Polonsky Academy Quotes & Sayings

That which is useless dies. Animals that fail to serve some useful purpose in the scheme of things slowly but surely become extinct. Let any part of the human body cease to perform its ordained function, and it withers-as when an arm is kept long in a sling. This same decree, that nothing useless is permitted to survive, runs through the mind of the industrial world. — B.C. Forbes

In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner most important stages in the succession of vital phenomena. — Wilhelm Wundt

The anger or tension or whatever it was disappeared from his face and he gave me a thoughtful look. He didn't smile. Didn't even come close to it. But for just a moment, I wondered what it would take to make him. Curiosity was a killer. — Kylie Scott

(For songwriters) Development of your facility as a musician is also important. — Ryan Cayabyab

I'm gonna be unemployed when people read this. Ha. — Marlee Matlin

I have happened in so many places, to so many people - the essence of me lives on in these nuances, these moments. — Lang Leav

What chance does a five-foot-seven billionaire Jew who's divorced really have of becoming president? — Michael Bloomberg

A finished work is exactly that, requires resurrection. — John Cage