#merely

Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense. ↗

— George Gallup

#attention #effect #instrument #interpretation #leader

Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business. ↗

— Michael Gerber

#business #entrepreneurial #entrepreneurs #fail #merely

I don't even like to talk about it. I hated being a number and not merely because I was a very small one. I let them bellow at me for just as long as it took me to find enough pluck to bellow back at them. ↗

— George Grosz

#back #because #being #bellow #enough

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he "lives" his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy. ↗

— G. I. Gurdjieff

#does #doing #fantasy #feel #his

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy. ↗

— George Gurdjieff

#does #doing #fantasy #feel #his

I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind. ↗

— Edward Jenner

#beneficial #endeavour #essentially #further #hope

I don't want to leave people thinking they've merely seen another actor using his same bag of tricks and fake charm. ↗

— David Keith

#another #bag #charm #fake #his

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#backgrounds #bludgeon #conformity #consequences #followers

There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink. ↗

— Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

#colour #ink #magical #merely #pen

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#large number #means #merely #nowadays #number