Ernest Dimnet Quotes

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

Ernest Dimnet

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• It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Friends

• Working with Angela Bassett is by far the best. I've watched and admired her for years. I'm very intrigued by her work. She's so cool. I still call her 'Mom' when I see her.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Work
  • She
  • Mom

• I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Good
  • God
  • Bad

• I think that we live in a highly specialized, technologically advanced society. Highly developed societies tend to have very remote understandings about what underlies our prosperity.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Live
  • Society
  • Prosperity

• Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Government
  • End
  • Principles

• I will run against anybody.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Will
  • Run
  • Against

• I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an actor, the more equipped you are to live in the moment. Just like the gifted musicians in my dad's quartet, it takes a courageous actor to be free.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Good
  • Music
  • Live

• For a woman, the typical danger emanating from the unconscious comes from above, from the 'spiritual' sphere personified by the animus, whereas for a man it comes from the chthonic realm of the 'world and woman,' i.e., the anima projected on to the world.

  

  Carl Jung
  • World
  • Spiritual

• Although Cronkite had once crash landed in a Dutch potato field under enemy fire, he chose instead to focus on celebrating the liberation of the Netherlands at the hands of the Free Dutch.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Free
  • Focus
  • Fire

• I'm a perfectionist, so my bossiness definitely comes out.

  

  Emma Watson

• I really believe that my family's infrequency of getting sick is due to our diet.

  

  Kristin Cavallari
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Sick

• The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.

  

  Bob Iger

• When I was diagnosed, I believed my illness would be my great, lifelong weakness. Bipolar disorder was to be my impenetrable prison, and I would be locked up with it in a castle Princess Toadstool style. Thinking there was no way out, I let it consume me.

  

  AJ Lee
  • Up
  • Great
  • Thinking

• It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.

  

  Lisa Gardner
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• I think I was raised by a really good mother.

  

  Dean Winters
  • Good
  • Mother

• I was born with Spina bifida. That's where you have a hole in your spine, and your nerve endings come out.

  

  John Mellencamp

• In Congress, I've advocated for an all-of-the-above energy policy that identifies and promotes alternative energy sources such as wind, solar, biomass and hydropower.

  

  Elise Stefanik
  • Energy
  • Wind

• I've never really understood the criticism that climbing is inherently selfish, since it could equally be argued about virtually any other hobby or sport. Is gardening selfish?

  

  Alex Honnold
  • Criticism
  • Selfish

• I have never savored life with such gusto as I do now.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Life
  • Never
  • Now

• When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Love
  • Question
  • Poverty

• All the wants which disturb human life, which make us uneasy to ourselves, quarrelsome with others, and unthankful to God, which weary us in vain labors and foolish anxieties, which carry us from project to project, from place to place in a poor pursuit of we don't know what, are the wants which neither God, nor nature, nor reason hath subjected us to, but are solely infused into us by pride, envy, ambition, and covetousness.

  

  William Law
  • Reason
  • Pride
  • Ambition

• Fortunately, the war has brought with it not alone a stark realization of what another war would mean to the world, but as well the creation of an international agency through which the nations of the world can, if they so desire, make peace a living reality.

  

  Cordell Hull
  • World
  • War
  • Reality

• Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

  

  Ernest Dimnet
  • Thinking
  • Education
  • Habit