(1619 quotes found)
“The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.”
Walter Raleigh Sr.
“A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.”
Charles de Lint
“When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: LEAVE SLIDE RULES HERE! If I didn't do that, I'd find some engineer reaching for his slide rule. Then he'd be on his feet saying, ''Boss you can't do that.''”
Charles F. Kettering
“All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.”
Alexandre Dumas Père
“The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.”
Diane Arbus
“Well, you know, like, I don't really give a fuck what the general public think.”
Sid Vicious
“For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.”
William Osler
“Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.”
Sun Tzu
“To generalize is to be an idiot.”
William Blake
“I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly and obviously conceive are true: only observing, however, that there is some difficulty in rightly determining the objects which we distinctly conceive.”
Rene Descartes
