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Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
by Walter Lippmann (Journalist, American , born in 1889) keywords: ages, cannot, custom, insight, moralist, must, necessarily, preach, prophecy, rather, reveal, revealed, seek, taught, teach, than , unsettled I was fortunate to be part of a very successful show on CBS in 1986. I switched to NBC for eight years and through these experiences have gotten terrific insight into television; it's a fascinating medium.
by Will McDonough (Writer, American , born in 1935) keywords: cbs, eight, experiences, fascinating, fortunate, gotten, insight, into, medium, nbc, part, show, successful, switched, television, terrific, these, through, very , years As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.
by Marshall McLuhan (Sociologist, Canadian , born in 1911) keywords: affair, arts, becomes, collective, direction, increasingly, insight, into, means, modern, most, our, own, provide, purposes, rather, real, social, techniques, technological, than, unity, valuable , world It has given me an insight into what it's like as an actor to come into a show in the middle of a production and fit into a group that's already established.
by Corin Nemec (Actor, American , born in 1971) keywords: actor, already, come, established, fit, given, group, insight, into, middle, production , show Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.
by Robert Reed (Actor, American , born in 1932) keywords: adult, arms, before, book, came, deal, development, ends, everything, farewell, fiction, first, great, hemingway, insight, meant, novel, read, reading, said, science, terms, those, times, well , where Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
by Agnes Repplier (Writer, American , born in 1855) topics: Humor keywords: brings, deeper, friendly, humor, insight, irony, less, tolerance , understanding The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
by Harold Rosenberg (Writer, American , born in 1906) keywords: being, claims, culture, drowned, each, education, insight, keep, new, offer, purpose, repetitions, senseless , which Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.
by Bertrand Russell (Philosopher, British , born in 1872) keywords: been, brotherly, destruction, excuse, insight, into, love, made, mass, means, our, persecution, profoundest, religions, scientific, teach , used To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight, and to know in our hearts that all these things come from God, which is why we should never get too cocky about our successes.
by Tony Snow (Journalist, American , born in 1955) keywords: believe, cocky, come, confers, enough, faith, get, god, hearts, insight, know, little, lucky, never, our, power, should, special, successes, these, things, those, too, truth, which , why It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Author, Russian , born in 1918) keywords: accords, because, comfortable, course, difficult, easiest, emotions, especially, insight, make, mistakes, most, ones, our, see, seek, selfish, too, truth, us , where The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.
by Charles Stanley (Clergyman, American , born in 1932) keywords: believers, best, cloak, conveys, deceive, declare, god, insight, language, message, new, religious, some, way , world The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.
by Edward Steichen (Photographer, American , born in 1879) keywords: art, artist, content, creates, distillation, experience, form, gives, ideas, insight, least, medium, misleading, photography, say, term, thought, understanding, use , work As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns.
by Joseph E. Stiglitz (Economist, American , born in 1943) keywords: concerned, difficulty, early, economics, getting, information, insight, lecture, nobel, noted, pay, problem, returns, those , work I recognized that information was, in many respects, like a public good, and it was this insight that made it clear to me that it was unlikely that the private market would provide efficient resource allocations whenever information was endogenous.
by Joseph E. Stiglitz (Economist, American , born in 1943) keywords: clear, efficient, good, information, insight, made, many, market, private, provide, public, recognized, resource, respects, unlikely, whenever , would Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.
by Charles Sturt (Explorer, Australian , born in 1795) keywords: communication, customs, every, evident, fail, insight, insure, interior, into, joined, kindly, kindness, little, natives, necessary, now, patience, seldom , will Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
by Peter Ustinov (Actor, English , born in 1921) keywords: based, cases, courage, cowardice, good, information, insight, lack, many, often , whereas Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
by Edmund Wilson (Critic, American , born in 1895) keywords: any, engine, genius, insight, moral, motor, real, start, which , will The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
by Woodrow Wilson (President, American , born in 1856) keywords: conditions, insight, instrument, interpretation, life, method, nice, political, science, subtle , understanding
