Jean Rostand Quotes

Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.

Jean Rostand

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• I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Good
  • Children
  • Education

• People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Think
  • Pen

• There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Up
  • Veteran
  • Veterans

• I'm the sort of person who keeps a lot to myself.

  

  Patrick Rafter
  • Myself
  • Person
  • Lot

• Unfortunately, I was making comedies in my 20s, but other people didn't realize they were comedies.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Realize
  • Other

• Nothing is better than waking up in the morning and being excited to go into work.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Up
  • Work
  • Morning

• I was born into a profession in which my love of words, chosen with care for their meaning and nuance, was extremely important, not only to me, but also to the people with whom I worked with.

  

  Francesco Quinn
  • People
  • Words
  • Born

• One of the key places where sociology should be used is in analyzing 'the world' of our times, so that we can be more discerning. To resist the dangers of the world, you have to recognize the distortions and seductions of the world.

  

  Os Guinness
  • World
  • Key
  • Sociology

• I think that was one thing I definitely brought to the table, my aggressiveness and my style of play, and I think that's one of the reasons why the fans here really appreciated the way that I went out and played, just because I think they kind of liked that.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Why
  • Think
  • Style

• Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Writing
  • Attention
  • Child

• I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my family there was such a disproportionate female element.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• I was thinking the day most splendid, till I saw what the not-day exhibited;I was thinking this globe enough, till there sprang out so noiseless around me myriads of other globes.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Thinking

• Spangling the wave with lights as vainAs pleasures in the vale of pain,That dazzle as they fade.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Pain

• When Matisse died, he left me his Odalisques 'as a legacy', he proclaimed.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Legacy

• The first instinctive response to any criticism is a defensive response. (The quicker the response, the more defensive.)

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Criticism

• We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities and be responsible for our choices.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Choices
  • Destiny

• You are a good friend and we welcome you.

  

  Condoleezza Rice
  • Good
  • Friend

• It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Work
  • Small

• When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees, I learned the meaning of humility.

  

  James Balog
  • Patience
  • Humility

• I think the average American, if they go to the workplace, somebody's next to 'em, they're not poking around trying to figure out what their religious beliefs are.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • American

• With the neutron bomb, which destroys life but not property, capitalism has found the weapon of its dreams.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Life

• To learn means by practice, by inquiring, by analyzing to find out what is, not what was.

  

  Lobsang Tenzin
  • Practice

• Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.

  

  Jean Rostand