Gaston Bachelard Quotes

By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.

Gaston Bachelard

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• Listening
• Child
• Sea
• Dreams
• Dreamer
• Murmur

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• Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

  

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• My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?

  

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• Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.

  

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• The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.

  

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• I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.

  

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• I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.

  

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• Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?

  

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• When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.

  

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• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

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• When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.

  

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• The science shows that the best way to use money is to take the issue of money off the people. Pay people enough so that money isn't an issue, and they can focus on doing great work.

  

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• Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I'm an optimist, so I like to think we've progressed in some ways - in Australia, we get equal pay.

  

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• The International Committee of the Red Cross visits roughly half a million detainees in nearly 100 countries each year. It's our job to try to prevent and put an end to torture and ill-treatment.

  

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• Cleanliness', chuckled Sir Benjamin, noting his great niece's delighted smile as her eyes rested upon him, 'comes next to godliness, eh, Maria?

  

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• By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • World
  • Words
  • Listening