The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, ...some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self- promotion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself, numerous and dignified enough to rank with other estates in the realm; and where fame an...d secular promotion are to be had for study, and in a direction which has the unanimous respect of all cultivated nations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Unless a group of workers know their work is under surveillance, that they are being rated as fairly as human beings, with the fal...libility that goes with human judgment, can rate them, and that at least an attempt is made to measure their worth to an organization in relative terms, they are likely to sink back on length of service as the sole reason for retention and promotion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We that are bound by vows and by promotion, With pomp of holy sacrifice and rites,... To teach belief in good and still devotion, To preach of heaven's wonders and delights-- Yet, when each of us in his own heart looks, He finds the God there far unlike his books.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
General [George] Crook gave me a very agreeable present this afternoon--a pair of his old brigadier-general straps. The stars are ...somewhat dimmed by hard service, but will correspond pretty well with my rusty old blouse. Of course I am very much gratified by the promotion. I know perfectly well that the rank has been conferred on all sorts of small people and so cheapened shamefully, but I can't help feeling that getting it at the close of a most bloody campaign on the recommendation of fighting generals like Crook and [Philip] Sheridan is a different thing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am asked if I would not be gratified if my friends would procure me promotion to a brigadier-generalship. My feeling is that I w...ould rather be one of the good colonels than one of the poor generals. The colonel of a regiment has one of the most agreeable positions in the service, and one of the most useful. "A good colonel makes a good regiment," is an axiom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Missionaries, whether of philosophy or religion, rarely make rapid way, unless their preachings fall in with the prepossessions of... the multitude of shallow thinkers, or can be made to serve as a stalking-horse for the promotion of the practical aims of the still larger multitude, who do not profess to think much, but are quite certain they want a great deal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The wedding was a quiet affair, and when called upon to enjoy my promotion from lodger to lover did I experience only bitterness a...nd distaste? No.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Parents can fail to cheer your successes as wildly as you expected, pointing out that you are sharing your Nobel Prize with a coup...le of other people, or that your Oscar was for supporting actress, not really for a starring role. More subtly, they can cheer your successes too wildly, forcing you into the awkward realization that your achievement of merely graduating or getting the promotion did not warrant the fireworks and brass band.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect... manner to the promotion of virtue.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »