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

• I never had a father figure so I never missed it.

  

  Jamie Bell
  • Father

• Whoopi Goldberg, Lily Tomlin, Julia Louis-Dreyfus - I put Issa Rae in that category of comic genius.

  

  Jay Ellis

• Six decades ago, as Mao's Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, 'Who lost China?' Now, as his capitalist descendants stand astride the world stage and Washington worries about decline, it seems to be, 'Who lost America?'

  

  Eric Liu
  • World
  • Power
  • America

• Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

  

  Miles Davis
  • American
  • Playing
  • Jazz

• I don't necessarily call myself a psychic, but since I was a little girl, I would dream about things, and then I would tell my dad, and it would happen the next day.

  

  Zoe McLellan
  • Dream
  • Girl
  • Dad

• Dogmatists have one advantage: they are poor listeners.

  

  Frans de Waal