Plotinus Quotes

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

Plotinus

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• I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and automobiles. And really talented, weird people.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • People
  • Up
  • Know

• I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Like
  • Something
  • Say

• The things that drive me are poverty, and pain, and knowing that I don't want to end up being alone and I want to do something with my life and I want the name Dobson to remain in everyone's heads. Basically, just to rock and be the best performer I can be, and be true, and be real, and give people the real Fefe, nothing fake, all real.

  

  Fefe Dobson
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I guess I was just meant to be a secretary who doesn't take shorthand. I'm a lousy typist, too - 33 words a minute.

  

  Barbara Hale
  • Words
  • Just
  • Meant To Be

• The ancestor of every action is a thought.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Action
  • Thought
  • Every

• Sometimes, it's good to stick to your guns.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Good
  • Sometimes
  • Guns

• In Congress, I'll work hard to encourage investment in education, particularly with respect to technology and bridging the digital divide.

  

  Hakeem Jeffries
  • Work
  • Education
  • Respect

• I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Limits

• I'm obsessed with fuzz pedals.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Obsessed

• There is almost nothing more painful for a leader than seeing good people leave a growing organization, whether it's a priest watching a Sunday school teacher walk out the door or a CEO saying goodbye to a co-founder.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Good
  • School

• I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Think
  • Working
  • Thrive

• Working from home as a mother is the worst of everything. You don't have clear boundaries. The kids can get used to you going to work; they can't get used to you ignoring them. And work sometimes gets the message you're not as committed.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Work
  • Home
  • Kids

• We're not doing outrageous fashion; I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Fashion
  • Sports
  • Clothes

• I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Experience
  • Because
  • Focused

• For me, it's important to build good partnerships rather than score centuries. Once, you have those partnerships, you will also get centuries.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Good
  • Important
  • Me

• One of my favourite activities is eating.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Eating
  • Favourite

• I call myself a geriatric starlet.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Myself
  • Call
  • Starlet

• When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Life
  • Silly

• Television has raised writing to a new low.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Writing
  • New
  • Television

• General, I have been a soldier all my life. I have been with soldiers engaged in fights by couples, by squads, companies, regiments, divisions, and armies, and should know, as well as any one, what soldiers can do. It is my opinion that no fifteen thousand men ever arranged for battle can take that position.

  

  James Longstreet
  • Life
  • Men
  • Opinion

• I have to. I'd give everything I had for that not to have happened. Those little boys were my life.

  

  Larry Taylor Canned Heat
  • Life
  • Boys
  • Happened

• I started theater when I was three, and I started doing professional acting when I was nine.

  

  Liana Liberato
  • Professional

• I don't really know what I'm doing, to be honest. I come up with things, and maybe it works, and maybe it doesn't, and I try to learn from my castmates and director and from everyone.

  

  Margaret Qualley
  • Up

• Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

  

  Plotinus