#stated

No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#brilliantly #half #how #idea #matter

What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#constant #could #enjoyed #fixed #guidance

My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit. ↗

— Ted Olson

#bit #center #course #crashed #devastated

The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#any #briefly #inverse #involved #item

A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions. ↗

— James Payn

#case #evil #folks #great #hope

I'd fallen in love with a woman but she broke up with me and I was devastated. Six months later, I went into a suicidal depression from the break-up of the relationship, but I resolved to not do what my friends had done. And so I reached out for help. ↗

— Aron Ralston

#broke #depression #devastated #done #fallen

Field of Dreams is the only movie - and I saw it in the theater - on an afternoon when I was on location somewhere, and there were like 12 people in the theater. I was just so devastated; I couldn't get out of my seat. And I sat and watched it a second time. ↗

— Paul Reiser

#devastated #dreams #field #get #i

I was totally devastated for four years in the mid '60s when l tried to buck the tide. ↗

— Tommy Rettig

#devastated #four #i #mid #tide

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#easier #more #overstated #people #promised

A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved. ↗

— Dorthea Brande

#half #problem #solved #stated