Chiefs Quotes - Page 36

• Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.

  Bill Vaughan

  Humility, Embroidery

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• Many celebrations are set to take place in Swarnim Gujarat. However, if one asks me, "As the Chief Minister, which is your favourite programme?" Then friends, I would like to say that 'Vanche Gujarat' is the closest to my heart.

  Narendra Modi

  Heart, Empowerment, India

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• For America, the chief geopolitical prize is Eurasia... Now a non-Eurasian power is preeminent in Eurasia - and America's global primacy is directly dependent on how long and how effectively its preponderance on the Eurasian continent is sustained.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  America, Long, Continents

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2007). “The Grand Chessboard”, p.34, Basic Books

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• My chief task has been to conquer fear. The public sees only the thrill of the accomplished trick; they have no conception of the tortuous preliminary self-training that was necessary to conquer fear.

  Harry Houdini

  Self, Training, Tasks

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• I was the editor of the News of the World; I was the editor of the Sun and chief executive.

  Rebekah Brooks

  Editors, News, World

  "The prosecution of Rebekah Brooks and her husband: the statements", www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2012.

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• I don't want to be a great chief executive without being a great mum and a great wife.

  Angela Ahrendts

  Wife, Want, Chief Executives

  "Why women over 50 should be listened to....in all walks of life" by Alison Phillips, www.mirror.co.uk. September 11, 2013.

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• I think it's good to know more than the average guy. If I'm in a bar now and some pretty girl is talking to some handsome 24-year-old man, I'll say, "Okay, who's the emperor after Caligula? What chief mistake did Marcus Aurelius make in choosing a successor?" He'll just look like an idiot. She'll just gravitate toward me, I'm thinking. It works in Detroit.

  Emo Philips

  Girl, Mistake, Men

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I always wanted to be a fireman, a cop, an Indian chief, a doctor, a lawyer. I always wanted to be all these things, so I am drawn to these kinds of characters.

  Morgan Freeman

  Character, Doctors, Lawyer

  "Morgan Freeman - part two". The Gardian Interview at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2000.

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• As president, I wouldn't be making the day-to-day combat decisions. The job of the commander-in-chief is to lay the objective out and then you rely upon the generals and admirals and commanders to give you their expert advice on the tools needed to carry out that objective.

  Ted Cruz

  Jobs, Rely Upon, Giving

  "Ted Cruz on opposition to trade bill, ObamaCare alternative". "Special Report" with Bret Baier, www.foxnews.com. June 24, 2015.

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• Although I still write, research and investigate, my role is primarily that of a publisher and editor-in-chief who organises and directs other journalists.

  Julian Assange

  Writing, Editors, Roles

  The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2010.

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• The world is threatened by terrorism and violent extremism like never before. The rule of law is one of our chief defences against terrorism. Our shared values of freedom and democracy are shielded when like-minded nations work together to promote justice.

  Peter MacKay

  Law, Justice, Democracy

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• We must have kings, we must have nobles; nature is always providing such in every society; only let us have the real instead of the titular. In every society some are born to rule, and some to advise. The chief is the chief all the world over, only not his cap and plume. It is only this dislike of the pretender which makes men sometimes unjust to the true and finished man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Real, Men

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• I'm the chief science officer of a foundation that works on the application of regenerative medicine to the problem of aging.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Medicine, Foundation, Aging

  "Speaker interview: Aubrey de Grey". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2010.

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• The legal subordination of one sex to another - is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement; and that it ought to be replaced by a system of perfect equality, admitting no power and privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other.

  John Stuart Mill

  Sex, Perfect, Sides

  John Stuart Mill (2017). “JOHN STUART MILL - Ultimate Collection: Works on Philosophy, Politics & Economy (Including Memoirs & Essays): Autobiography, Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women, On Liberty, Principles of Political Economy, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive and More”, p.71, Madison & Adams

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• A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.

  Oliver North

  Fighting, Winning, Two

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• A dictator's chief problem is keeping the stomachs of his subjects full while keeping their heads empty.

  Evan Esar

  Problem, Dictator, Empty

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• Las Vegas is a resort whose two chief sources of income are seven and eleven.

  Evan Esar

  Two, Vegas, Income

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• The false man is more false to himself than to any one else. He may despoil others, but himself is the chief loser. The world's scorn he might sometimes forget, but the knowledge of his own perfidy is undying.

  Horace Mann

  Men, Might, World

  Horace Mann (1850). “A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on Its 29th Anniversary”, p.70

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• Man said, "I am tired of kings! Sons of the robber-chiefs of yore, They make me pay for their lust and their war; I am the puppet, they pull the strings; The blood of my heart is the wine they drink. I will govern myself for awhile I think, And see what that brings!

  Henry Van Dyke

  Kings, War, Tired

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!

  Alexander Pope

  Ambition, Lost, Crosses

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• Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes, in this lower world.

  Isaac Watts

  World, Human Nature, Glory

  Isaac Watts (1824). “Logic, or the right use of reason in the inquiry after truth”, p.9

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• Genius, without work, is certainly a dumb oracle, and it is unquestionably true that the men of the highest genius have invariably been found to be amongst the most plodding, hard-working, and intent men -- their chief characteristic apparently consisting simply in their power of laboring more intensely and effectively than others.

  Samuel Smiles

  Hard Work, Men, Dumb

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.319

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• I once played the chief part in a rather exciting business without ever once budging from London . And the joke of it was that the man who went out to look for adventure only saw a bit of the game, and I who sat in my chambers saw it all and pulled the strings. 'They also serve who only stand and wait,' you know.

  John Buchan

  Adventure, Men, Games

  John Buchan (2016). “The Complete Works of John Buchan (Unabridged): Thriller Classics, Spy Novels, Supernatural Tales, Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Works, The Great War Writings, Essays, Biographies & Memoirs – All in One Volume”, p.1649, e-artnow

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• And Satan smiled, stretched out his hand, and said, "O War, of all the scourges of humanity, I crown you chief.

  James Weldon Johnson

  War, Hands, Humanity

  James Weldon Johnson (2009). “Fifty years and Other Poems (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.44, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Keynes was chief economic adviser to the British government and largely responsible for keeping the British economy afloat at a time when more than half of our gross national product, and all of our foreign exchange, was being spent on the war. I was lucky to be present at one of his rare appearances in Cambridge, when he gave a lecture with the title "Newton, the Man." Four years later he died of heart failure, precipitated by overwork and the hardships of crossing the Atlantic repeatedly in slow propeller-driven airplanes under wartime conditions.

  Freeman Dyson

  War, Heart, Airplane

  "The Scientist As Rebel". Book by Freeman Dyson, 2006.

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