Titles Quotes

• I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

  George Washington

  Trust, Hope, Truth

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.46, Rowman & Littlefield

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• In the United States, they always talk about subtitles, about chapters in a book without taking the main title of the book. They talk about a subtitle in a chapter and if you ask them about the headline, the main title, they say they do not know.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Book, United States, Headlines

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• Each had his own business to think of. Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title.

  Virginia Woolf

  Friendship, Women, Book

  "Selected Works of Virginia Woolf".

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• In New York in 1915 I bought at a hardware store a snow shovel on which I wrote in advance of the broken arm .

  Marcel Duchamp

  New York, Snow, Broken

  Marcel Duchamp (1994). “Duchamp: Passim : a Marcel Duchamp Anthology”, Craftsman House

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• Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.

  Thomas Paine

  Pain, Motivation, Nicknames

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THE RIGHTS OF MAN: The French Revolution – Ideals, Arguments & Motives (Political Classic): Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.46, e-artnow

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• Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

  Colin Powell

  Organization, Fancy, Next

  Colin L. Powell (1995). “My American Journey”, Random House Incorporated

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• The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.

  Laurence Sterne

  Book, People, Way

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• A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping.

  Robert Breault

  Art, Moon, Painting

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• I think now I'm up to something like 85 different titles that I've published.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Thinking, Different, Literature

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• Sentimental titles are the last bastion of scoundrels, and can add significant barf to an already barfy work.

  Robert Genn

  Add, Lasts, Sentimental

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• Titles have never given a just idea of things; were it otherwise, the work would be superfluous.

  Gustave Courbet

  Ideas, Would Be, Given

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• It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Philosophical, Men, Honor

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• Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title

  Robin Sharma

  Doors, Games, Names

  Twitter post from Dec 07, 2016

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• I start from something considered dead and arrive at a world. And when I put a title on it, it becomes even more alive.

  Joan Miro

  Alive, World

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• Virtue is the first title of nobility.

  Moliere

  Firsts, Virtue, Nobility

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• We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.

  Carl Sandburg

  Book, Thinking, Literature

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• Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mediocre, Inferiors, Superiors

  Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Titles"

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• The only problem we've had is the amount of time it's taking people to develop titles.

  Trip Hawkins

  People, Problem, Economy

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• A policeman in plain clothes is a man; in his uniform he is ten. Clothes and title are the most potent thing, the most formidable influence, in the earth. They move the human race to willing and spontaneous respect for the judge, the general, the admiral, the bishop, the ambassador, the frivolous earl, the idiot duke, the sultan, the king, the emperor. No great title is efficient without clothes to support it.

  Mark Twain

  Kings, Moving, Men

  Mark Twain (2017). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated Edition): Novels, Short Stories, Memoir, Travel Books, Letters, Biography, Articles & Speeches: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Yankee in King Arthur's Court…”, p.5021, e-artnow

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• When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?

  Branford Marsalis

  Mean, Identification, Lofty

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• Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement.

  Robert Genn

  Factual, Pure

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• Any picture that needs a caption is a weak picture.

  Harvey Dunn

  Needs, Caption, Weak

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• Titles do not count with posterity.

  Thomas Paine

  Posterity

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• IF YOUR JOB IS CUSTOMER SATISFACTION, YOUR REAL JOB TITLE IS PROBLEM SOLVER.

  Brian Tracy

  Jobs, Real, Satisfaction

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• One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Book, Body, Pages

  Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.353

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