Maurice Merleau-Ponty Quotes

Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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• Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Innovation
  • Management
  • Will

• A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

  

  Ovid
  • Prince
  • Reward
  • Slow

• Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Know
  • Years
  • Dangerous

• Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Will
  • Despair
  • Imperfection

• When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • People
  • Live
  • Door

• I don't tend to do much with my lips. My lips are naturally very pink, so if I add any more colour, it looks like I've been smacked in the mouth!

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Pink
  • Lips
  • Colour

• I think my confidence has developed over the years in terms of the speed at which I will reveal how collaborative I want to be.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Think
  • Confidence
  • Speed

• I know I have a hit show on my hands.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Know
  • Hands
  • Show

• The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch.

  

  Albert Bushnell Hart
  • Free
  • Wise

• In 1995, I made a website, and half the web came to see it, and I thought, 'Man, that's it, that's what I want to do.'

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman

• At the end of the day, you have to look at, 'Are they knowledgeable? Are they doing their job?' Not what their appearance is.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • Job

• Directors tell me what to do, and I kind of just put my own twist to it, just to get inside my personality that everybody doesn't really get to see - my off-the-court interests and the way I act. It's just me.

  

  Kyrie Irving
  • Personality

• A wedding dress is both an intimate and personal for a woman - it must reflect the personality and style of the bride.

  

  Carolina Herrera
  • Style
  • Personality
  • Wedding

• 180 episodes of 'CSI: Miami' and never the same lipstick twice!

  

  Emily Procter
  • Lipstick

• I do think a key to success in any walk of life is having a short memory and a thick skin - I know it has served me well over the years.

  

  Aubrey McClendon
  • Life
  • Success

• The thing is, it's not uncool to worry about people who seem like they're going on the wrong path. There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.

  

  Patti Smith
  • People
  • Cool
  • Worry

• I was like, 'Did I win Roland Garros? What happened?'

  

  Garbine Muguruza

• I'm definitely attracted to the idea of people that have these big aspirations that the audience know might never happen, but they're lost in them.

  

  Chris Lilley
  • People
  • Lost

• I've always had the wish, the nostalgia to be able to write detective novels. At heart, the principal themes of detective novels are close to the things that obsess me: disappearance, the problems of identity, amnesia, the return to an enigmatic past.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Heart
  • Past
  • Me

• The first recipe I made was a disaster. I'd been chopping and pressing dates to create a raw brownie, and I thought it would work even better if I blended them in a food processor. So I went and bought one specially. When my boyfriend at the time came over to try the results, he took one bite and spat it out - I'd left the plastic on the blades.

  

  Ella Woodward
  • Time
  • Work
  • Food

• Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Truth
  • Imagination
  • Meaning

• The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • History
  • Will
  • Happen

• 'As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid' is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall Out Boy, there's some expectation that I'm going to be lyrically obtuse. But that song is a straight-faced satire of consumerism.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Long
  • History
  • Song

• Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.

  

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  • History
  • Meaning