Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes

Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas

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• I know a lot of people who use the Internet really wisely. It enriches their lives in some way.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Know
  • Internet

• When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.

  

  Gary Dourdan
  • Books
  • Alien
  • Resurrection

• I wanted to just come out and continue to improve my game, continue to improve my mental capacity to play well in tournaments. I've had a slow year compared to last year, but I've been pleased because I felt like I was getting better.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Game
  • Play
  • Getting Better

• Everyone is always working on their body and trying to make it the best that they possibly can. That's what I do every single day, mostly for performance, but also just for me.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Trying
  • Day
  • Single

• Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Thoughts
  • New

• How can a child adhere to school and the notion of secularism when they see their mother rejected from a school outing, stigmatized, left on the sidelines, just because she has a scarf on her head?

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • School
  • She
  • Mother

• The less you do to beautiful food, the better it's going to taste. You don't need to mess with it all the time.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Food

• The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that you can put on a shelf. And the idea of music, for me, is always about both the communication and the sharing of content. And so the interactive part is missing.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Idea
  • Communication

• I think that what made people accept Starbuck as a woman was that she was just such an interesting character. I think that once people put their guard down and their preconceived notions of what the show is supposed to be and just allowed it to really be good science fiction.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Good
  • She

• When my daughter Zulekha was born, I was at the pinnacle of my working life as a model, and I pulled myself in two trying to cope with being both a mother and a career girl.

  

  Iman
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Mother

• People just want to have access to all of the world's music.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• I'd like to make music for as long as I can; it feels like something I need to do.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Music
  • Long
  • Need

• Tell me, George, if you had it to do all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Fall

• In any given instance, behavior can be predicted best by considering both self-efficacy and outcome beliefs . . . different patterns of self-efficacy and outcome beliefs are likely to produce different psychological effects.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Different
  • Behavior
  • Beliefs

• Well, part of it is a longstanding belief - it's been in our education establishment at least since the 1930s - that somehow children should be allowed to discover knowledge for themselves, that they should construct their own knowledge. This has surfaced most recently in connection with mathematics instruction, where the idea is that they need to discover how to add for themselves. Rather than being taught how to add, they should construct this knowledge on their own.

  

  Lynne Cheney
  • Children
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• I'm motivated by solving new and challenging problems, especially ones that people say can't or shouldn't be tackled.

  

  Ryan Holmes
  • Problem
  • Challenges
  • Motivated

• After talking to my family and friends and after a lot of thought, I have decided to retire from international rugby with immediate effect

  

  Martin Johnson Boys Like Girls
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Rugby

• I'm going to play with physics, whenever I want to, without worrying about any importance whatsoever.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Play
  • Worry
  • Importance

• T.S. Eliot's influence was enormous on my generation. Much more than Ezra Pound. I actually had to put T.S. Eliot books out of the house because my poetry was so influenced. Everything I wrote sounded like Eliot.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • House
  • Poetry
  • Books

• Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Perfection
  • Faults
  • Rivalry