Socrates Quotes

To harm another is to harm oneself.

Socrates

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• Oneself

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• My family are the epicenter of all my decisions.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Family
  • Decisions

• Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.

  

  Laraine Day
  • Me
  • Baseball
  • Tears

• There's nothing that compares with the time spent all by myself on a creation that is all my own. I still think of my solo work as my 'home planet' in comics, though I've learned to listen much more to editors and trusted friends for feedback.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Time
  • Work
  • Home

• I wrote 'Thelma & Louise' in 1988, and we shot it in 1990. Everyone kept saying, 'This is so groundbreaking... this is going to change the landscape,' but I don't see that result at all. When we saw some female studio executives, we were hopeful that more women would be hired as directors, but that didn't really seem to happen.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Women
  • Change
  • Saying

• Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.

  

  Ovid
  • High
  • Lovers
  • Smiles

• I'm almost tempted, when I'm playing a real person, not to meet them. Afterwards, maybe. But, the job is the same. You still have to show up on screen and be alive and real and all that stuff.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Up
  • Real
  • Job

• Almost every evening in their common early-Cubist years, in Paris, either I went to Braque's studio or Braque came to mine. Each of us had to see what the other had done during the day. We criticized each other's paintings. A canvas wasn't finished unless both of us felt it was. a remark of Picasso to Françoise Gilot, December 1908

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Done
  • Paris
  • Canvas

• Often what is deeply offensive to Chinese-Americans that they are really well-represented in medicine, and yet on all these doctors' shows you hardly see any Chinese-American faces.

  

  Iris Chang
  • American
  • Chinese
  • Medicine

• When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero in every sketch.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Comedy
  • Pregnant
  • Sombrero

• Ask Elizabeth is a community of voices, it's not me standing on a podium telling people how to run their lives, it's girls helping each other sharing their wisdom and advice and I create a space for them to do it.

  

  Elizabeth Berkley
  • People
  • Community
  • Space

• As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and Laws, let every American pledge his life, his property, and his sacred honor;-let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Life
  • Declaration of Independence
  • Constitution And Laws

• A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.

  

  Plato
  • Laughter
  • Reaction
  • Excess

• One should always be happy, irrespective of what you achieve in a match or in life. That's how I live my life.

  

  Virender Sehwag
  • Should
  • Achieve

• We must remember that we do not observe nature as it actually exists, but nature exposed to our methods of perception. The theories determine what we can or cannot observe...Reality is an illusion, albeit a persistent one.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Nature
  • Exists
  • Actually

• One doesn’t just chuck away the story of one’s life, however much one wishes it had read differently.

  

  Eloise Jarvis McGraw
  • Life
  • Story
  • Wishes

• We usually evaluate creative process in terms of how much feeling or thinking was behind the work or how well the work was done. Isn't there any other way of appreciating the process? What if the standard of excellence was how fully present the artist was during the process?

  

  Kazuaki Tanahashi
  • Thinking
  • Artist
  • Appreciation

• To harm another is to harm oneself.

  

  Socrates
  • Another
  • Harm
  • Oneself