Paul Gauguin Quotes

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

Paul Gauguin

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• Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Nature
  • Law
  • First

• We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Think
  • Want
  • Cloud

• In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?

  

  Carl Rogers
  • May
  • Change
  • Relationship

• There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Single
  • Moments

• Memory, then, is a necessary part of the logical faculty. … The proposition A = A must have a psychological relation to time, otherwise it would be A

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Time

• In chess, we say that the player with the initiative is obliged to attack, otherwise the initiative will be lost and the counterattack will likely be decisive.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Lost
  • Player
  • Chess

• Niggas die everyday, all ova bullshitDope money, dice games, ordinary hood shitCould this be cuz of Hip Hop musicOr did the ones with the good sense not use it?

  

  T.I.
  • Good
  • Money
  • Die

• I've just done a film in the United States. It's a thriller called 'A Crime', with Harvey Keitel, we play against each other, and it's so great to play in another language. But I'm definitely not American.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • Great
  • Done
  • American

• That's what my dad always said. 'If you're very lucky, it'll work out.' I love what it is I do, and I realize how blessed I am. So now it's just about doing the work as good as possible and enjoying the ride.

  

  Brian Dietzen
  • Good
  • Work
  • Dad

• One of the magical things about these anthropomorphic animal movies is that we can take things that are so common in our own world that we deal with, like the DMV, or moving to a new city, or our family, and show you a mirror image of those things, reflected in a whole new way. That's why animals are great.

  

  Byron Howard
  • World
  • Great
  • Family

• Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor.

  

  Kurt Loder
  • Job
  • Beautiful
  • Hand

• People on the street comment on how handsome I am. You know, people stop and say how angular my face is.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • People
  • Stop

• I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there actually are in heaven and earth.

  

  Nelson Goodman
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• These days, there are times when my academic thinking intervenes in my writing, but it's usually while I'm developing a project and not while I'm writing it.

  

  Alexandra Kleeman
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time.

  

  Brian De Palma
  • Time
  • Dream
  • Girl

• At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia.

  

  Philip Zimbardo
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• Medical professionals are as skilled and as dedicated as any, but they operate within a fragmented system that has not progressed as far as we have in aviation.

  

  Chesley Sullenberger

• What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data detective.

  

  David McCandless

• You have a very poor neighborhood. You have students that are required to go to school. They have no money, no habit of work. What if you paid them in the afternoon to work in the clerical office or as the assistant librarian?

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • Work
  • School
  • Money

• Did you just call me old? I really prefer the word 'experienced'.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Word
  • Experienced

• Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

  

  Socrates
  • God
  • Best
  • Knows

• I would never complain about the position I'm in or the attention I get. At the end of the day, I'm very lucky to have what I have and do what I do, but I don't see myself as any different from anyone else who works hard and is a dad and a husband.

  

  David Beckham
  • Different
  • Attention
  • Dad

• Man has tried his suicide with bigotry and hate, but in the end he'll kill himself with nothing but his waste.

  

  Roger McGuinn The Byrds
  • Hate
  • Suicide
  • Bigotry

• We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Stupid
  • Knows
  • Silly