Good Sense Quotes - Page 10

• Women have a very good sense for seeing instantly what constitutes a good man. Not physically. The physical strength is only a small side of it.

  Werner Herzog

  Men, Good Man, Sides

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. June 11, 2003.

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• I like girls with a good sense of humour. Girls who are a lot of fun to be around.

  Corbin Bleu

  Girl, Fun, Humour

  "Zac Efron and Corbin Bleu Dish on High School Musical 3: Senior Year". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. February 16, 2009.

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• Milton Friedman had the grace and good sense to recognize that he wanted to talk to the general public. He wasn't going to just lecture to the people who happened to appear in his classroom in Chicago or on some lecture circuit. He went out to talk to the general public, believing that you had to convince a democratic nation to change its ways, and he succeeded to a considerable extent.

  Allan H. Meltzer

  Believe, People, Grace

  "Economist Milton Friedman Dies". Interview with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. November 16, 2006.

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• A proverb has three characteristics: few words, good sense, and a fine image.

  Moses ibn Ezra

  Three, Few Words, Fine

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• It was nice that you guys have such a good sense of humor, because some people don't have the ability to laugh at something.

  Owen Wilson

  Nice, People, Laughing

  Interview with Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 15, 2016.

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• I think somebody like Wes [Anderson] has a very good sense of style and is original. I think my sense of style got a little bit better after I was exposed to you guys at Valentino. Because I'm just in Hawaii and Malibu; it's just kind of T-shirts and surfing-type stuff.

  Owen Wilson

  Thinking, Guy, Surfing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I lose all track of time on that level. I used to have a really good sense of time. I didn't need a clock to play, and I had a sense of when five, ten, twenty minutes had passed. Now I can only play with a clock.

  Z'EV

  Play, Track, Twenties

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• True merit does not depend on the times or on fashion. Those who have no other advantage than courtly manners lose it when they are away from court. But good sense, knowledge, and wisdom make their possessors knowledgeable and beloved in all ages and in all times.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Wisdom, Fashion, Age

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• The move from scarcity thinking to abundance thinking, from zero-sum competition to one-hundred-sum collaboration, is not just a “nice” or “moral” idea. In the twenty-first century, it's plain good sense. Scarcity says, “I'm going to keep all my ideas to myself and sell more than anyone else.” Abundance says, “By mentoring, coaching, and sharing all our best ideas, we're going to create a powerful tide that raises all our ships-and we'll all sell more as a result".

  Daniel Burrus

  Zero, Powerful, Nice

  "Want to Save the Manufacturing Sector? It's Time to Embrace the Principles of Next Generation Manufacturing" by Daniel Burrus, bigthink.com.

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• As a leader, these attributes - confidence, perseverance, work ethic and good sense - are all things I look for in people. I also try to lead by example and create an environment where good questions and good ideas can come from anyone.

  Heather Bresch

  Perseverance, Ideas, People

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• You thank God [for your salvation] because "you do not attribute your repenting and believing to your own wisdom, or prudence, or sound judgment, or good sense.

  J. I. Packer

  Believe, Thank God, Sound

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• A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.

  Francois Rabelais

  Faith, Believe, Men

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• There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Rights, May, Chance

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• People just relate to me. They know I'm a regular person brought up in a hardworking, poor family, that I've had all the struggles that people have. I'm just a friendly person. And I hopefully have a good sense of humor. People get a kick out of my stupidity.

  Dolly Parton

  Struggle, People, Stupidity

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life; Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend; Love and Constancy, a good Wife or Husband. Where we meet one Person with all these Accomplishments, we find an Hundred without any one of them.

  Joseph Addison

  Marriage, Husband, Giving

  Joseph Addison (1867). “The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Ay Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.22

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• Good sense and good nature are never separated; and good nature is the product of right reason.

  John Dryden

  Reason, Good Nature, Products

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• Some people that work for Hot Pockets came to my Denver Paramount Theater show. They brought these hot pocket boxes the size of suit cases for me to sign. I wrote "these are WMD's" on the boxes. The HP people seem to have a good sense of humor about all of it.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Wmd, People, Pockets

  Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. May 21, 2007.

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• I attended the public schools.And I have happy memories and strong memories of those days and good memories of the good sense and the decency of my friends and my neighbors.

  Samuel Alito

  Strong, Memories, School

  Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006

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• It was a time of turmoil at colleges and universities. And I saw some very smart people and very privileged people behaving irresponsibly. And I couldn't help making a contrast between some of the worst of what I saw on the campus and the good sense and the decency of the people back in my own community.

  Samuel Alito

  Smart, College, People

  Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006

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• You know, some of the action stuff, I tend to have a pretty good sense of humor about it. Even when I direct and have a lot of pressure, it teaches me to laugh at stuff. I think that comes also from sports, from combat sports, where you've got to learn to laugh at it and take it in stride. Otherwise, you just can't deal with it.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Sports, Thinking, Laughing

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

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• I think it is owing to the good sense of the English that they have not painted better.

  William Hogarth

  Art, Thinking, Owing

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• [The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.

  William E. Gladstone

  Constitution, Parliament, British

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• Conceptual relativism is a heady and exotic doctrine, or would be if we could make good sense of it. The trouble is, as so often in philosophy, it is hard to improve intelligibility while retaining the excitement.

  Donald Davidson

  Philosophy, Doctrine, Would Be

  Donald Davidson (2001). “Inquiries Into Truth and Interpretation: Philosophical Essays”, p.183, Oxford University Press

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• I think I have a good sense of humor, but I'm not, like, a joke-teller. I get the jokes, which is sometimes half the battle. Believe me, I have no idea why anyone hires me.

  Mila Kunis

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

  "And She's Funny, Too: A GQ&A with Mila Kunis". Interview with David Marchese, www.gq.com. July 12, 2011.

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• Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake.

  Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

  Mistake, Book, Men

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