John N. Mitchell quotes

John N. Mitchell quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.”
-- John N. Mitchell

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“Not much more can happen to you after you lose your reputation and your wife.”
-- John N. Mitchell

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“In my mind, the re-election of Richard Nixon, compared with what was available on the other side, was so much more important that I put it in just that context.”
-- John N. Mitchell

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“The conservation movement is a breeding ground of Communists and other subversives. We intend to clean them out, even if it means rounding up every bird watcher in the country.”
-- John N. Mitchell

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“If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.”
“The pleasure and the love of God for His creatures constitute the original state. His pleasure and love are the means by which He has brought His creatures into existence and are the cause of that bringing into existence. He who knows that he possesses neither being nor act rediscovers himself in that original state of pleasure and divine love.”
“Only those who love with the heart can animate the love of others.”

Source : Abel Stevens (1881). “Madame de Staël: A Study of Her Life and Times: the First Revolution and the First Empire”
“Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.”
“My experience of test screenings is that you don't know what kind of mood people are going to be in, and sometimes the studios accept what Joe Blo says - and this guy could just be a frustrated filmmaker, or not paying attention.”
“I don't really get too frustrated. I know I'm going to get the ball.”
“If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew.”
“If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.”
“The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives.”

Source : Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. June 23, 2010.
“Curiosity is one of the strongest human incentives”

Source : Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Claude C. Hopkins, John E. Kennedy, Albert D. Lasker “Scientific Advertising Origins”, Lulu.com

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