Nicholas Lea (Nicholas Christopher Herbert) Quotes

I think everyone has some fascination with what's outside our existence. It's a constant journey to find the truth. Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/nicholas-lea-quotes

Nicholas Lea

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• Too many executives I've met over the years have the mentality of a bodybuilder; they've come to accept the idea that growth is synonymous with success.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Success
  • Growth
  • Years

• The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Happiness
  • Without
  • Admire

• All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Political
  • Me
  • Doing

• Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.

  

  Otto Rank
  • Give
  • Birth
  • Shalt

• I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Up
  • Great
  • School

• I can't cook to save my life.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Save

• Madeleine Albright introduced herself to me. I talked to Henry Kissinger and Barbara Walters. And I asked Peter Jennings to write a note of encouragement to my son, Logan, a news anchor at the ABC affiliate in Palm Springs.

  

  Edd Byrnes
  • Son
  • Write
  • Encouragement

• I'm shocked at being recognized.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Being
  • Recognized
  • Shocked

• In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Up
  • Great
  • America

• I contend, most seriously, that there is a real need for a good, thick, complete-as-possible dictionary of 'What People Used to Call Things.'

  

  Gary Jennings
  • People
  • Good
  • Real

• They can hop on a line and really dice it up out there.

  

  Adam Petty
  • Up
  • Really
  • Line

• Everything I do is a reflection of the duality within me. Musically, I really love things that are very synthetic and unnatural. And I also like the organic and human... the intrinsic, I guess.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Things
  • Human
  • Reflection

• I read so many things because a colleague or a friend will post something, and I'll be able to learn a tremendous amount only because they drew attention to it. So I try to do that for others, and that's the great thing about social media. It's not always a narcissistic cesspool or waste of time.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Time
  • Great
  • Attention

• There is a figure that is adored, but I'd question very strongly that it's me.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Question
  • Figure
  • Strongly

• I love the Broadway audiences, who relish live drama and don't hesitate to display their enthusiasm.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Live
  • Drama
  • Enthusiasm

• My father always had people around the house who were famous psychics.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Father
  • House

• I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Good
  • Architecture

• When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Truth
  • Party
  • Powerful

• After all, if you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you also have to believe that no one was ever improved by a book (or a play or a movie). You have to believe, in other words, that all art is morally trivial and that, consequently, all education is morally irrelevant. No one, not even a university professor, really believes that.

  

  Irving Kristol
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Book

• The great thing about film is you start and finish. It's a journey that lasts so long, TV lasts a long time.

  

  Melissa George
  • Long
  • Things
  • Journey

• Directing is not on my agenda, but writing is. I want to write everything from action, superhero films to quiet dramas, smaller films.

  

  David Dastmalchian
  • Writing
  • Action
  • Superhero

• The best age is the age you are.

  

  Maggie Kuhn
  • Age

• It is as we respond to the understandings and feelings inherent in . . . art that we acquire much of our truth, much of our nobility and grace, and much of our pleasure.

  

  Ursula Goodenough
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Understanding

• I think everyone has some fascination with what's outside our existence. It's a constant journey to find the truth. Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/nicholas-lea-quotes

  

  Nicholas Lea
  • Truth
  • Journey
  • Find