James C. Collins Quotes

I am completely Socratic.

James C. Collins

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• I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Mother
  • Death
  • Dad

• What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Up
  • Real
  • Want

• I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • American
  • Want

• In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Time
  • End
  • Born

• Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Life
  • Real
  • Easy

• On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Reading
  • Best
  • Self

• I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Man

• Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • You
  • Rich
  • Will

• My father taught me many important giving lessons, but two stand out. First, always give as much as you possibly can. And second, give equally from among your resources - your time, your mind and your capital. These are principles I live by.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Time
  • Important
  • Live

• To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Life
  • Real
  • Need

• Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Time
  • Long
  • Taken

• Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • History
  • Change
  • Jesus

• I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.

  

  Patrick Murray
  • Bad
  • Me
  • First

• To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • May
  • More
  • Riches

• Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Money
  • Control
  • System

• I still do the standard editorial cartoon: that is my bread and butter. I absolutely love doing that.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Bread
  • Cartoon
  • Standard

• There are so many cute vintage dresses made out of synthetics from the '60s and '70s - but they're so itchy and hot. It's not worth it!

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Cute
  • Worth
  • Vintage

• I spend most of my time in a room alone where eight hours go by, and I have no sense of time. I work seven days a week, and I live in this sort of vague subconscious fog a lot.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Time
  • Work
  • Live

• 'I've got a sort of idea,' said Pooh at last, 'but I don't suppose it's a very good one.' 'I don't suppose it is either,' said Eeyore.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Good

• Religion is the process of unconscious wish fulfillment, where, for certain people, if the process did not take place it would put them in self-danger of coming to mental harm, being unable to cope with the idea of a godless, purposeless life.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Life
  • Religion
  • Fulfilment

• My favourite way of getting ready for a red carpet event is to turn the hair and makeup time into a bit of a pre-party. I use the same artists all of the time, so we know each other so well - so it's a 'hanging with friends' session. Music, lots of laughing, and food - because you must eat before the event.

  

  Behati Prinsloo
  • Time
  • Music
  • Friends

• Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.

  

  Kesha
  • Society

• As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Existence
  • New Things
  • Pacified

• I am completely Socratic.

  

  James C. Collins