Emil Cioran Quotes

Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity.

Emil Cioran

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• Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That's the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Change

• First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us - especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Work
  • America

• I love boxing. I box in a local boxing gym in London. I usually spar. But I've done two fights and I lost both of them admirably. I didn't realize how much it would hurt for them to actually hit me.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • Lost
  • Hurt
  • Realize

• I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Art
  • Business
  • Parents

• Women's inclusion in the economy is one of the most important issues in Israel.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Important
  • Women
  • Economy

• A writer has to live with a sense of honor.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Live
  • Honor
  • Writer

• It was never my goal to be an actor.

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Never
  • Goal
  • Actor

• I hate exercising self-control.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Hate
  • Control
  • Self-Control

• When we moved to L.A., I started going out for more commercials, and then one day they emailed me a movie script. The first thing I said was, 'No way. I love commercials.'

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Love
  • Movie
  • Way

• The smart way to build a literary career is you create an identifiable product, then reliably produce that product so people know what they are going to get. That's the smart way to build a career, but not the fun way. Maybe you can think about being less successful and happier. That's an option, too.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • People
  • Fun
  • Career

• I shaved the back of my head once and did the asymmetrical hair.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Hair
  • Back
  • Head

• But we talk about issues, we talk about people, we talk about personalities. George is a very good reader of people, and he's very perceptive about people, and you know, that's fine.

  

  Laura Bush
  • People
  • Good
  • Know

• I hate when you go into a nice restaurant - someplace where you're going to spend good money - and there are kids in there crying.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Good
  • Money
  • Kids

• I wasn't a glamour-puss, and there were more interesting roles for an actress like me in the theater and in live television.

  

  Nancy Marchand
  • Live
  • Interesting
  • Me

• In my next life, I'm going to be a rock star. I was a ballerina in my last life.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Life
  • Rock
  • Star

• Justice is merely incidental to law and order.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Law
  • Justice
  • Order

• Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But while I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Success

• This is Reagan country. Yeah! And perhaps it was destiny that the man who went to California`s Eureka College would become so woven within and interlinked to the Golden State.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • Men
  • Country
  • College

• Chances are that neither the client nor the agency will ever know very much about what role the ad has played in sales or profits of the client, either short-term or long-term.

  

  Michael Schudson
  • Business
  • Term
  • Clients

• If theres something really, really bothering me about a script, then Ill say something, but otherwise I find my answers in the script.

  

  Melissa McBride
  • Answers
  • Scripts

• I'm a motivational speaker.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Motivational
  • Speaker

• Never think you can't do something. I definitely never thought I could write a book, and even after I started writing it, I was like, 'Oh my God, how am I gonna write a book?' Just set your sights high and reach for the stars. Go live your dreams, and never think you can't.

  

  Connor Franta
  • God
  • Writing
  • Live

• Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity.

  

  Emil Cioran