Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes

Understand me well. My appeal is to observation - observation that each of you must make for himself.

Charles Sanders Peirce

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• From the consumer perspective, what happened in the U.S. 10 years ago and Europe five years ago is now happening in Russia. People are beginning to understand that e-commerce is easy and safe.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • People
  • Beginning
  • Perspective

• I don't care about losses anymore.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Care
  • Anymore
  • Losses

• When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Family
  • Car
  • Movies

• No one knows anything about the fashion industry in Brazil. They don't care what you do. They just want the beach and the sun and the fun. I feel the freest and the happiest there.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Fun
  • Fashion
  • Sun

• We have this historic problem that we have a quarter of our population, the people of Quebec, who have never signed on to the Constitution. That can't go on forever.

  

  Jack Layton
  • People
  • Forever
  • Constitution

• A lot of people want to discredit me.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • People
  • Want
  • Me

• I join President Obama and the vast majority of Chicagoans who are tired of waiting for Washington to get serious about gun violence.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Serious
  • Violence
  • Waiting

• In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.

  

  Fannie Flagg
  • You
  • Miss
  • Grades

• Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• I want to show audiences I can act.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Want
  • Act
  • I Can

• A good team, like a good show, comes into being when the separate individuals working together create, in essence, another separate higher entity - the team - the show - which is better than any of those individuals can ever be on their own.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • Good
  • Together
  • Team

• None of these challenges can be solved quickly or easily. But all of them demand that we listen to one another and work together; that we focus on our common interests, not on occasional differences; and that we reaffirm our shared values, which are stronger than any force that could drive us apart. That is the work that we must carry on.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Together
  • Focus

• What I see is not a world of male oppression and female victimization but an international conspiracy by women to keep from men the knowledge of men's own frailty. A strange maternal protectiveness is at work.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • World
  • Work
  • Men

• Gertrude Johnson could feel no real respect for, no real interest in, anybody who wasn't a writer. For her there were two species: writers and people; and the writers were really people, and the people weren't.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • People
  • Real
  • Respect

• Fuck that! Conor McGregor, you're taking everything I've worked for, motherfucker! I'm going to fight your fucking ass!

  

  Nate Diaz

• You are not in control of your mind-because you, as a conscious agent, are only part of your mind, living at the mercy of other parts.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Mind
  • Control
  • Mercy

• I hope you will understand my hesitation in writing to one whom I admire as the greatest representative of a philosophy to which I want to dedicate my whole life.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Hope

• I have no problem with them imitating me. It's a compliment. Everybody has to start out looking up to someone. For me it was James Brown, Sammy Davis Jr., Jackie Wilson, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Up

• I don't know if Prince even really paid attention to time. The moment of creativity is the moment, and you go at that moment.

  

  Antoine Fuqua
  • Time
  • Attention
  • Creativity

• It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Die
  • Deep

• I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • Truth
  • Literature
  • Economics

• Having a clone would make it so much easier - it would be great to send a clone to a TV station when I have to get up at 4am.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Up
  • Great
  • Clone

• She sensed it, saw my eyes wet with tears, and only then must have discovered I was no longer the man I had been, and I endured her glance with a courage I never thought I had.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • She
  • Eyes
  • Courage

• Understand me well. My appeal is to observation - observation that each of you must make for himself.

  

  Charles Sanders Peirce