Often Quotes

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant to look at and handle, that can last decades, even centuries.

Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily dangerous.

For me an unfavorable initial reaction happens fairly often.

Often ironic and self-deprecating – are always spoken that take on other meanings when uttered by others.

Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.

I certainly wasn’t happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can’t earn, and can’t keep, and often don’t even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

Often you see people on the red carpet with tight up-dos, but that makes me feel stiff.

Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.

I was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn’t let you play with.