14 ordspråk av S. I. Hayakawa
S. I. Hayakawa
 Advertising is a symbol-manipulating occupation. |
| By the definition accepted in the United States, any person with even a small amount of Negro Blood... is a Negro. Logically, it would be exactly as justifiable to say that any person with even a small amount of white blood is white. Why do they say one rather than the other? Because the former classification suits the convenience of those making the classification. Society, in short, regards as true those systems that produce the desired results. Science seeks only the most generally useful systems of classification; these it regards for the time being, until more useful classifications are invented, as true. |
| Ever since man began to till the soil and learned not to eat the seed grain but to plant it and wait for the harvest, the postponement of gratification has been the basis of a higher standard of living and civilization. |
| How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either. |
| I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to loose. |
| If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it. |
| In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. |
| In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance. |
| It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish. |
| It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die. |
| Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, 'I have failed three times' and what happens when he says, I'm a failure. |
| So I will say it with relish. Give me a hamburger but hold the lawsuit. |
| So I will say it with relish. Give me a hamburger but hold the lawsuit. |
| You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words. Conversation in a dorm room quoted in Language in Thought and Action, |
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