A Quote by William McFee

One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.

William McFee

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William McFee
American - Writer
June 15, 1881 - July 2, 1966

If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.

Oscar Wilde

Asked to choose between money and fame, I'd choose the latter every time.

Hansika Motwani

I have gone from local obscurity to national obscurity to international obscurity. Once I learn how to monetize obscurity, I will be rich.

Ernie J Zelinski

While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace.

Virginia Woolf

Obscurity, indeed, is painful to the mind as well as to the eye; but to bring light from obscurity, by whatever labour, must needsbe delightful and rejoicing.

David Hume

I don't choose between my house phone and my mobile. I don't choose between my laptop and my notebook. And I don't intend to choose between my e-reader and my bookshelf.

Sara Sheridan

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

Narendra Modi

Books are influential in proportion to their obscurity, provided that the obscurity be that of inexpressible Realities. The Bible is the most obscure book in the world. He must be a great fool who thinks he understands the plainest chapter of it.

Coventry Patmore

Basically, for any complex to be sustainable needs to have a balance between two factors: resilience and efficiency. These two factors can be calculated from the structure of the network that is involved in a complex system. A resilient, efficient system needs to be diverse and interconnected. On the other hand, diversity and interconnectivity decrease efficiency. Therefore, the key is an appropriate balance between efficiency and resilience.

Bernard Lietaer

If one must choose between rigour and meaning, I shall unhesitatingly choose the latter.

Rene Thom

I must choose between despair and Energy??I choose the latter.

John Keats

If you must choose between loving someone and acting so that they feel loved, always choose to love them.

John Piper

Fame is fickle, but Obscurity is usually faithful to the end.

Mason Cooley

A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff.

Henry A. Kissinger

Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.

Jean-Paul Sartre

We are told we must choose - the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new?

Susan Sontag

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