Gadfly Quotes

Obviously, he had this native intelligence, this sensitivity and this ability to move rapidly through a whole range of material... You could just feel him taking stuff in with that gadfly energy, that hummingbird energy, taking a little something from here, there and everywhere, taking a little something from everything. - Peter Sellars

It's a balancing act between being a gadfly and building collaborative relationships. - Todd Steiner

I am a kamikaze gadfly. - Mo Rocca

Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving. - John Dewey

[INDIANAPOLIS -- It's the kind of statement a politically safe Republican facing a perennial gadfly opponent in 2006 can make.] We're winning the war in Iraq... We've never lost a tactical engagement with the enemy. We've never even lost a platoon. - Mike Pence