Paul Bloom Quotes

Humans are social beings, and we are happier, and better, when connected to others.

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• The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
  • Travel
  • Connection
  • Gift

• I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.

  

  J. Anthony Lukas
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Creativity

• The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Successful
  • Research
  • Theory

• Hair and make-up always helps. I did always try to be well-groomed, professional at all times. Take your job seriously - but not yourself.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Up
  • Job
  • Hair

• I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Up
  • May
  • Day

• The crown must constantly earn citizens' appreciation, respect and trust.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Respect
  • Trust
  • Appreciation

• As an actress, as you get older, you find yourself in a situation where you play mothers or women who are hoping to be mothers.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Women
  • Yourself
  • Find

• What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Real
  • You
  • Me

• To me, AIDS is an international epidemic and every country can be affected by it. Therefore, it can be discussed on an international level. Unfortunately, AIDS doesn't require a visa.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Country
  • Me
  • Aids

• I didn't have any Indigenous friends until I was in my 30s, and I'll always remember and be inspired by the remarkable friendship I had with Connie Bush, an outstanding Indigenous leader from Groot Eylandt on who was on the National Women's Advisory Council with me.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Women
  • Friends
  • Remember

• What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

  

  Natasha Calis
  • Life
  • Different
  • Characters

• Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Study

• Talking to a conservative is like talking to your refrigerator... You know, the light goes on, the light goes off; it's not going to do anything that isn't built into it... And I'm not going to talk to a conservative anymore than I talk to my damn refrigerator.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Light

• Animistic savages prostrating themselves before a painted stone have always seemed to me to be nearer the truth than any Einstein or Bertrand Russell.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Truth

• Here I still flow in God as a small stream of time, There I shall be a sea of blessedness sublime

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Time
  • God
  • Small

• The greatest theatre that I experienced in my life was The Living Theatre and they were Off-Off-Broadway. And that was in the fifties.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Life
  • Theatre

• Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

  

  Daniel Webster
  • Cool

• In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.

  

  Donald Norman
  • Single
  • Opinion
  • Design

• When I go to hotels, sometimes I find waiters and people who do not address me as 'Mr.' or address me as a normal guest would have been addressed, simply because my name is Maddy. I find that slightly offending, but I don't react to it thinking that maybe the name is so casual that people think it's a buddy that you are talking to.

  

  R. Madhavan
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Guest

• I recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. And I have always recognized Jerusalem as the capital of the independent, fully sovereign Palestinian state that we all want to emerge from negotiations toward a true two-state solution.

  

  Eric Garcetti
  • Solution
  • Recognize
  • Jerusalem

• We've seen the reality of Saddam's regime: his thugs prepared to kill their own people, the parading of prisoners of war and now the release of those pictures of executed British soldiers.

  

  Tony Blair
  • People
  • War
  • Reality

• Be loyal to your boss, your company, your co-workers. Someone is always listening.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Listening
  • Company
  • Boss

• To allow the market mechanism to be the sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment....would result in the demolition of society.

  

  Karl Polanyi
  • Society
  • Environment
  • Results

• Humans are social beings, and we are happier, and better, when connected to others.

  

  Paul Bloom