The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is. ~James Gray
#quotes #james-gray #work #personality

Intelligence is: the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting. ~Ray Kurzweil
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The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful. ~Mary McCarthy
#quotes #mary-mccarthy #present #past #memories

Embrace your dorkdom or rail against it. The choice is yours. ~Brendan Fraser
#quotes #brendan-fraser #decisions

I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing; my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes. ~Gary Kemp
#quotes #gary-kemp

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is. ~Hermann Hesse
#quotes #hermann-hesse #respect #relationship #honor

I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, "Ow, ow, put it back!" ~Geena Davis
#quotes #geena-davis #humor

It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
#proverbs #irish-proverbs #adversity

It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting. ~Harry Mathews
#quotes #harry-mathews #life #childhood #boys

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. ~George Bernard Shaw
#quotes #george-bernard-shaw #war #soldier

Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second. ~Etty Hillesum
#quotes #etty-hillesum #chance

Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. ~Spanish Proverb
#proverbs #spanish-proverbs #jealousy

I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all. ~Nancy Sinatra
#quotes #nancy-sinatra #australia #germany #japan #united-states

Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people. ~Jane Fonda
#quotes #jane-fonda #youth #children #education #future

In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
#quotes #yayoi-kusama #georgia-o-keeffe #art #books

What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back; you have to be a kind of team going through life. ~Tom Petty
#quotes #tom-petty #marriage

Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis. ~Jane Fonda
#quotes #jane-fonda #sports #running #women

Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves. ~John Calvin
#quotes #john-calvin #god

When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected. ~Tommy Shaw
#quotes #tommy-shaw #rights

Though they may not always be handsome, men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues. ~Jean Genet
#quotes #jean-genet #evil

Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than it is, we will be like someone who tries to patch over a crack. ~Desmond Tutu
#quotes #desmond-tutu #past #trust

To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult. ~Yann Arthus-Bertrand
#quotes #yann-arthus-bertrand #life #success

In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence. ~Gary Ross
#quotes #gary-ross #complexity #simplicity

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #teaching #knowledge

Playing football, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. That first knock of the game, you are going on kickoff, and you are just trying to smack somebody just as hard as you can. That's how I play baseball. I want to hit you. ~Bryce Harper
#quotes #bryce-harper #games #football #baseball