David Samuel, 3rd Viscount Samuel quotes

“Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.”
-- David Samuel, 3rd Viscount Samuel

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“In the end men love better that for which they have made sacrifices than that through which they have enjoyed pleasures.”
-- David Samuel, 3rd Viscount Samuel

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“Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.”

“There are two ways of getting out of a trial. One is simply to try to get rid of the trial, and be thankful when it is over. The other is to recognize the trial as a challenge from God to claim a larger blessing than we have ever had, and to hail it with delight as an opportunity of obtaining a larger measure of divine grace.”

“An interface can be a powerful narrative device. And as we collect more and more personally and socially relevant data, we have an opportunity, and maybe even an obligation, to maintain [our] humanity and tell some amazing stories.”

“It is always the young that make the change. You don't get these ideas when you're middle-aged. Young people have daring, creativity, imagination and personal computers. Above all, what you have as young people that's vitally needed to make social change, is impatience. You want it to happen now. There have to be enough people that say, ‘We want it now, in our lifetime.’ This is your moment. This is your opportunity. Be adventurists in the sense of being bold and daring. Be opportunists and seize this opportunity, this moment in history, to go out and save our country. It's your turn now.”

“Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.”

“marriage, home life, and children, ought to be enjoyed by men and women together. Nobody - and least of all the child - is served by the present tendency to put these things all on one side as 'Woman's World.”

Source : Alva Myrdal, Viola Klein (2003). “Women's Two Roles: Home and Work”, p.28, Psychology Press

“You can shoot and edit a movie from your iPhone and upload it to YouTube. Of course, what's not universal is talent. Are you making anything that anyone really should see?”

“Talent is not sexually transmitted.”

Source : "10 Wrestling Couples That Prove Talent Can't Be Sexually Transmitted", whatculture.com. June 20, 2015.

“Talent always rises to the top”