I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes.
The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy.
I actually think I play better now than I've ever played.
When I look at my daughter, who's 24, she is much more confident than I ever was and her expectations are higher. But I worry that there is a backlash brewing against progress on equality.
Between 1995 and 2009, Western Europe's entrepreneurs created jobs faster than the U.S. did, and European economies exported more than the BRIC countries of Brazil, Russia, India and China. Eastern Europe's productivity increased more rapidly than East Asia's.
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
Health care comprises nearly 20 percent of our national economy, but outdated bureaucracy and red tape have stifled competition and raised costs. As a result, today more than 45 million are without any health coverage.
History shows that there is no more potent engine for reform than the passion of voters who feel betrayed by the politicians they hoped would do the right thing.
Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.
I come from the kind of family where work is work; my parents always taught me that it's better to be doing something than sitting around doing nothing.
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
A lot of people think that persuasion is all about values and aligning values. I largely disagree. I think persuasion generally, and political persuasion more particularly, has much more to do with explaining in new ways and connecting dots in new ways than just invoking emotions and values.
Nobody sees reality whole; we all need others to show us the parts of it that they see better than we do. Nobody sees reality with total accuracy; we all need others to correct our own vision.
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
One way for investors to protect themselves from a rapid change in the price of a stock is to use a limit order rather than a market order.
The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. And you know what's worse than a soldier dying in vain? It's more soldiers dying in vain. That's what's worse.
Never were two people more opposite in sentiment than my companions.
Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.
If there's anything I'd hate as a son-in-law, it's an actor; and if there's anything I think I'd hate worse than an actor as a son-in-law, it's an English actor.
Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
I get bored. We seem to have been having a little bit more time off this winter than last winter. I'm always itching to get back in the car. It's going to get harder, so I've got to make sure that I'm doing everything I possibly can do to make sure I can start next season how I ended this season.
I'd give my right arm to be, like, a random extra on 'Girls,' just to walk past one of the scenarios. I'd love that more than anything.
You can't watch 'Daredevil' or 'Jessica Jones' or the Marvel films and not be aware that the villain has to be awesome. I've always wanted to have more space. And the scope, morally, is more broad for the villain than the hero.
The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.
If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier.
It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
I've probably put up with more criticism than a lot of people out there. At the end of the day, you block out everything, especially with your personal life.
It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
All know the importance of sustaining the hopes of a sick man. The reason of this is that his nervous system is then, vastly more than in health, susceptible to the influence of particular states of the mind.
From the age of 12, I had an understanding that singing was something I loved to do more than anything, and I did say to myself, 'Why not?' But there were definitely some doubts along the way.
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.
I have major sleeping problems. I'd rather be up thinking about things than actually sleeping.
