Best Famous Quotes by: Walter Benjamin, Ernest Benn, Tony Bennet, Arnold Bennett, Robert F. Bennett, Thomas Arnold Bennett, William J. Bennett, William John Bennett, Warren Bennis, Jack Benny, A. C. Benson, Stella Benson, Taylor Benson, Eric Bentley, Jon Bentley, Eric Bently, Richard Bently, Nina Berberova, Edward M. Berckman, Bernard Berenson, Elizabeth Berg, Jason Berg, Bergen, Candice Bergen, Edgar Bergen, John Berger, P.L. Berger, Sally Berger, Thomas Berger, and Cyrano Savinien de Bergerac

Best Walter Benjamin Quotes: The most famous quotes by Walter Benjamin

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope. — Walter Benjamin

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance. — Walter Benjamin

Best Ernest Benn Quotes: The most famous quotes by Ernest Benn

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. — Ernest Benn

Best Tony Bennet Quotes: The most famous quotes by Tony Bennet

I think one of the reasons I’m popular again is because I’m wearing a tie. You have to be different. — Tony Bennet

Best Arnold Bennett Quotes: The most famous quotes by Arnold Bennett

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. — Arnold Bennett

Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened. — Arnold Bennett

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. — Arnold Bennett

The moment you’re born you’re done for. — Arnold Bennett

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. — Arnold Bennett

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn’t block traffic. — Arnold Bennett

‘And yet,’ demanded Councilor Barlow, ‘what’s he done Has he ever done a day’s work in his life What great cause is he identified with’ ‘He’s identified,’ said the first speaker, ‘with the great cause of cheering us all up.’ — Arnold Bennett

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one’s sympathy the gloom of somebody else. — Arnold Bennett

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others. — Arnold Bennett

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. — Arnold Bennett

Best Robert F. Bennett Quotes: The most famous quotes by Robert F. Bennett

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself. — Robert F. Bennett

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control. — Robert F. Bennett

Best Thomas Arnold Bennett Quotes: The most famous quotes by Thomas Arnold Bennett

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. — Thomas Arnold Bennett

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. — Thomas Arnold Bennett

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive. — Thomas Arnold Bennett

Best William J. Bennett Quotes: The most famous quotes by William J. Bennett

We don’t need more assault rifles on our streets right now. — William J. Bennett

Best William John Bennett Quotes: The most famous quotes by William John Bennett

The shortage of student loans may require … divestiture of certain sorts-stereo divestiture, automobile divestiture, three-weeks-at-the-beach divestiture. — William John Bennett

Our common language is … English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language. — William John Bennett

The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed. — William John Bennett

If my own son, who is now 10 months, came to me and said, ‘You promised to pay for my tuition at Harvard how about giving me 50,000 instead to start a little business’ I might think that was a good idea. — William John Bennett

Most certification today is pure ‘credentialism.’ It must begin to reflect our demand for excellence, not our appreciation of parchment. — William John Bennett

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. — William John Bennett

The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people. — William John Bennett

Best Warren Bennis Quotes: The most famous quotes by Warren Bennis

Good leaders make people feel that they’re at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning. — Warren Bennis

The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic, something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom–as something they thought was almost a necessity. It’s as if at that moment the iron entered their soul that moment created the resilience that leaders need. — Warren Bennis

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. — Warren Bennis

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish. — Warren Bennis

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary. — Warren Bennis

Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them. — Warren Bennis

Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line. — Warren Bennis

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard. — Warren Bennis

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out. — Warren Bennis

What makes a good follower The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not. Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination. — Warren Bennis

Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions. — Warren Bennis

The factory of the future will have two employees a man and a dog. The man’s job will be to feed the dog. The dog’s job will be to prevent the man from touching any of the automated equipment. — Warren Bennis

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led. — Warren Bennis

You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future. — Warren Bennis

Best Jack Benny Quotes: The most famous quotes by Jack Benny

I don’t deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don’t deserve that either. — Jack Benny

Growing old is a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. — Jack Benny

Best A. C. Benson Quotes: The most famous quotes by A. C. Benson

One’s mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do. — A. C. Benson

I am sure it is one’s duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one’s own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this. — A. C. Benson

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow. — A. C. Benson

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way. — A. C. Benson

All the best stories are but one story in reality–the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape. — A. C. Benson

Best Stella Benson Quotes: The most famous quotes by Stella Benson

Call no man foe, but never love a stranger. — Stella Benson

Best Taylor Benson Quotes: The most famous quotes by Taylor Benson

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. — Taylor Benson

Best Eric Bentley Quotes: The most famous quotes by Eric Bentley

Ours is the age of substitutes instead of language, we have jargon instead of principles, slogans and instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas. — Eric Bentley

Best Jon Bentley Quotes: The most famous quotes by Jon Bentley

Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but incredible stupidity can usually be traced to an organization. — Jon Bentley

Best Eric Bently Quotes: The most famous quotes by Eric Bently

Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsqequently turns its back on bad and good alike. — Eric Bently

Best Richard Bently Quotes: The most famous quotes by Richard Bently

No man is demolished but by himself. — Richard Bently

Best Nina Berberova Quotes: The most famous quotes by Nina Berberova

I had learnt to seek intensitymore of life, a concentrated sense of life. — Nina Berberova

Best Edward M. Berckman Quotes: The most famous quotes by Edward M. Berckman

We are meant to be addicted to God, but we develop secondary addictions that temporarily appear to fix our problem. — Edward M. Berckman

Best Bernard Berenson Quotes: The most famous quotes by Bernard Berenson

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. — Bernard Berenson

Miracles happen to those who believe in them. — Bernard Berenson

Best Elizabeth Berg Quotes: The most famous quotes by Elizabeth Berg

There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if most of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put their finger in a dike, take up their place in a working line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens. — Elizabeth Berg

Best Jason Berg Quotes: The most famous quotes by Jason Berg

From the highest mountains in the world, Men seek for higher places to climb, When in their heart, It is where the climb always continues. — Jason Berg

Best Bergen Quotes: The most famous quotes by Bergen

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt. — Bergen

Best Candice Bergen Quotes: The most famous quotes by Candice Bergen

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more. — Candice Bergen

Best Edgar Bergen Quotes: The most famous quotes by Edgar Bergen

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance — Edgar Bergen

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. — Edgar Bergen

Best John Berger Quotes: The most famous quotes by John Berger

Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon. — John Berger

We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were. — John Berger

Best P.L. Berger Quotes: The most famous quotes by P.L. Berger

In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence. — P.L. Berger

Best Sally Berger Quotes: The most famous quotes by Sally Berger

You never saw a fish on the wall with its mouth shut. — Sally Berger

Best Thomas Berger Quotes: The most famous quotes by Thomas Berger

Why do writers write Because it isn’t there. — Thomas Berger

Best Cyrano Savinien de Bergerac Quotes: The most famous quotes by Cyrano Savinien de Bergerac

A kiss is a rosy dot over the ‘i’ of loving. — Cyrano Savinien de Bergerac

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone. — Cyrano Savinien de Bergerac

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