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

• 'Telling a story is how we digest what happens to us,' Mr Whittier says, 'It's how we digest our lives. Our experiences.'

  

  Chuck Palahniuk

• 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 can really stir up a conversation. Every time I go to a meeting or a casting, I try to make it as light and funny as I can. I'm always making really awkward jokes. You have to make life fun and not take it too seriously. I may look like I'm very serious and into my work, but if you knew me, I'm just a jokester.

  

  Charlotte McKinney
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

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

  

  John Mellencamp

• Some have been ensnared in the net of excessive debt. The net of interest holds them fast, requiring them to sell their time and energies to meet the demands of creditors. They surrender their freedom, becoming slaves to their own extravagance.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Time
  • Freedom

• Don't let others put thoughts into your mind that takes away your self-confidence.

  

  Katori Hall
  • Mind
  • Confidence
  • Thoughts

• As is gloriously sung in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "H.M.S. Pinafore," in the words of W. S. Gilbert: "Things are seldom as they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream."

  

  W. S. Gilbert
  • Words

• I'm constantly thinking about what I'll do next. I never count on music being a career of longevity. I mean, longevity is key, and I hope that it lasts, but you just don't know, because it's not in your hands, you don't make the decision.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Hope

• Pure awareness transcends thinking. It allows you to step outside the chattering negative self-talk and your reactive impulses and emotions. It allows you to look at the world once again with open eyes. And when you do so, a sense of wonder and quiet contentment begins to reappear in your life.

  

  Mark Williams
  • Life
  • World
  • Thinking

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

  

  Ernest Dimnet
  • Thinking
  • Education
  • Habit