To the old, the new is usually bad news.
Eric Hoffer

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
Francis Bacon

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer

Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.
Eric Hoffer

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
Eric Hoffer

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.
Thomas Sowell

Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
Thomas Sowell

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
Douglas Adams

In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.
Alfred Adler

I really don't have a favorite course. I usually ask where there are the least players.
Darrell Royal

I try not to play two days in succession. I usually try to space it so I have a day in between.
Darrell Royal

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
Roald Dahl

My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.
Meryl Streep

The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.
Flannery O'Connor

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
Bertrand Russell

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
William James

A window of opportunity for me usually involves a rock.
Jay London