Frans de Waal Quotes

Dogmatists have one advantage: they are poor listeners.

Frans de Waal

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• People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Think
  • Hate

• My first agent told me to change my name or I'd only play Jewish parts or Indians. Of course I refused to change it. Shortly thereafter she came up to me and told me I had to keep it, because her numerologist said it was very, very good.

  

  Malachi Throne
  • Up
  • Good
  • She

• I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking that this is what they must do. We thought this was the thing to do to help your family.

  

  B. B. King
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Children

• I think in France, for example, we can say whatever we want about the French, but going out and dining is more about the intellectual moment to share with the people you dine with than trying to figure out what the chef did with that little piece of salmon or lobster and all that.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • People
  • Trying
  • Moment

• Even though I've won numerous titles and an Olympic gold medal, there are still so many faults in my performance that I can honestly hardly bear to watch the videos back.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Gold
  • Performance
  • Bear

• Seventh and eighth grade? That's the worst. I think it's the lowest point of life. All I remember is painful acne and terrible clothes. And lots of getting dumped.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Clothes

• There was something so immensely redemptive and exciting for me to imagine that my unknown father was not just a man who had abandoned me but a noble man of adventure who had no choice.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Father
  • Man
  • Adventure

• Now, I'll tell you something that might interest you. Casino Royale was the first Bond book that Ian Fleming ever wrote. And he couldn't get anybody to touch it, to publish it - he couldn't do anything about it at all. Nobody wanted to know.

  

  Val Guest
  • Book
  • Know
  • Bond

• In America, when you bring an idea to market, you usually have several months before competition pops up, allowing you to capture significant market share. In China, you can have hundreds of competitors within the first hours of going live. Ideas are not important in China - execution is.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • Up
  • Important
  • Live

• My position has always been that the way people age and the signs that we show of aging is nature's way of tattooing. It's natural scarification, and the life you lead gives you the symbols and the emblems of your life, the road map you followed.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • People
  • Life
  • Nature

• Don't get in arguments with your coaches. If you have a certain opinion, express it to the best of your ability. But don't get on his bad side.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Bad
  • Best
  • Opinion

• Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • America
  • Hunting

• I say I like your coat Her thank-you tugs my heart afloat I nearly didn't hear for Seagulls screaming kiss her, kiss her

  

  Andy Partridge
  • Heart
  • Kiss

• 'When you think a negative thought, it releases poison in your system. Next thing you know, you wind up with cancer or other diseases. I try to live in the moment without regrets.'

  

  Willie Nelson
  • Up
  • Live
  • Wind

• In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.

  

  Albert Camus
  • People
  • Time

• By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from a greyhound,

  

  Adam Smith
  • Different
  • Nature

• Adam was a super being when God created him...he had dominion over the fowls of the air which means he used to fly...well of course how could you have dominion over the birds and not be able to do what they do. Adam flew into space, with one thought he would be on the moon.

  

  Benny Hinn
  • God
  • Space
  • Air

• I sang with my father for over 50 years, and now all of a sudden he's gone, and I just dropped out.

  

  Mavis Staples
  • Father

• A certain something, he felt, had managed to work its way in through a tiny opening and was trying to fill a blank space inside him. The void was not one that she had made. It had always been there inside him. She had merely managed to shine a special light on it.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Work
  • Light
  • Managed

• 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' is my first book, and it's the fulfillment of a life-long dream. I had always wanted to be a cartoonist, but I found that it was very tough to break into the world of newspaper syndication. So I started playing with a style that mixed cartoons and 'traditional' writing, and that's how 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' was born.

  

  Jeff Kinney
  • Life
  • World
  • Long

• The real moon,if you could reach it and survive it, would in a deep and deadly sense be just like anywhere else...no man would find an abiding strangness on the moon unless he were the sort of man who could find it in his own back garden.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Men
  • Real
  • Deep

• I am that which I am, and I am willing to allow all others to be that which they are.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Acceptance
  • Willing

• What we witnessed in Ferguson, in Baltimore, and in Baton Rouge was a collapse of social order. So many of the actions of the Occupy movement and Black Lives Matter transcend peaceful protest and violates the code of conduct we rely on. I call it anarchy.

  

  David A. Clarke, Jr.
  • Black

• Dogmatists have one advantage: they are poor listeners.

  

  Frans de Waal