Jean-Francois Lyotard Quotes

A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

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• We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day, but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Live
  • Done
  • Day

• There was nothing about 'The Killing' that patronized its audience, and it was quite slow and detailed, all of the things which, for a long time, people had been nervous of making.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• It's so funny, I've done so many projects where I've been interrogated. I guest starred on almost every hour drama, and I'm always the guy they think is the bad guy but then they find out is not.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Done
  • Bad
  • Guy

• I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Music
  • Me
  • Sound

• I'm coming to this world not to work. I want to come to this world to enjoy my life. I don't want to die in my office. I want to die on the beaches.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• We think touch is short-term. The mouse and keyboard were stable for 25 years, but I think touch will be stable for 10 years. Post-touch will be stable for a really long time, longer than 25 years.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Time
  • Long
  • Think

• Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Great
  • Game
  • Success

• I just want to be in good things that I want to see, and I want to work with talented people who are smarter than myself.

  

  Adam Brody
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Once publishers got interested in it, it was a year in developing, and it was launched, I think, in 1960. But Willie Lumpkin didn't last long - it only last a little better than a year, maybe a year and a half.

  

  Dan DeCarlo
  • Long
  • Better
  • Year

• It's nice to look good and have a great body, but you enjoy your life so much more if you are fit. That is the message I definitely want to get out.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it would include a memorial to those removed from their families. However, they refused to include any of those who were removed in the design of their own memorial.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • Government
  • Design
  • Creation

• There is such a thing as Literary Fashion, and prose and verse have been regulated by the same caprice that cuts our coats and cocks our hats.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Fashion

• Money is a crystal formed of necessity in the course of the exchanges, whereby different products of labour are practically equated to one another and thus by practice converted into commodities.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Different
  • Money
  • Practice

• Good wine needs no bush,And perhaps products that people really want need nohard-sell or soft-sell TV push.Why not?Look at pot.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.

  

  Khaled Hosseini

• If we believe that the task of physics is the discovery of a timeless mathematical equation that captures every aspect of the universe, then we believe that the truth about the universe lies outside the universe.

  

  Lee Smolin
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Universe

• I don't think goodness is something that you learn. If you're left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • World

• Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that.

  

  Alan Ball

• My default position is not to be an actor. My default position is to be a follower of Jesus Christ. If that means I continue in acting, great! I'd love that. But if it means I need to change professions someday because I can't provide for my family, well, that's what I need to do.

  

  Kirk Cameron
  • Great
  • Family
  • Jesus

• Usually, a model gets two to three seasons, or a year and a half, and that's it - you're done. For me, it will be 10 years.

  

  Coco Rocha
  • Done
  • Model

• You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Horse
  • Airplane
  • Lovely

• Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Great
  • God
  • Eyes

• A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before.

  

  Jean-Francois Lyotard