A Quote by Lester B. Pearson

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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Politics Blunt Objects Skilled Use

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Lester B. Pearson
Canadian - Politician
April 23, 1897 - December 27, 1972

When you talk about objects, one other thing automatically comes attached to that thing, and that is gestures: how we manipulate these objects, how we use these objects in everyday life. We use gestures not only to interact with these objects, but we also use them to interact with each other.

Pranav Mistry

About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.

Edsger Dijkstra

I don't use Twitter to share my thoughts - I use it to make statements that are quite blunt and hopefully fun.

Andrew W.K.

I'm too blunt and straightforward for politics, but I'm friends with all.

Nana Patekar

I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.

Nate Silver

Senator Blunt genuinely sees everything through the lens of partisan politics.

Jason Kander

I realized I never played a character that was skilled at anything, or skilled at anything that I couldn't become skilled at.

Jonah Hill

High-skilled workers increasingly choose lucrative jobs that don't serve or supervise low-skilled workers. Low-skilled productivity and wage growth has lagged as a result.

Edward Conard

Unfortunately, we have to dial down low-skilled immigration. We have to recognize that there is more unemployment among the lesser-skilled workers than among the most-skilled workers.

Edward Conard

If you're analytical, you have to be blunt. That's by definition. You can't analyze something and not be blunt about it. What would you rather hear if not the truth?

Jim Boeheim

I see myself as the literary equivalent of a skilled lathe-operator, or a basket-weaver; a potter, maybe: I make mildly diverting objects that people want to buy.

Robert Harris

The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge.

Tony Blair

While classical mechanics correctly predicts the behavior of large objects such as tennis balls, to predict the behavior of small objects such as electrons, we must use quantum mechanics.

Ivar Giaever

I decided I should use the most obvious colours - the basic colours with simple names: red, purple, yellow, pink. I don't distort the objects, I don't change the objects, I draw them exactly as they are. I do the opposite with the colours.

Michael Craig-Martin

In the consumer economy taste is not the criterion in the marketing of expensive soft drinks, usability is not the primary criterion in the marketing of home and office appliances. We are surrounded with objects of desire, not objects of use.