Quotes of Facility - somelinesforyou

“ Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. ”

- George S. Patton

“ Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Here, here, and everywhere, he leaves and takes, Dexterity so obeying appetite That what he will he does, and does so much That proof is called impossibility. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The readiness of doing doth expresse No other but the doer's willingnesse. ”

- Robert Herrick

“ How often the priest had heard the same confession — Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity to invent a new vice. ”

- Graham Greene

“ Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation. ”

- Walt Disney

“ Efficiency is doing better what is already being done. ”

- Peter Drucker

“ Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools. ”

- Gene Brown

“ Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it. ”

- George Dennison Prentice

“ Stupidity has a knack of getting its way. ”

- Albert Camus

“ Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few. ”

- David Hume

“ Never tell a man how to do something. Tell him what to do and let him surprise you with his ingenuity. ”

- George Patton

“ He did nothing in particular, And did it very well. ”

- W. S. Gilbert

“ Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing. ”

- Zig Ziglar

“ Museums are the cemeteries of the arts. ”

- Alphonse de Lamartine

“ The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible. ”

- Hannah Moore

“ Foolproof systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools. ”

- Gene Brown

“ An art book is a museum without walls. ”

- Andre Malraux

“ The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are — 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and, 3. Hope to all. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. ”

- Lord Peter Wimsey

“ A Parliament is that to the Commonwealth which the soul is to the body. It behooves us therefore to keep the facility of that soul from distemper. ”

- John Pym

“ Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. ”

- Thomas Beecham

“ It cannot be too often repeated that it is not help, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men. ”

- William Mathews

“ Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel. ”

- George Santayana

“ Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way. ”

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

“ We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility. ”

- Mark Twain

“ They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit. ”

- Chinua Achebe

“ I guess I'm a good story teller. What makes me a prolific writer is two factors at work. Celibacy; I don't have a family to distract me. And I'm glib. I reached facility with words. ”

- Andrew Greeley

“ Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities. ”

- Lewis Mumford

“ Our school facilities must be repaired, and our teachers need to be trained and treated as artisans of a noble profession. ”

- Janet Napolitano
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