Kenneth Quotes

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

So I've broadened the fitness concept to make it one of moderation and balance.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

Cash is very easy to hide. It's easy to hoard. It's easy to move, especially these large bills.

There are days when the result is so bad that no fewer than five revisions are required. In contrast, when I'm greatly inspired, only four revisions are needed.

Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clenches his fist.

Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.

It's easier and more cost effective to maintain good health, than to regain it once it's lost.

Because of Christ, even our catastrophes have purpose. God is preparing our character for the time when we will see Him face to face.

If there is anything material and we're not reporting it, we'll be breaking the law. We don't break the law.

Investors don't like uncertainty.

To solve these problems one needs as much an understanding of politics as an understanding of man - and the one cannot be derived from the other.

Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust.

The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us.

I do not see the E.E.C. [European Economic Community] as a great love affair. It's more like nine middle aged couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope.

All of life is more or less what the French would call s'imposer, to be able to create one's own terms for what one does.

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who seek God and those who seek to avoid him... and both will be successful.

Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.

It is not His teachings which make Jesus so remarkable, although these would be enough to give Him distinction. It is a combination of the teachings with the man Himself. The two cannot be separated.

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

In a zero-sum game, the problem is entirely one of distribution, not at all one of production.

No nice philosophical point has ever been so decisively resolved as this: that those who are not conceived do not miss the pleasure of consuming the goods they do not get born to enjoy.

They say Im demonic in humor in the sense that I think people need somebody to wake up their mental processes.

Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories.

Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine.

Investors who find the best businesses to put their money behind are rewarded for their research.

Risk is what you make of it.

We all walk in different shoes.

The Cathedrals were built to the glory of God; New York was built to the glory of Mammon.

Private enterprise did not get us atomic energy.

You see more and more why healing is happening through music. It's because music causes a reorganization of the tonal structure, and Man in essence is a vibration

Do I not deal with angels When her lips I touch.

Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.

I am certainly not a blogger. Quite a large proportion of them are nuts and extremists - with the honourable exception of the culture secretary.

You learn nothing if you carry with you a journalistic system of values, which is invented to save reporters from experience.

The believer does not use God's power; God's power uses him.

Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one's insistence that he possesses it.

Poverty" Pitt exclaimed "is no disgrace but it is damned annoying." In the contemporary United States it is not annoying but it is a disgrace.

Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked.

Creativity is the very source and the wonder of your experience.

The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.

The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.

You can make one (self-contained self-rescuer) that would last all day, but you'd have to carry it behind in a wagon.

Think enough and you won't know anything.

Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable.

It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.

It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved.

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

What's increasingly clear is that when you are open to a discussion of leadership, and you're relating it to your company, it is much easier to get people to become open.