“Promises were like bad checks, easy to write and hard to cash.”
Robert Charles Wilson book Blind Lake
Source: Blind Lake (2003), Chapter 15 (p. 179)
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
“Promises were like bad checks, easy to write and hard to cash.”
Robert Charles Wilson book Blind Lake
Source: Blind Lake (2003), Chapter 15 (p. 179)
Edward S. Herman (1925–2017) American journalist
Source: Beyond Hypocrisy, 1992, Doublespeak Dictionary (within Beyond Hypocrisy), p. 166.
Francis Wayland Parker (1837–1902) Union Army officer
Source: Talks on Pedagogics, (1894), p. 25; as quoted in Sanderson Beck. Francis W. Parker's Concentration Pedagogy: Education to Free the Human Spirit http://www.san.beck.org/Parker.html, 1996
“It's easy to direct while acting — there’s one less person to argue with.”
Roman Polanski (1933) Polish-French film director, producer, writer, actor, and rapist
New York Times (22 February 1976)
Andrew Pettigrew (1944) University professor
although others saw in it the rule of accountants
Chris Hendry and Andrew Pettigrew. "Human resource management: an agenda for the 1990s." International journal of human resource management 1.1 (1990): 17-43.
Edward Witten (1951) American theoretical physicist
"Edward Witten" interview, Superstrings: A Theory of Everything? (1992) ed. P.C.W. Davies, Julian Brown
Context: Quantum mechanics... developed through some rather messy, complicated processes stimulated by experiment. While it's a very rich and wonderful theory, it doesn't quite have the conceptual foundation of general relativity. Our problem in physics is that everything is based on these two different theories and when we put them together we get nonsense.
Rudiger Dornbusch (1942–2002) German economist
Rudiger Dornbusch, "Expectations and exchange rate dynamics." The journal of political economy (1976): 1161-1176. p. 1161
William F. Sharpe (1934) American economist
William Sharpe’s February 1992 lecture at Trinity University: in: William Breit, Barry T. Hirsch (2009). Lives of the Laureates: Twenty-three Nobel Economists. p. 172