A. W. F. Edwards Quotes

Personally - I also continued my education while I was coaching, attending night school and summer school, taking correspondence courses, etc.

I try to give to most legitimate requests, but the amount of my contribution and my personal time varies greatly.

Even though I did not go into college teaching, I believe the education I did receive helped me to become a better coach.

I had to come up with some criteria to help me; i.e., what the favor was, if it was legitimate, if it was in no way compromising, and if there would be a benefit some way by my participation.

Reminiscing, with obvious emotion, on his long career: It's like the size of the crowd here today. It always surprises me. But I do appreciate it.

And I want you to know that I have had the greatest support from President Bateman. I could coach as long as I want to and never felt any pressure to reach a decision.

At some point in time it will be right for me to step aside. That may be after this year, but that may be after two or three more years.

I told Pattie that last night I dreamt that we had a press conference and nobody showed up. I am overwhelmed that so many of you are here.

Reminiscing, with obvious emotion, on his long career It has turned out a whole lot better than I ever, ever, ever dreamed.

There's nothing remotely interesting to me about marketing music as a product.

People are essentially losing their temper for things that have nothing to do with the act of driving.

You can't get away from who you are I guess.

My feeling is that nuclear is a distraction. It stops us doing what we all know we need to do invest urgently in renewables.

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.

They lyrical content has grown more introspective and less abstract. I don't know if that's good or bad... Sometimes it feels a little raw to be putting so much of myself out there.

I probably had the most fun recording For Richer For Poorer in Nashville.

I have always abhorred the business end of music.

I followed most of the 80's bands into the 90's as most of those folks who hadn't moved away were all still active. However, there was a point when I lost track of the new bands coming up.

I also spend a lot of time on political blogs, and music blogs getting things for my radio show.

Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul.

I pretty much ignored politics all through my 20′s and 30′s... I had other things on my mind... the band, finding a meaningful relationship, getting enough money to eat and pay the rent.

The Supreme Court's 1947 decision which introduced the wall of separation between church and state 'has fueled a movement to sterilize anything in American public life from religion.'

There is nothing so lowering to one's self-esteem as the affectionate contempt of a beloved cat.

The only freedom left is the freedom to starve.

All rock n roll is homosexual.

You're listening to [the songs on Random Access Memories] and they're future classics. They've brought the sound of something that's been lost for a long time.

Love the vocal on Lightning. Overall great EP. We Sink is a favorite as well.

You could spend the rest of your life trying to outlive the scars that are left by what you go through in your formative years.

Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.

Hell is truth seen too lateduty neglected in its season.

All things are ordered by God, but His providence takes in our free agency, as well as His own sovereignty.

My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil.

Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.

To possess money is very well; it may be a valuable servant; to be possessed by it is to be possessed by the devil, and one of the meanest and worst kind of devils.

We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.

Conscience is merely our own judgment of the right or wrong of our actions, and so can never be a safe guide unless enlightened by the word of God.

Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with its face toward the world.

Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past - the best evidence of regret for them that we can offer, or the world receive.

The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny

True art is reverent imitation of God.

Let your holidays be associated with great public events, and they may be the life of patriotism as well as a source of relaxation and personal employment.

The most important things cannot be measured.

A system can not understand itself.

Without theory we can only copy.

The most important measures are both unknown and unknowable.

You do not install knowledge.

We are here for an education.

It's management's job to know.

When indeed it is in God we live, and move, and have our being. We cannot draw a breath without his help.