I.B. George Quotes

Every man has an atmosphere which is affecting every other.

Education, in its highest sense, is conscious training of mind or body to act unconsciously. It is conscious formation of mental habits, not mere acquisition of information.

Worry is forethought gone to seed.

This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.

It's never just a game when you're winning.

He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

I went through the usual stages: imp, rascal, scalawag, whippersnapper. And, of course, after that it's just a small step to full-blown sociopath.

It will take time to restore chaos

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas – complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemmas, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse.

Even in dreams, you could not fall forever.

Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle Earth.

Leaders are hard workers. They never expect more out of the people around them than they are willing to give themselves.

Perhaps we'll never know how far the path can go, how much a human being can truly achieve, until we realize that the ultimate reward is not a gold medal but the path itself.

Restoration and hope is available each time you return to God.

The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

Habit is stronger than reason.

The only failure is not to try.

Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche.

When I had made more money than I needed for myself and my family, I set up a foundation to promote the values and principles of a free and open society.

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

The coward never on himself relies, But to an equal for assistance flies.

The rhythms of nature - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.

An ill agreement is better then a good judgement. [An ill agreement is better than a good judgment.]

You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you can't learn it all in school.

Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.

Gentlemen never wear brown in London.

Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.

I would vote for Johnny Depp. We could use a president that could swashbuckle.

The interests of the employers and the employed are the same nine times out of ten-I will even say ninety-nine times out of ten.

'Ides of March' I did for scale - scale as a director, scale as an actor, scale as a writer.

There is a realm where the rainbow never fades

I had the idea to become really emotionally detached, and a lot of the time I've treated people that I've cared about a lot really unfairly.

Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise.