Ian P. Griffin quotes

“Audiences forget facts, but they remember stories. Once you get past the jargon, the corporate world is an endless source of fascinating stories.”
-- Ian P. Griffin

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“What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.”

“When I was young I thought of friendship as a matter of total loyalty and unchanging preference and I was often disappointed. But as an adult I had come to see that it was more the refraction of some total faithfulness and joy of which we all had some primordial notion. The exchange of trust and the experience of understanding between two people was like a sign or witness to the possibilitity of eternal caring and understanding and communication.”

“Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.”

“But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.”

“In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.”

“The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.”

“The very fact that the jaguar can become extinct while the Pekingese survives indicates to me that someone hasn't thought this thing through.”

“While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.”

Source : "The Meaning of Life and Other Essays" by A.J. Ayer, ("The Meaning of Life"), 1990.

“It’s a known fact that in certain contexts people’s great strengths become their epic failings.”

“I'm always honored, but I think for every 100 of those that come along, one of them is actually going to happen. And, the fact that this was an offer on a major film that had a start date, was pretty impressive.”

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