Quotes by Should Have If Albert Einstein was right, Cal Ripken should have been a CEO or politician rather than a shortstop, because Ripken led by example over and over... and over again. Don Yaeger politicianexampleshould-have An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted. Donald Cram fogshould-haveideas I always look back and say I should have made more. It should have been more lucrative, but it wasnt. Donald Dunn should-havemadelooks People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird. Donald Knuth should-havewritingideas ...I should have people around bugging me and getting under my skin because without people I could not grow - I could not grow in God, and I could not grow as a human. Donald Miller skinsshould-havepeople I feel I let my team down today. My heart is bleeding for everybody else. I felt like I should have gotten it done today. That's how it is. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. Dontrelle Willis teamworkshould-haveheart I use color as my chief guide. But I always squeeze an avocado - you want the fruit to feel close to the skin. If you can feel a separation, the avocado is past its prime. The avocado should have a little give, but not much. Dorie Greenspan colorshould-havepast We do have a saying in America: if you're in a hole, stop digging ..... erm, I'm not sure I should have said that. Donald Rumsfeld diggingshould-haveamerica A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself. Dorothy Fields milieushould-havemoving Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on. Dorothy Hamill should-havesportsthinking It seems to me quite disastrous that the idea should have got about that Christianity is an other-worldly, unreal, idealistic kind of religion that suggests that if we are good we shall be happy. On the contrary, it is fiercely and even harshly realistic, insisting that there are certain eternal achievements that make even happiness look like trash. Dorothy L. Sayers achievementshould-haveideas God forbid we should have great institutions. The thing is to have many small centres. The ideal is community. Dorothy Day institutionscommunityshould-have They should have picked a different city to name after a man who reputedly never told a lie. Doug Larson should-havemenlying We no longer think of chairs as technology, we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often "crash" when we tried to use them. Before long, computers will be as trivial and plentiful as chairs and we will cease to be aware of the things. In fact I'm sure we will look back on this last decade and wonder how we could ever have mistaken what we were doing with them for "productivity" Douglas Adams technologyshould-havethinking I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid. Dorothy L. Sayers intellectualshould-havethinking [On Kay Strozzi in The Silent Witness:] Miss Strozzi ... had the temerity to wear as truly horrible a gown as ever I have seen on the American stage. ... Had she not luckily been strangled by a member of the cast while disporting this garment, I should have fought my way to the stage and done her in, myself. Dorothy Parker should-havemissingway God picks us up where we are, not where we should have been Douglas Wilson pickshas-beensshould-have One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel -- the quality of philosophy. Doris Lessing qualityshould-havephilosophy A girl should have two things: a smile, and a guy who inspires it. Drake girlshould-havefunny for real pleasure a pleasure resort should have no one in it but its legitimate inhabitants, oneself, and perhaps one's friends. Doris Lessing pleasurerealshould-have«2122232425262728293031»
