Irving Babbitt Quotes

Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.

Irving Babbitt

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• I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.

  

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• My main thing is I'm going to compete on every play, try to be focused on both ends of the court. That said, I'll always bring my excitement, my swag, to the game.

  

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• Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.

  

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• I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.

  

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• I never try to follow a trend or fashion.

  

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• If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.

  

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• Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.

  

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• Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

  

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• None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

  

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• I played quarterback, and it was a leadership position, and even though I'm doing a solo thing now, a lot of my success is a part of assembling this team of people who are really, really talented, and their position doesn't put them out front the way mine does, but it's still a team effort.

  

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• Fortunately, the music from the first record really connected with people, and I was really proud of that.

  

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• I'm still having fun, and I'm doing something and I'm seeing the world! I wasn't massively ambitious, but I did always want to do the best I could do.

  

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• I find vacuuming very therapeutic, but I hate ironing. I usually have no shirt on while ironing, because I'm ironing it, and I end up burning my chest.

  

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• I arrive in New York on October 15, 1975. On my own, by the way.

  

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• My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.

  

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• A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.

  

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• Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.

  

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• The main thing in making your own music is that it's an expression of someone's personality and being. That's what people want to hear, and you can't really teach that - that's just something that comes out. Teaching just hones that.

  

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• As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.

  

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• I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world in which I spent my life.

  

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• Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Style
  • Something
  • Excellence