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

• 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

• 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

• Eighty percent of our life is emotion, and only 20 percent is intellect. I am much more interested in how you feel than how you think. I can change how you think, but how you feel is something deeper and stronger, and it's something that's inside you.

  

  Frank Luntz
  • Life

• In the developing world, people often use quite basic technology. Many of the most imaginative schemes are using what we'd count as old tech.

  

  Charles Leadbeater
  • People
  • World
  • Technology

• I sit here for hours. It's like sitting amongst lighthouses, each lighthouse giving you a bearing on lost spaces of time...

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Time
  • Giving
  • Lost

• As technology evolves, it manipulates our culture, and there's a huge opportunity to push ourselves further. I think it actually makes ourselves maybe more human, or at least human in a different way, that we can connect together in amazingly different ways and powerful new ways.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Different
  • Together
  • Culture

• It's a Tenth Amendment issue. If you want Washington, if you want to implement their standards, that's your call... We certainly had higher standards than Common Core, so it was a very easy decision for Texans, myself and the legislature included, to basically say we still believe that Texans know how to best run Texas.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Believe
  • Education
  • Running

• But when a man’s religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual aside and argue the point with him.

  

  Moby
  • Thinking
  • Uncomfortable
  • Torment

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

  

  Ernest Dimnet
  • Thinking
  • Education
  • Habit