Vincent Frank Quotes

In business -- every business -- the bottom line is understanding the process. If you don't understand the process, you'll never reap the rewards of the process.

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

I think that we'll continue to try to look at ourselves in the mirror and see where we can do a better job, maybe where we can improve the process. But I think the fundamentals of the process will remain the same.

We are on the precipice of being so ignorant that our democracy is threatened.

You're never going to truly wrap your head around things that take a lifetime to study while making a movie.

When I started I had no knowledge of films whatsoever. I was an engineering major at Stanford. And I found out as a senior that they had two film critics on the Stanford Daily, and they got free passes to all the theaters in Palo Alto. So I thought, I'll do that, and I became a film critic. And then I became interested in films. But I had no time to study anything in that area because I was a senior, just finishing up as engineering.

A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.

Something went wrong. It was correct when I studied it.

The greatest embarrassment of my political career has been that active duties seem to deprive me of time for careful investigation. I seem almost obliged to form conclusions from impressions instead of from study.... I wish that I had more knowledge, more thorough acquaintance, with the matters involved.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.

If there's one thing that really annoys a god, it's not knowing something.

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.

Ignorance is constricted awareness.

Today, it is not only that our kings do not know mathematics, but our philosophers do not know mathematics and - to go a step further - our mathematicians do not know mathematics.

It's only those who are persistent and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the master work.

Our biggest problem as human beings is not knowing that we don't know.

I know everything I need to know already," Rigg always said... To which Father always replied,"See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you need to know the things you don't know yet." "So tell me," said Rigg. "I would but you're too ignorant to understand the reasons why your ignorance is a fatal disease.

I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my job.

IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.

Why not do as much as you can, and learn as much as you can about each process?

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing... My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System.

The combination of fear and ignorance (two sides of the same coin) can be paralyzing.

Stupidity is not another form of knowledge.

Since I essentially knew nothing, I had an almost completely free choice.