Quotes of: Political-process Keyword

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

Theodore Roosevelt

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

John Major

Happens I am very political. I have deep political instincts.

Will Ferrell

My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.

Yo-Yo Ma

We can't be politically correct - right or left - in the war on terrorism. Period.

David Hunt

The concurrence of two elements is necessary for bringing about a revolution; and by revolution I do not mean the street warfare, nor the bloody conflicts of two parties—both being mere incidents dependent upon many circumstances—but the sudden o...

Pyotr Kropotkin

I call it treason against rock 'n' roll because rock is the antithesis of politics. Rock should never be in bed with politics. ... When I was a kid and my parents started talking about politics, I'd run to my room and put on the Rolling Stones as lou...

Alice Cooper

The creative processes are so mysterious.

Jimmy Webb

This life is a process of learning.

Lauryn Hill

The fallacy that dynamic processes must be modeled as if the system is in continuous equilibrium is probably the most important reason for the intellectual failure of neoclassical economics. Mathematics, science and engineering developed tools long a...

Adbusters #84 Pop Nihilism

Attitude is the first quality that marks the successful man. If he has a positive attitude and is a positive thinker, who likes challenges and difficult situations, then he has half his success achieved.

The Success Journey: The Process of Living Your Dreams

When you consider time and change, you realize that a people does not originate when individuals merge into a bigger thing. Instead, a people arises when many actions and movements combine into novel patterns of change. For a people is always in the ...

The Time of Popular Sovereignty: Process and the Democratic State

Charles Darwin's only mistake was in not being a physicist, because the entire process of evolution started before our planet formed, with the event called the big bang, at this point our knowledge is such that I can hazard this further observation, ...

Steve Merrick

In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I never once felt brave. In fact, I often felt scared to death. I never lost those feelings, but after much practice, I learned to ignore them. That learn...

Ben Horowitz

I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.

V. S. Naipaul

Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

Fletcher Knebel

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

Oliver Twist

If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.

What I Think: Essays on Economics, Politics, & Life

Yesterday's abomination is today's rule.

You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity

I'm not politically committed at all in the popular sense; that is, to any party. I'm committed to whatever's best for the normal working person. I'm not a great fan of politics.

Frank Oz

Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey and about issues.

Matt Taibbi