Keen Quotes - page 2

O, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd! She was a vixen when she went to school; And though she be but little, she is fierce. (William Shakespeare)
Our minds are all different and I believe cultivating a keen introspective sensitivity is absolutely essential in discovering our potential. View quote
Joshua Waitzkin
The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, "Professor Cohen, how do I know that I exist?” The keen old prof replied, "And who is asking?”. View quote
Saul Bellow
Natural phenomena undisturbed by man point the way to the realization of a new technique. One needs a keen sense of observation. We must understand Nature before we can adapt its way of working to our needs. View quote
Viktor Schauberger
Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on. View quote
Larry Wall
Be your strong and simple words Keen to wound as sharpened swords, And wide as targes let them be, With their shade to cover ye. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
No one is so keen to gather ever newer impressions as those who do not know how to process the old ones. View quote
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
People are too keen to follow standard preconceptions of how organisations should work. All too often, we feel that we are unable to make changes and so hope that someone, somewhere in your organisation knows what we are doing and what the overall aim is. View quote
Ricardo Semler
Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose. View quote
Edmund Phelps
I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen. View quote
Carson McCullers
If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot! (Robert Baden-Powell)
I think over there in Montreal they're a bit hardcore with the old homos. They're not that keen on them. View quote
Allen Carr
We need to keep a very keen eye on our own government. It's getting too rich and redistributing wealth is a sure way of robbing us of our private property rights and other rights along with them. View quote
Richard Pipes
I guess I've played a lot of failures, which is a Huston quality, I guess. I love losers, though, and have never met anyone who hasn't been one sometime. I'm always looking to understand them, and my father had an extremely keen eye to be able to dissect and bring that forward in the way he told his stories. View quote
Danny Huston
Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen. View quote
Ella Maillart
I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks. View quote
Fay Godwin
We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star. View quote
Gary Kemp
I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket. View quote
John E. Walker
It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them. View quote
Karrie Webb
I was so keen to get back to sea. I was rattled. View quote
Lord Mountbatten
It really lasted the whole game, because I was really untouchable, unstoppable that game. But it was heightened on one particular play, and that was the longest run where everything completely slowed down. My awareness was so keen, it was so heightened, it was really amazing. (Marcus Allen)
Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You're three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down. View quote
Mary Karr
Study the public behavior of top stars and you can detect a keen attentiveness to brand value. View quote
Peter Bart
My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance. View quote
Rob James-Collier
I was very keen on people like Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent. View quote
Robin Trower