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Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.
— Tom Lehrer
Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics/ And the Catholics hate the Protestants/ And the Hindus hate the Muslims/ And everybody hates the Jews.
— Tom Lehrer
If I can't get people to commit themselves on whether or not there is a square root of two, then I won't touch on God or anything here
— Tom Lehrer
In fact, most of us see perseverance as a distinctly uncreative approach, the sort of strategy that people with mediocre ideas are forced to rely on.
— Jonah Lehrer
When correctly viewed, everything is lewd.
— Tom Lehrer
While human nature largely determines how we hear the notes, it is nurture that lets us hear the music.
— Jonah Lehrer
If you asked me to write a rock song or a rap song, I couldn't do it because they're not in my fingers.
— Tom Lehrer
Love is just another name for what never gets old.
— Jonah Lehrer
My writing is extremely important, so I write every day. I just enjoy it. I get a kick out of it.
— Jim Lehrer
It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.
— Tom Lehrer
I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.
— Jim Lehrer
We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.
— Jim Lehrer
I think the people who say we need satire often mean, 'We need satire of them, not of us.
— Tom Lehrer
We see them most when we are o nnthe outside looking in
— Jonah Lehrer
We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares.
— Tom Lehrer
You want to know about creativity? Just go out and buy that book Imagine by Jonah Lehrer. It's only $29.00 in hardcover.
— Bob Dylan
The world is more random than we can imagine. That's what our emotions can't understand.
— Jonah Lehrer
And although I'm all for freedom of expression and against censorship, there are certain things I'm not willing to go to jail for.
— Tom Lehrer
You know more than you know.
— Jonah Lehrer
Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.
— Jonah Lehrer
Grit is the stubborn refusal to quit.
— Jonah Lehrer
If the hoods don't get you, the monoxide will.
— Tom Lehrer
Every creative story is different. And every creative story is the same. There was nothing. Now there is something. It's almost like magic.
— Jonah Lehrer
In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl.'
— Tom Lehrer
...Prions violate most of biology's sacred rules. They are one of those annoying reminders of how much we don't know.
— Jonah Lehrer
The poor folks hate the rich folks, and the rich folks hate the poor folks. All of my folks hate all of your folks, it's American as apple pie.
— Tom Lehrer
I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice - a civic responsibility.
— Jim Lehrer
I don't have the temperament of a performer, and I certainly couldn't do it every night.
— Tom Lehrer
There is no exit from the circle of one's beliefs.
— Keith Lehrer
Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
— Tom Lehrer
I'm very proud of myself on my, whatever the literacy is, I'm pretentious, totally pretentious. I like to say 'hmm', for example.
— Tom Lehrer
Money chases good ideas
— Jonah Lehrer
Mr. Lehrer's muse is not fettered by such inhibiting factors as taste.
— The New York Times
For there is surely nothing more beautiful in this world than the sight of a lone man facing single-handedly a half a ton of angry pot roast!
— Tom Lehrer
The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less talent was wasted.
— Jonah Lehrer
My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.
— Jim Lehrer
To have a style is to be stuck.
— Jonah Lehrer
A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do.
— Jim Lehrer
Design is the conscious imposition of meaningful order.
— Jonah Lehrer
Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh.
— Tom Lehrer
I'll be selling tickets for my next tour exclusively through Jonah Lehrer. Make sure to pay cash.
— Bob Dylan
I'm not in the being-annoyed business.
— Jim Lehrer
Be prepared, and be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.
— Tom Lehrer
Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true.
— Jonah Lehrer
My conscience is clear.
— Jim Lehrer
I started as a print reporter.
— Jim Lehrer
A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly between two candidates, and that's it.
— Jim Lehrer
I have always found it interesting ... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery.
— Tom Lehrer
Rejection process is not fun. It's the red pen on the page, the discarded sketch, sometimes is the only way forward.
— Jonah Lehrer
Bad weather always looks worse through a window.
— Tom Lehrer
Let me be clear: Despite Roger Clemens' statements to the contrary, I never injected Roger Clemens, or anyone else, with lidocaine or B-12.
— Jim Lehrer
Not everyone can be relaxed or comfortable enough to seriously listen to the (debate or interview) answers.
— Jim Lehrer
So long, Mom I'm off to drop the bomb So don't wait up for me But while you swelter Down there in your shelter You can see me On your TV
— Tom Lehrer
The death rate among Marines in Iraq has been more than double that of the other services.
— Jim Lehrer
I'm a journalist and that's what I do.
— Jim Lehrer
Don't solicit for your sister, it's not nice. Unless you get a good percentage of her price.
— Tom Lehrer
People are stupider than anybody.
— Tom Lehrer
Be it ever so decadent, there's no place like home.
— Tom Lehrer
Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill.
— Jonah Lehrer
I'm not in the judgment part of journalism.
— Jim Lehrer
As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.
— Jim Lehrer
In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: plagiarize; only be sure always to call it ... research.
— Tom Lehrer
But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.
— Tom Lehrer
I wasn't really a performer by temperament.
— Tom Lehrer