Al Lewis Quotes

During that time, I began writing and designing the propaganda that we distributed to the students who we were trying to convince to join us.

I would have to say that my mother's entrepreneurial perspective, and that of her father's, are very evident in my own outlook.

By the time I entered this prestigious high school, my interest in formal education had already been exhausted.

It's the "Success Paradox." When a set of behaviors has gotten you somewhere, you keep doing them even though the circumstances have changed.

Thinking like others is ok for things that are not important to you.

I've got better things to do than to find my individuality in that particular area. But if it's important to me, I've got to seek my own path.

One of the easiest ways to solve your problems is to look at how others have solved a similar problem. So, in this regard, we are using the same thinking of others.

But, to the extent that I cannot solve MY problem with the same thinking I used when I created it, you're right. We need the fresh air that comes from others to see things in other ways.

That doesn't mean we should be doing it, though. We should always be carving back those things that are comfortable and institutionalized but not necessarily impactful.

CEOs are no different than the guy in the mailroom. They all have to learn how to manage better the risk created by our increasingly risk-shifting world.

It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter

Most of the prisoners told the interpreter that they are from Mandingo.

Given any new technology for transmitting information, we seem bound to use it for great quantities of small talk. We are only saved by music from being overwhelmed by nonsense.

We are educated to be amazed by the infinite variety of life forms in nature. We are, I believe, only at the beginning of being flabbergasted by its unity.

The whole dear notion of one's own Self-marvelous old free-willed, free- enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self- is a myth.

We are spectacular splendid manifestations of life. We have language. We have affection. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.

I will confess that I have no more sense of what goes on in the mind of mankind than I have for the mind of an ant.

Chemical waste products are the droppings of science.

It's just plain learning something that you didn't know. There is a real aesthetic experience in being dumbfounded.

It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance.

It is not a simple life to be a single cell, although I have no right to say so, having been a single cell so long ago myself that I have no memory at all of that stage of my life.

If we have learned anything at all in this century, it is that all new technologies will be put to use, sooner or later, for better or worse, as it is in our nature to do.

Everything here is alive thanks to the living of everything else.

Left to ourselves, mechanistic and autonomic, we hanker for friends.

If we are to be destroyed we will do it ourselves by warfare with thermonuclear weaponry.

Any species capable of producing, at this earliest, juvenile stage of its development... the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, cannot be all bad.

We pass thoughts around, from mind to mind, so compulsively and with such speed that the brains of mankind often appear, functionally, to be undergoing fusion.

It is my belief, based partly on personal experience but partly also arrived at by looking around at others, that childhood lasts considerably longer in the males of our species than in the females.

In the fields I know best, among the life sciences, it is required that the most expert and sophisticated minds be capable of changing course - often with a great lurch - every few years.

The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.

Most things get better by themselves. Most things, in fact, are better by morning.

We have yet to learn how to retain our humaneness when assembled in masses.

Some of the shrewdest insight into natural processes have been greeted at the outset by the exclamation 'But that's ridiculous'.

Man is embedded in nature.

It is in our collective behavior that we are most mysterious.

Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective.

I regard it as ethically unacceptable and impractical to censor any aspect of trying to understand the nature of our world.

The most important thing to understand about your pension is it only really counts on the day you put money in and the day you take money out.

Most savings rates are based on underlying interest rates.

It's a sensible rule that says before you get a mortgage it should be checked whether you can afford it.

Savings is no longer about the markets, they're about playing the product game.

The experimenter dealing with nature faces an outside and often hard world. Natures' curriculum cannot be changed.

They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports.

My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.

Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.

I love making people laugh.

I've always been partial to comedy. I love the idea of working on a comedic scene.

Approaching a comedy character is fun because you get to sit down with the director and ask, "What makes you laugh?" Then you end up bouncing ideas off each other.

My parents are proud of me being an actor.

The thing that inspires me about Daniel Radcliffe and the thing that I admire the most about him is that he's had a level of fame thrust upon him that's relatively unheard of.