A Quote by Robert McNamara

Brains are like hearts - they go where they are appreciated.

Robert McNamara

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Appreciated Brains Go Hearts Like

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Robert McNamara
American - Public Servant
June 9, 1916 - July 6, 2009

In life and art we need to make sure that we honour that which our hearts and brains tell us is good. And we should cast a philosophic yet curious smile at that which our hearts and brains tell us otherwise.

Robert Genn

We have to create strength where it did not exist before; we have to change our natures, and become new men with new hearts, to be born again. We need a nucleus of men in whom the Shakti is developed to its uttermost extent, in whom it fills every corner of the personality and overflows to fertilise the earth. These, having the fire of Bhawani in their hearts and brains, will go forth and carry the flame to every nook and cranny of our land.

Sri Aurobindo

From study of known normal brains we have learned that there is a certain range of variation. No two brains are exactly alike, and the greatest source of error in the assertions of Benedict and Lombroso has been the finding of this or that variation in a criminal's brains, and maintaining such to be characteristic of the 'criminal constitution,' unmindful of the fact that like variations of structure may and do exist in the brains of normal, moral persons.

Edward Anthony Spitzka

Brains without competitive hearts are rudderless.

Vince Lombardi

But what are you going to do about the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?

Dorothy L. Sayers

It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts.

Dalai Lama

Have we not the brains to think? Hands to work? Hearts to feel? And lives to live?

Nellie L. McClung

Just like everybody else, celebrities have brains and those brains get conditions - addiction, depression.

Drew Pinsky

We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings?

Brian Greene

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

Leo Rosten

Brains, like cabbages, are beautiful-but in a different way. Cabbage heads are dumb and sterile, whereas brains are personal, intelligent and vibrant.

Carl Pfeiffer

I feel like network didn't want me. I was doing all these pilots, and it never worked out. I was like, network doesn't like me. I'm going to go to cable where I'm appreciated. Then it was funny; I think I had to go to cable for network to appreciate me.

Abigail Spencer

The captains of industry are not hunting money. America is heavy with it. They are seeking brains - specialized brains - and faithful, loyal service. Brains are needed to carry out the plans of those who furnish the capital.

Charles M. Schwab

What shall we do, all of us? All of us oassionate girls who fear crushing the boys we love with our mouths like caverns of teeth, our mushrooming brains, our watermelon hearts?