Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes

Among giants, try and be a dwarf; among dwarfs, try and be a giant; but among equals, try and be an equal

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• France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Country
  • Latin
  • France

• I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • Time
  • Love
  • She

• I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Love
  • Think
  • Clothes

• I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • You
  • Nothing
  • Captain

• I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Up
  • Job
  • Want

• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Business
  • American

• To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • War
  • Death
  • Know

• When I started this I wanted to get back in the pool, I wanted to race and I wanted to go to the Olympics. I still want to do all of those things.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Want
  • Race
  • Pool

• I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Think
  • Opportunities
  • Actress

• I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction. I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It's a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I'm trying to do myself.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

  

  Quintilian
  • Mind
  • Effort
  • Teacher

• 'Love Story' I wrote on my bedroom floor in about 20 minutes.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Love
  • Story
  • Love Story

• I keep encouraging the pharmaceutical companies to put more money into R&D.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Money
  • More
  • Encouraging

• Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it's getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Country
  • Done

• As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person.

  

  Kim Novak
  • Bad
  • Confidence

• I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we'd consider today very great writers, may not necessarily have tested highly on IQ just because of their numerical skills, or maybe they may not be very good at memory, and are not particularly good at these kinds of tests.

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • Good
  • Great
  • May

• I've never wanted to be part of an inner circle of any scene. I've always been an outsider looking to question and subvert.

  

  David LaChapelle
  • Question

• Of course, you have always the goal for years to go there and to reach the top, but then if you are there, you actually don't know what to expect.

  

  Angelique Kerber

• To be a contrarian, you've got to be a contrarian against your own people.

  

  James Carville
  • People

• Risks I think are the thing that make life important and everything that you and I do is risk vs. benefit. Is there a risk to sending your kid out? Absolutely. Is there a benefit? It exceeds the risk.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • Life
  • Important
  • Risk

• I often think about starting a band again, doing my solo stuff and a band. I grew up in bands.

  

  James Arthur
  • Up
  • Band

• I'm an optimist. You can't be an entrepreneur if you're not essentially an optimist, so I'm an optimist by nature.

  

  John Sculley
  • Nature
  • Entrepreneur

• Often, some people dress something up to make it sound scientific, use scientific words, call themselves doctor something-or-other, and then you look them up, and they're trying to make it sound like something it's not. There's this entire field that's adding the word 'quantum' to everything. It doesn't even make sense in that context.

  

  Elise Andrew
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• Among giants, try and be a dwarf; among dwarfs, try and be a giant; but among equals, try and be an equal

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Trying
  • Equal
  • Giants