Charles Issawi quotes

“A shortcut is the longest distance between two points.”
-- Charles Issawi

Source : Charles Philip Issawi (1999). “Growing Up Different: Memoirs of a Middle East Scholar”, Darwin Press, Incorporated

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“Most people do not go to the dentist until they have a toothache; most societies do not reform abuses until the victims begin to make life uncomfortable for others.”
-- Charles Issawi

Source : Charles Philip Issawi (1991). “Issawi's laws of social motion”, Darwin Pr

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“Most things get steadily worse.”
-- Charles Issawi

Source : Charles Philip Issawi (1991). “Issawi's laws of social motion”, Darwin Pr

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“The greatest distance in the world is the 14 inches from our minds to our hearts.”

“Finally he closed the distance between us and kissed me - a sweet, gentle kiss that held within it every single one of the thousand days I'd loved him as my everything, long after I'd begun to love him as a friend.”

“[talking about the Holocaust] 'But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained. And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.' 'But this is History. Distance yourselves. Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground. We don't see it, and because we don't see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past. And one of the historian's jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be... even on the Holocaust.”

“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”

Source : Alan Mathison Turing, B. J. Copeland (2004). “The Essential Turing”, p.463, Oxford University Press

“Let's begin by taking a smallish nap or two.”

“I want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they'd taken for granted. Or that confuses them to the point that they laugh, but contains one or two phrases/lines that stick in their minds.”

“Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.”

“Getting a mentor is the shortcut to success.”

“There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.”

“You have to keep plugging away. We are all growing. There is no shortcut. You have to put time into it to build an audience.”