#explains

No one can say 'He jests at scars who never felt a wound' for I have never for one moment been in a state of mind to which even the imagination of serious pain was less than intolerable. If any man is safe from the danger of under-estimating this adversary, I am that man. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#preface #imagination

I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#better #even #explains #favorite #feel

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#demonstrates #explains #good #good teacher #inspires

In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#carefree #explains #free state #happy #houses

I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I've dated nothing but a succession of blondes. ↗

— Hugh Hefner

#blondes #comedies #dated #end #explains

Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#explains #fictional #itself #unlike

Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#because #brand #brands #cannot #customer

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century. ↗

— Greg Egan

#caffeine #century #explains #lot #twentieth

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#changed #edge #experience #explains #how

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders. ↗

— Sloan Wilson

#almost #any #depends #does #drive