Nathaniel Branden Quotes

Pride is the emotional reward of achievement. It is not a vice to be overcome but a virtue to be attained.

Nathaniel Branden

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• Pride
• Achievement

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• I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.

  

  Frances Fisher
  • Fall
  • Hunting
  • Deer

• I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Perfect
  • Model
  • Role

• To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • World
  • Nice
  • Myself

• It takes a lot of help - nature, friends, family, craftsmen - for me to make what I make.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Help

• I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.

  

  Katharine Cornell
  • Amazing
  • Woman
  • Performances

• A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Life
  • Important
  • May

• What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Love
  • Characters
  • Films

• I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Heart
  • Movement
  • Come

• I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Children
  • Alive
  • Complain

• I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Life
  • Professional
  • My Life

• After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Lost
  • Alone
  • Hurt

• I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Think
  • Responsibility

• I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Danger
  • Terror
  • Effect

• I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.

  

  Daddy Yankee
  • Record
  • Very
  • Catchy

• I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they're friends or girlfriends or whatever.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Friends
  • Think
  • Like

• No man fails who does his best.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Best
  • Fails

• Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Day
  • Start
  • Early

• To create a work of art is to create the world.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • World
  • Work
  • Art

• One of the things people don't really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they're celebrations of pride in a lifestyle.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Country
  • Pride

• Everyone thinks I'm ethereal. But I'm not like that, you know. I'm not ethereal. Well, I might have a little bit of that quality to me, that 'old soul' thing, but I'm not ethereal.

  

  Saoirse Ronan
  • Thinking
  • Soul
  • Quality

• The fact that my environment influences my life so much - and that my environment is in my control - gives me a great sense of empowerment over my health and my life.

  

  Anne Wojcicki
  • Life
  • Great
  • Control

• What I was told by my parents was that, you know, take this inhibition out whether you're a girl or a boy. Basically, pursue your dream, and as long as you're a capable and hardworking human being, you will be able to follow and fulfill your dream.

  

  Chanda Kochhar
  • Long
  • Dream
  • Parents

• I love working with a set designer because, in many respects, you meet the set designer before you meet the actors. So it's a chance for me as a director to figure out what I'm thinking and to explore how the space is going to actually be activated.

  

  George C. Wolfe
  • Thinking
  • Space
  • Explore

• Pride is the emotional reward of achievement. It is not a vice to be overcome but a virtue to be attained.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Emotional
  • Pride
  • Achievement