#pro

The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#even #feeling #johnny #know #problem

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#gullible #hands #hearts #help #may

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#holding #least #meetings #most #ones

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#balanced #balanced budget #budget #budgets #genuinely

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#bracket #called #decade #imagine #into

Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#around #far #fewer #higher #industry

And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#believe #best #craft #i #i believe

I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#consider #down #i #important #just

I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value. ↗

— Sissy Spacek

#appeals #before #dozen #dwarfed #else

Over the years, I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#audiences #been #build #characters #could