Stanley Schmidt Quotes

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

I simply wanted to state that during this little slice of history, this is what happened and these were the good sides of it, these were the more dangerous sides of it, and this was the result.

It's our potential for good stuff I'm most interested in exploring, but that has most meaning when juxtaposed with things that can go wrong.

The good inside of all of us is wrapped in a layer of apathy, and we forget how much potential we have within us, in each and every one of us, to change the world for the better for ourselves and our children, and thus to bring about oneness.

Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.

It's always the organizations that are resource constrained that come up with the good ideas to win.

I love good film, whether it's an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren't necessarily eccentric ones but they're the more specific ones.

That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.

To me, there's two types of songs, good and bad. And I just like to stick with the good ones.

Good and bad - this is the story of my life.

What science fiction does is take what might be possible someday and examine what might happen if it were - the drawbacks and the positive things.

Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw and field just by watching games on TV. By the time they're out of high school, the good ones are almost ready to play professional ball.

Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.

In a very complex way, things have improved in the dramatic field. Before you had the good and the bad and you couldn't mingle them. Now it's more ambiguous.

How did the economy produce all these amazing things that we have around us - computers and cell phones and so on? There were a bunch of ideas, and the good ones grew and prospered. And the bad ones were pretty ruthlessly weeded out.

The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don't like adolescents - even the good ones can be snarky and unpleasant. Combine the antipathy we feel toward the average teenager with the fear inspired by youth violence, and you have a population that no one wants to deal with.

Remember, the goal of structured futures thinking is to come up with a picture of possible futures that will help to inform strategic decisions.

But nothing is better than the market, where the customer and the business deal directly with each other, because if you rip people off, word gets out. That business eventually loses its customers, and the good ones that serve people well get the business. You get government in there, and it's just more money for the lawyers who write the bills.

I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones.

The list of my favorite experiences would almost equal the list of plays I've been in. There are a few exceptions, but out of politeness I'm not going to mention them. If you don't have a few stinkers, you can't appreciate the good ones.

It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.

You've to celebrate the good days because there are brutal days that make the good ones sweet.

Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain.

You read a million scripts during pilot season, and most of them are not very good, so the good ones really shine.

The only way you can obtain brood mares on a basis you can afford is to buy two or three yearling fillies every year and race them. The good ones, the ones that show potentialities, you keep, and the others you get rid of. In that way, you have a chance to build up a good brood mare band.