W. L. George Quotes
The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.
In all your dealings, remember that today is your opportunity; tomorrow some other fellow's.
I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought.
The great secret of good management is to be more alert to prevent a man's going wrong than eager to punish him for it.
The world is full of bright men who know all the right things to say and who say them in the wrong place.
Beginning before you know what you want to say and keeping on after you have said it lands a merchant in a lawsuit or the poorhouse, and the first is a shortcut to the second.
Say less than the other fellow and listen more than you talk; for when a man's listening he isn't telling on himself and he's flattering the fellow who is.
It isn't what a man's got in the bank, but what he's got in his head, that makes him a great merchant.
A business man's conversation should be regulated by fewer and simpler rules than any other function of the human animal. They are: Have something to say. Say it. Stop talking.
Impersonal criticism?is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful.
Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
Nixon wasn't really considered the president by the youth of America. He was considered to be a fraud and which he proved himself to be.
The weight of a fabric is inconsequential, since seasonal dressing is all about layering.
Perhaps the safest prediction we can make about the future is that it will surprise us.
I'm not afraid to take on somebody or say something that somebody will find offensive because unfortunately in comedy, you can't say anything really good without offending somebody.
You're never going to be a Yankee for a day, or you're never going to be a Laker, but with Pro-Ams, they allow you to feel like you're a professional golfer and play under their conditions.
Finally there is someone that you can invest in that looks like you, speaks like you, relates to things you relate to, and make our culture okay to talk about.
Teachers are the most important individuals in our society - nothing is as powerful as the human touch in education.
From kindergarten to college, certain teachers engaged my curiosity and motivated me to learn. While I was not the best student, their efforts left a lasting impact.
The older you get, the less seriously you take criticism. I've gotten to a point now where I ignore it completely. It's just not relevant to me anymore.
If you look at 'Blade Runner,' it's been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it.
Luke: Boy, it's lucky you have these compartments. Han: I use them for smuggling. I never thought I'd be smuggling myself in them. This is ridiculous.
To argue against any breach of liberty from the ill use that may be made of it, is to argue against liberty itself, since all is capable of being abused.
Chemists have always been in the business of taking atoms and putting them together with other atoms with precisely defined connections.
We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said.
...though I cannot promise to take you home," said North Wind, as she sank nearer and nearer to the tops of the houses, "I can promise you it will be all right in the end. You will get home somehow.
Every soul has a landscape that changes with the wind that sweeps the sky, with the clouds that return after its rain.
To say on the authority of the Bible that God does a thing no honourable man would do, is to lie against God; to say that it is therefore right, is to lie against the very spirit of God.
The part of the philanthropist is indeed a dangerous one; and the man who would do his neighbour good must first study how not to do him evil, and must begin by pulling the beam out of his own eye.
But it is not the rich man only who is under the dominion of things; they too are slaves who, having no money, are unhappy from the lack of it.
A man may sink by such slow degrees that, long after he is a devil, he may go on being a good churchman or a good dissenter and thinking himself a good Christian.
We should teach our children to think no more of their bodies when dead than they do of their hair when cut off, or of their old clothes when they have done with them.
