#substitute

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#industry #substitute #talent #virtues

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#corrupt #democracy #election #few #form

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#corrupt #democracy #election #few #incompetent

To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance. ↗

— Nate Silver

#answer #extent #find #know #making

My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears. ↗

— Paul Simon

#common #disappears #even #life #music

That’s the thing about living vicariously; it’s so much faster than actual living. In a few minutes we’ll be worrying about names for the children. ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#humor

There is no substitute for hard work. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#hard #hard work #substitute

I'll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there's no substitute for experience. I don't care how much natural talent you may have... In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises. ↗

— Bob Barker

#depend #experience #how #i #i do

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#ever #founded #his #knows #only

To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science. ↗

— Hannes Alfven

#grand #ignorance #increasingly #knowledge #larger