George Mikes Quotes

You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.

George Mikes

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• I had to work with a psychiatrist.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Work
  • Had
  • Psychiatrist

• Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Children
  • Business
  • Change

• There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Time
  • Talent
  • Knowing

• 'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?

  

  Mara Wilson
  • People
  • Movie
  • Fun

• I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.

  

  Dana Hussein
  • Help
  • Me
  • Concentrate

• I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.

  

  Jack Gilbert
  • Life
  • Think
  • Successful

• I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Father

• Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Community
  • Value
  • Moment

• In a mature democracy, what is legal is decided by parliament... Our process is legitimised by parliament and by the ballot box.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Democracy
  • Process
  • Legal

• If I made a mistake on a piece of content, I'm going to learn from it.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Mistake
  • Learn
  • Content

• It was always easy for me. I was born very rich and lucky.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Easy
  • Rich
  • Lucky

• When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Age
  • Control
  • Emotions

• I don't have to show that I am working very hard.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Show
  • Working Hard

• Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Business
  • Bad
  • Die

• It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Truth
  • War
  • Truth Is

• It is imperative that we should not pare down the meaning of a dream to fit some narrow doctrine. … No language exists that cannot be misused. It is hard to realize how badly we are fooled by the abuse of ideas, it even seems as if the unconscious had a way of strangling the physician in the coils of his own theory.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Dream
  • Abuse

• I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Freedom
  • Responsibility
  • Hero

• Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don’t understand this.

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • People

• Luke, I don't want to discourage your curiosity, but I have to remind you, if something goes wrong, this is an exceptionally embarassing way to die." Mara

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Want
  • Way
  • Die

• In expressing so completely his own type, Mr. Yeats presents us with the case for integrity. If we can express eventually our own scholastic mentality in verse, I believe that our art will lead us not towards, but away from, English art.

  

  Austin Clarke
  • Believe
  • Art
  • English

• If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

  

  Francis Parker Yockey

• O magnet-South! O glistening perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! Good and evil! O all dear to me!

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Good
  • Love
  • Evil

• You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.

  

  George Mikes
  • People
  • Dog
  • Humans