Quotes for All
There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed. Ezra Pound
As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so. Emily Greene Balch
It will take a long time for women’s effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it. Florence Ellinwood Allen
The right for the right’s sake is the motto which everyone should take for his own life. With that as a standard of value we can descend into our hearts, appraise ourselves, and determine in how far we already are moral beings, in how far not yet. Felix Adler
How can we appraise a proposal if the terms hurled at our ears can mean anything or nothing, and change their significance with the inflection of the voice? Welfare state, national socialism, radical, liberal, conservative, reactionary and a regiment of others … these terms in today’s usage, are generally compounds of confusion and prejudice. If … Read more
Most headlines are set too big to be legible in the magazines or newspaper. Never approve a layout until you have seen it pasted into the magazine or newspaper for which it was destined. If you pin up the layouts on a bulletin board and appraise them from fifteen feet, you will produce posters. David … Read more
In judgement be ye not too confident, Even as a man who will appraise his corn When standing in a field, ere it is ripe. Dante Alighieri
…not all encounters with the world affect the mind equally. Studies have demonstrated that if the brain appraises an event as meaningful, it will be more likely to be recalled in the future. Daniel J. Siegel
The tax incentives are things the music business can emulate. If I own Yesterday by the Beatles and I go to a bank and try to borrow $10,000 and use that song as collateral, they wouldn’t know what to do. They would run me out of the bank. Whereas if we get specialized people who … Read more
I have concluded that most PhD economists under appraise the power of the common-stock-based wealth effect, under current extreme conditions… Wealth effects involve mathematical puzzles that are not nearly so well worked out as physics theories and never can be… What has happened in Japan over roughly the last ten years has shaken up academic … Read more