Peter Munk Quotes

I'm not exactly an Einstein, so I compensate by being more focused.

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• One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Years
  • More
  • Contentment

• Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Movement
  • Dictatorship

• Dining with a married couple can be uncomfortable.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Couple
  • Married
  • Uncomfortable

• I keep seeing in the papers that I am good friends with Samantha Cameron. I've never met her in my life.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Friends

• In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Up
  • America
  • Boy

• When markets are rallying, cash in the portfolio is a drag on performance, returning about zero.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Performance
  • Zero
  • Returning

• I have a great plain blue shirt from APC, and a denim one from Dolce that I wear constantly. It's hard to find the perfect denim shirt, but this is it.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Great
  • Perfect
  • Blue

• For me as a filmmaker, I do the projects I'm really excited about.

  

  Laura Ziskin
  • Me
  • Really
  • Excited

• Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • You
  • Truth Is
  • Minority

• The only time I eat alone is if I'm really tired or upset about something or on the phone to one of my friends, when it's easier to be alone. But you can't be too wrapped up in yourself... it starts making you look a little bit prima donna.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • Up
  • Time
  • Friends

• The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • People
  • Fall
  • Humility

• The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Dangerous
  • Mountains
  • Places

• In television, you are of necessity working in bits and pieces and scenes, and things are out of order, and you never can have the same sense of how will this look when it's all put together, what will the effect be.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • Together
  • You
  • Look

• Me and Woody Harrelson, we're twins. We're the same person. I should only make movies with him.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Person
  • Movies
  • Twins

• I'm not really into the whole lyrics thing; I just like to make music that people like to listen to.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • People
  • Music
  • Lyrics

• First, I eat healthy; it comes from the inside out. If you eat right, your skin, hair, nails will look good. The same if you have negative thoughts - they can give you a bad look, too; we reflect what we eat and think. We also taste and smell what we eat. Being happy and doing what I love really reflects.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Happy
  • Right
  • Healthy

• My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Author
  • Athlete
  • Accomplishment

• Physically, it's getting impossible for me to travel that much. I want to support my artists by showing up at their openings, but I can't always be in Hong Kong one minute and Geneva the next.

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • Up
  • Support
  • Travel

• I sometimes don't try to invent something. I wait for some kind of a direction - and it happens. I get an angle, for instance, and it just appears, and I say, 'Oh my God - that's it!'

  

  Ellsworth Kelly
  • God

• As we think of power in the 21st century, we want to get away from the idea that power’s always zero sum — my gain is your loss and vice versa. Power can also be positive sum, where your gain can be my gain.

  

  Joseph Nye
  • Ideas
  • Gains
  • Vices

• I've a lot of respect for what people are doing here in Manchester, to promote the city's creativity and Aviva Investors Manchester Art Fair has played a big role in that. I'm glad to bring my work to the North West.

  

  Ben Eine
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Creativity

• At the entrance, my bare feet on the dirt floor, Here, gusts of heat; at my back, white clouds. I stare and stare. It seems I was called for this: To glorify things just because they are.

  

  Czeslaw Milosz
  • Clouds

• I'm not exactly an Einstein, so I compensate by being more focused.

  

  Peter Munk