Eric Johnston Quotes

• Beaten paths are for beaten men.

  Eric Johnston

  Inspirational, Leadership, Sports

  "Speaker's encyclopedia of stories, quotations, and anecdotes" by Jacob Braude, 1955.

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• And the word is capitalism. We are too mealy-mouthed. We fear the word capitalism is unpopular. So we talk about the free enterprise system and run to cover in the folds of the flag and talk about the American Way of Life.

  Eric Johnston

  Running, Flags, Way

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• The things a man believes most profoundly are rarely on the surface of his mind or tongue. Newly acquired notions, decisions based on expediency, the fashionable ideas of the moment are right on top of the pile, ready to be displayed in bright after dinner conversation. But the ideas that make up a man's philosophy of life are somewhere way down below.

  Eric Johnston

  Philosophy, Believe, Men

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• Most government officials are rushing headlong to solve the problems of 50 years ago, with their ears assailed by the sound of snails whizzing by.

  Eric Johnston

  Government, Years, Rushing

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• The dinosaurs's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.

  Eric Johnston

  Food, Lessons, Dinosaurs

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• If the power goes out, business stops... whether you sell roses or youre a big manufacturer.

  Eric Johnston

  Rose, Bigs, Ifs

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• The testimony of every scientist is that the frontiers that are opening out ahead of us now are far wider and more spectacular than any frontier of America in the past. Our horizons are not closed. We are going to write a greater development in America than has ever been conceived.

  Eric Johnston

  Future, Writing, Past

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• Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama.

  Eric Johnston

  Art, Drama, Greek

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