C.P. Cavafy Quotes

If you are one of the truly elect, be careful how you attain your eminence.

C.P. Cavafy

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• I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Time
  • Years
  • Be Careful

• Our communications reflect in our countenance. Therefore, we must be careful not only what we communicate, but also how we do so. Souls can be strengthened or shattered by the message and the manner in which we communicate.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Message
  • Reflect
  • Be Careful

• I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Family
  • Rich
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• The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Believe
  • Job
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• Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Long
  • Red
  • Ignorance

• We just have to be careful of our actions as world citizens.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Actions
  • Citizens
  • Be Careful

• Everybody, I think, that was in 'Harry Potter' was certainly introduced to an enormous lot of young people.

  

  John Hurt
  • People

• To learn your artistry and to be able to perfect that, is overwhelming. Especially when you are exuding love. The human emotion is a very delicate thing, so you have to be careful about how you present it because it can be kind of scary, or too overwhelming if you're not careful. So I try to just keep it love.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Perfect
  • Human
  • Emotion

• I'm careful what I put out there into the universe, musically. I don't take it lightly.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Universe
  • Careful

• After man knows the truth, he cannot be too careful of his words.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Truth
  • Words
  • Knows

• Careful, love. Prices aren't the only things I can cut in half!

  

  An Na
  • Cutting
  • I Can
  • Half

• I think Dan [Rather] is transparently liberal. Now he may not like to hear me say that. I always agree with him, too. But I think he should be more careful.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Thinking
  • May
  • Should

• When you get older you have to be careful about always saying, "Things aren't as good as they used to be." But it's hard not to.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Good
  • Age
  • Used

• Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power. The thing itself cannot touch you. But if you allow your fear to seep into your mind and overtake your thoughts, it will rob you of your life.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Power

• I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Life
  • Men
  • Careful

• O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.

  

  Anne Boleyn
  • Death
  • Rest
  • Rock

• There are scenes that were right on the edge, but I always try to err on non-indulgence. It's something that I'm very careful about, that I'm just leaning too hard into something.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Trying
  • Scene
  • Careful

• There should be pluralism - the concept of many religions, many truths. But we must also be careful not to become nihilistic.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Should
  • Be Careful
  • Pluralism

• How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Knows
  • Self

• I do love the clothes on 'Mad Men' because my character has been so elegant and I would never have had access to these clothes. I think Janie Bryant is a costume designing genius. They'll call and tell me, 'It will only take an hour,' and I'm like, 'I will try on the whole truck!'

  

  Cara Buono
  • Character
  • Like
  • Genius

• When you become a mother, it's your mission in life to protect your child. I therefore can't imagine what a hell it must be crossing the sea with a crying child on your lap without any certainty of making it to the other side alive.

  

  Bianca Balti
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Sea

• Listening to the type of music I grew up with, like King Sunny Ade, Fela Kuti and experiencing different things and conditions and hardship, as well as the good times in Nigeria, has definitely carved me into who I am.

  

  Nneka
  • Different
  • Listening
  • Grew

• Mangroves, salt marshes and sea grass lock away carbon at up to five times the rate of tropical forests.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Up
  • Sea
  • Grass

• If you are one of the truly elect, be careful how you attain your eminence.

  

  C.P. Cavafy
  • Careful
  • Be Careful
  • Eminence