Gaston Bachelard Quotes

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectifications of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

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• I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Attention
  • Enjoy
  • Pay

• I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Up
  • High
  • See

• My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Great
  • Fear
  • Trump

• What did we want out of Iraq? We wanted a country that was stable and secure, that elected its own government, that was not going to be a threat to its neighbors and also was capable of protecting and defending itself. That was our objective in Iraq.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Country
  • Want
  • Government

• I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • Think
  • Career
  • Acting

• It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Down
  • Entrepreneur
  • Finding

• I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Stop
  • Athlete
  • Gym

• If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Money
  • Credit
  • Bitcoin

• Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Value
  • End
  • Capitalism

• 'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.

  

  Barbara Cooney
  • Heart
  • Right
  • Ego

• The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Poetry
  • Feelings
  • Thought

• My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Teacher
  • Brother
  • Sister

• I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.

  

  Barbara Cook
  • Time
  • Family
  • First

• We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • America
  • Black

• I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.

  

  M. Ward
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Baby

• I've always been fascinated by the concept of reincarnation. I learned that many brilliant people were interested in reincarnation, including Carl Jung. I'm a big Jungian. So I began writing novels involving theories integrating past and present, even if the past element in the novel took place 500 or 1,000 years ago.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Writing
  • Past

• Simply put, our nation's economy will only go as far as our small businesses will take it.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Economy
  • Nation

• Strenuously competitive parents may indeed produce high-achieving grownups, but it’s in the nature of things that high-achieving adults are likely to become frustrated and embittered old people, once the rug is pulled out from under their occupation.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • People
  • May
  • Nature

• It is always easy to question the judgement of others in matters of which we may be imperfectly informed.

  

  P. D. James
  • May
  • Question

• 'Christian Mingle' is about a young, modern, single woman. She's trying to achieve it all - a successful career, amazing friends, and finding Mr. Right. She stumbles into the world of online dating looking for an instant 'soul mate solution,' but ultimately ends up taking a personal journey transforming her life.

  

  Corbin Bernsen
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• I'd sneak out of the house to meet girls at 3:30 a.m.

  

  Aidan Quinn
  • House

• We had violence directed at us by the growers themselves, trying to run us down by cars, pointing rifles at us, spraying the people when they were on the picket line with sulfur.

  

  Dolores Huerta
  • People
  • Trying
  • Violence

• Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectifications of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • May
  • Hope
  • Past