Silencing Your Critics Quotes & Sayings

I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking. — Joan Rivers

If you don't waste your energy on variables you cannot influence, you can focus much more effectively on those you can. When you are wisely ambitious, you do everything you can to succeed, but you are not attached to the outcome - so that if you fail, you will be maximally resilient, able to get up, dust yourself off, and get back in the fray. — Dan Harris

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms. — John Millington Synge

Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended ... Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored ... — Soren Kierkegaard

That which we expect of life is indeed all that it ever can be. — Richard Paul Evans

Its called show business, not show art. — Jean Seberg

Even more than the Pill, what has liberated women is that they no longer need to depend on men economically. — Jane Bryant Quinn

I think few people of education enter politics because it seems like a contact blood sport. — Sherry Turkle

For we, when we feel, evaporate: oh, we
breathe ourselves out and away: from ember to ember,
yielding us fainter fragrance. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Some information is classified legitimately; as with military hardware, secrecy sometimes really is in the national interest. Further, military, political, and intelligence communities tend to value secrecy for its own sake. It's a way of silencing critics and evading responsibility - for incompetence or worse. It generates an elite, a band of brothers in whom the national confidence can be reliably vested, unlike the great mass of citizenry on whose behalf the information is presumably made secret in the first place. With a few exceptions, secrecy is deeply incompatible with democracy and with science. — Carl Sagan

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck. — Hector Berlioz

My point is, why are we slaves to something that is just a set of rules? Yes, we get up at six thirty. We get to school for nine. We eat lunch at one. But why?'
'Because if we didn't there would be chaos. There would be people going to work and people eating lunch and people going to bed. Nobody would have a clue what was right and what was not. — Rachel Joyce

I keep renaming my motives, but continue doing the same things. — Mason Cooley