#general

Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness. ↗

— Brent Weeks

#general-danavis #lightbringer-trilogy #beauty

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#generalization #generalize #idea #means #property

Mrs General had no opinions. Her way of forming a mind was to prevent it from forming opinions. She had a little circular set of mental grooves or rails on which she started little trains of other people's opinions, which never overtook one another, and never got anywhere. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#mrs-general #opinions #education

I have a bunch of concepts and ideas that I want to do but I have also been growing my production company in general and looking to branch out of projects that I am directing and producing. ↗

— Adrian Grenier

#am #been #branch #bunch #company

Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one another, must follow certain design principles if they are to succeed and prevail. ↗

— Robert Shea

#behave #certain #competition #design #especially

As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that. ↗

— Norman Schwarzkopf

#as far as #being #far #general #great

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#against #among #been #before #care

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

#bad #general #impression #moral #picture

Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#generals #i #knights #like #middle

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#character #general #greatest #most #nation