Showing Quotes

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people. (John D. Rockefeller)
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. View quote
Woody Allen
Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it. View quote
William Shenstone
Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you restrict your populations, your testing materials and the kinds of situations you look at, you can keep finding the same wrong thing again and again. View quote
Robert Sternberg
There are three classes of intellects one which comprehends by itself another which appreciates what others comprehend and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others the first is the most excellent, the second is good, the third is useless. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
Showing off is the fool's idea of glory. View quote
Bruce Lee
One cannot review a bad book without showing off. View quote
W. H. Auden
On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole. View quote
Arnold J. Toynbee
You see what power is – holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them. (Amy Tan)
The nude gains its enduring value from the fact that it reconciles several contrary states. It takes the most sensual and immediately interesting object, the human body, and puts it out of reach of time and desire; it takes the most purely rational concept of which mankind is capable, mathematical order, and makes it a delight to the senses; and it takes the vague fears of the unknown and sweetens them by showing that the gods are like men and may be worshiped for their life-giving beauty rather than their death-dealing powers. View quote
Kenneth Clark
The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Salvador Dali seduced many ladies, particularly American ladies, but these seductions usually consisted of stripping them naked in his apartment, frying a couple of eggs, putting them on the woman's shoulders and, without a word, showing them the door. View quote
Luis Buñuel
It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something that they are showing the way when they are running away that they see the light when they feel the heat that they are chosen when they are shunned. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Showing up is not all of life, but it counts for a lot. View quote
Hillary Clinton
The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word. View quote
Bob Edwards
After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases. View quote
Mickey Mantle
The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing. View quote
Edward R. Tufte
We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important. View quote
Bruce Babbitt
It's a bit loose and the people in my group have got other groups. They don't have to have a total allegiance to me. I think that's really a bit weird and showing some weird insecurity. (Graham Coxon)
I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year. View quote
Ishmael Reed
Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one. View quote
Maria Weston Chapman
The people I used to have around me from Nashville was showing love to the Cash Money clique on the strength of Buck trying to make it; making sure Buck gets to where he gots to go. View quote
Young Buck
I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down. View quote
Young Buck