Reith Quotes & Sayings

I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of. — Kate Smith

Self-awareness is a trait that not only makes us human but also paradoxically makes us want to be more than merely human. As I said in my BBC Reith Lectures, Science tells us we are merely beasts, but we don't feel like that. We feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, forever craving transcendence — V.S. Ramachandran

He who prides himself on giving what he thinks the public wants is often creating a fictitious demand for low standards which he will then satisfy. — John Reith, 1st Baron Reith

The determined fixing of our will upon God, and pressing toward him steadily and without deflection; this is the very center and the art of prayer. — Evelyn Underhill

In general, fakirs, like scribes and potters, are sitting down, when he's standing up, a fakir is just like an other man, and sitting down, he'll be smaller than the others — Jose Saramago

When someone pursues music through your music, that's the greatest accolade anybody can get. — Rick Springfield

Silence And a deeper silence When the crickets Hesitate — Leonard Cohen

There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by. — George Meredith

Not knowing the answer to a question is not a valid excuse for making up a fairytale to explain it. — Armin Navabi

By the time the civil service has finished drafting a document to give effect to the principle, there may be little of the principle left. — John Reith, 1st Baron Reith

I've never really learned how to live and I've discovered too late that life is for living. — John Reith, 1st Baron Reith

...like many another self-educated man, he attached an exaggerated importance to the knowledge he had so painfully acquired and could not resist the temptation to parade it,... — W. Somerset Maugham

For hardly any of the ecclesiastical writers have handled the Divine Scriptures more ineptly and absurdly than Origen and Jerome. — Martin Luther

Behavior must also be adequately assessed under appropriate circumstances. Ill-defined global measures of perceived self-efficacy or defective assessments of performance will yield discordances. Disparities will also arise when efficacy is judged for performances in actual situations but performance is measured in simulated situations that are easier to deal with than the actualities — Albert Bandura