (and making things happen) is much more satisfying then just getting a paycheck and waiting to get fired (or die). — Seth Godin

I usually start by doing one or more color studies of the subject on a piece of canvas taped to cardboard. — Mary Beth McKenzie

I was wrong last night. Kyler isn't just trouble. He's an apocalypse-level disaster waiting to happen. I need to find some fallout shelter to hide in. And quick. — Siobhan Davis

When I tell people the story of Henrietta Lacks and her cells, their first question is usually Wasn't it illegal for doctors to take Henrietta's cells without her knowledge? Don't doctors have to tell you when they use your cells in research? The answer is no - not in 1951, and not in 2009, when this book went to press. Today — Rebecca Skloot

A kitchen that's too clean has no soul. No flavor. — Deborah Smith

Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Trust to Transform. LET GO ... like a Caterpillar that eventually turns into a beautiful Butterfly. — R.v.m.

We have very similar brains. But they come out in different personalities. — Guy Berryman