(298 quotes found)
“Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.”
Edward Weston
“To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities. But this is an entirely modern conception, which hardly existed before the seventeenth century.”
Bertrand Russell
“I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think and novelists to see what I could get away with. And, in the end, I distilled everything down to one wonderfully simple principle: win or die.”
Christopher Hampton
“Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.”
Cyril Connolly
“Engineering consultants shoulder the responsibility to promote energy-efficient and eco-friendly technologies to meet thechallenge of energy over-consumption and environmental deterioration”
Zeng Peiyan
“The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights -- the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.”
Walter Bagehot
“Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse”
Benjamin Franklin
“[Over the past five years, executive coaching has mushroomed from a sideline on the motivational and consulting circuits to an expected perk in virtually every executive suite. Most coaches are now called in to smooth a CEO's rough, my-way-or-the-highway edges that may be driving top talent to rivals.] Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses, ... We don't live in that world anymore.”
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
“We had felt that a merger with another consulting firm might create a stronger entity, ... That turned out to be probably too big a bite for the other consulting firm.”
Michael Jordan
“A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee.”
Arnold H. Glasgow
