What did Laurence J. Peter mean by: An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it. - Laurence J. Peter Educator Copy
+ Only mediocrities rise to the top in a system that won’t tolerate wave making. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Laurence J. Peter, Mediocrity, Tolerate, Wave, 0 - Laurence J. Peter Educator
+ Give a child enough rope and he will trip you up. Feraz Zeid, June 15, 2023December 12, 2023, Laurence J. Peter, Children, Rope, 0 - Laurence J. Peter Educator
+ Poetry is that which is lost in translation. Feraz Zeid, September 27, 2023December 26, 2023, Laurence J. Peter, Lost, Poetry, 0 - Laurence J. Peter Educator
+ It’s strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Laurence J. Peter, Sarcasm, Sarcastic, 0 - Laurence J. Peter Educator
+ In the country of the blind, the one-eyed king can still goof up. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Laurence J. Peter, Country, Government, Kings, 0 - Laurence J. Peter Educator
+ Competition in academia is so vicious because the stakes are so small. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Laurence J. Peter, Competition, Vicious, 0 - Laurence J. Peter Educator
+ Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Laurence J. Peter, Example, Purpose, 0 - Laurence J. Peter Educator
+ A free press is one that prints a dictator’s speech but doesn’t have to. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Laurence J. Peter, Dictator, Print, Speech, 0 - Laurence J. Peter Educator
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
I didn’t know how to run a business. I was a terrible gallerist, the worst in history, possibly. - Jeffrey Deitch Art dealer
Pretty much the worst reason to bomb someone is to prove that you’re willing to bomb someone. - Jeffrey Goldberg
I am at my worst trying to write about things that overlap with my life. - Jennifer Egan Novelist · USA
When we speak truth to power we are ignored at best and brutally suppressed at worst - Jeremy Hammond
The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves. - Frantz Fanon Psychiatrist · Martinique
