Ethan Canin Quotes

Families tend to artificially divide the world, imbuing one member with all the attributes and another with all the faults. But it's never that way.

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• The best parenting advice I actually got was from Shane McMahon. He was great with me when Brie was pregnant and all that. He said, 'When you have that baby, make sure you take care of Brie first.'

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Great
  • Best
  • Baby

• More than 90% of Chinese believe themselves to be Han. Of course, such a vast population is derived from countless different races, but because China has enjoyed such a long and continuous history as a polity, there has been thousands of years of mixing, melding and assimilation.

  

  Martin Jacques
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Long

• Given a conjecture, the best thing is to prove it. The second best thing is to disprove it. The third best thing is to prove that it is not possible to disprove it, since it will tell you not to waste your time trying to disprove it. That's what Gödel did for the Continuum Hypothesis.

  

  Saharon Shelah
  • Time
  • Trying

• What we've said to the girls is: 'If you guys ever decide that you're going to get a tattoo, then mommy and me will get the exact same tattoo, in the same place.' And we'll go on YouTube and show it off as a family tattoo.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Family
  • Tattoo

• A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples - that is Brahms.

  

  Edvard Grieg
  • Greek
  • Clouds
  • Landscape

• We started off with a set of objectives for what we needed to communicate with the company's identity, created several proposals intended to meet those objectives, and picked the one that did the best job.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Job
  • Identity

• A group of psychologists say they have discovered twenty-three different body language indicators that show whether or not a person is lying. If you would like to see all twenty-three at the same time, they recommend taking a guided tour of the White House.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Time
  • Different
  • House

• It's better to be hanged for loyalty than be rewarded for betrayal.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Loyalty
  • Betrayal

• It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Love
  • Attention
  • Child

• I think the differences between men and women, it's kind of hard to define what those are and the challenges, what they are. I think there are challenging things for everybody.

  

  Nick Jonas Jonas Brothers
  • Women
  • Challenges
  • Differences

• Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Virtue
  • Envy
  • Generosity

• You market when you hire and when you fire. You market when you call tech support, and you market every time you send a memo.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Support
  • Fire
  • Marketing

• I'm not easily inhibited by the fact that I don't know something about a subject. It doesn't stop me from dabbling in it.

  

  Joshua Lederberg
  • Knows
  • Facts
  • Subjects

• I always love using the girls behind the blocks to create even more energy. It's so much fun and so much energy to be with these girls, I love training with them and it's just so much fun to race next to them. I try to use that as much as I can.

  

  Alyson Ackman
  • Energy
  • Training
  • Girls

• A lot of times, professional athletes say, 'I'm not a role model; I'm an athlete.' I don't mind being a role model because I know what I've done in order to make it to where I am right now. It's a lot of hard work; it's a tremendous amount of hard work. But in order to be make it to a certain level, everybody knows it's going to take time.

  

  Bobby Lashley
  • Hard Work
  • Level
  • Athletes

• When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional, loving, beautiful, wanted. And then when you are those things, the world tells you they are inferior: illogical, weak, vain, empty.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Weak
  • Supposed
  • Grow Up

• It's definitely not going to be a normal day. I'm not going to cry over a few lost sales.

  

  Karl Wolf
  • Lost
  • Sales
  • Cry

• Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Believe
  • Lucky
  • Possibility

• Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.

  

  William Penn
  • Men
  • Shows
  • Weakness

• Families tend to artificially divide the world, imbuing one member with all the attributes and another with all the faults. But it's never that way.

  

  Ethan Canin
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