Quotes of: George-w Keyword

The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people and places spring to life as if the reader was in their presence.

Simon Schama

I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.

Ulrich Beck

I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

A. N. Wilson

My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.

A. N. Wilson

I think we can question whether degrees are antediluvian. Online learning has flexibility. Why not master courses in energy, writing, communications, and engineering and get a credential?

Anant Agarwal

My one thing is I continue to be interested and want to be a student. I don't want to be a master. When I'm learning something, I'm in my element.

Chick Corea

I've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it.

John Mayer

Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something.

Luke Bryan

I was learning things in school rather than learning how to teach myself, which is what you have to do in life, so I just abandoned it and did ceramics for a year and a half.

Michael Moschen

The Internet is really about highly specialized information, highly specialized targeting.

Eric Schmidt

Some things you'll never know, and some things you'll wish you never knew.

Eric Williams

Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of economies.

Fernand Braudel

Preserving parks and open spaces is a winner because it doesn't need to be explained to everyday Americans.

Frank Luntz

The fundamental problem for Republicans when it comes to the environment is that whatever you say is viewed through the prism of suspicion.

Frank Luntz

It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.

Florence Nightingale

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

Florence Nightingale

I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic.

Grace Abbott

Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one.

Christopher Dawson

The Germanic invasions in the West could not and did not in any way alter this state of affairs.

Henri Pirenne

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

James Truslow Adams

There are more ways of skinning a cat than rubbing its fur the wrong way.

J. Carter Brown