quotes about Police Work

“Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers.”

“While the impressionists make a table to give one particular moment and subordinate the life of the table to its resemblance to this moment, we synthesize every moment (time, place, form, color-tone) and thus build the table.”

“It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while young.”

“Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them. If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.”

“I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.”

Source : In George Plimpton Writers at Work (1967) 3rd series, p. 190

“How old am I? I'm as old as my mother told me. How's that?”

“There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I'm going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life-whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts.”

“Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.”

“Truth is so good a thing that falsehood can not afford to be without it.”

“The unexpressed is always of greater value than the expressed.”