Carl Andre Quotes

The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.

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• A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Life
  • Want
  • Losing

• When I lived in Greece and off the coast of Italy, I enjoyed a branzino dish so much that I created my own version.

  

  Camila Alves
  • My Own
  • Italy
  • Greece

• I write in a small office at home.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Home
  • Small
  • Office

• For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Character
  • Thing
  • Having

• I think I am very hands-on mother. I am very strict, and my daughter keeps telling me, 'You are too hard on me,' and I keep telling her, 'I have to be hard because if I am not hard, you will not learn the lessons that I want you to learn.' I think it is really important to be that way.

  

  Kajol
  • Important
  • Mother
  • Way

• I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Problem
  • Yourself
  • Calm

• Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Man
  • Marriage
  • Woman

• The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • World
  • American
  • Same

• I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Think
  • Know

• If you don't want to get bored with what you're doing, you have to change.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Want
  • Change
  • Doing

• The fight against terror cannot stop as long as terrorism itself is not stopped, but the path of war must change: it must lead directly to terrorists and not be waged on the backs of three million Palestinians.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Long
  • War
  • Change

• I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Help
  • Feeling
  • Best

• I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Want
  • Success
  • Personal

• I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Cool

• For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.

  

  Karen O
  • Space
  • Rest
  • California

• I knew that the artists that I loved the most had something about them that was very unfiltered and very rough.

  

  Gallant
  • Something
  • Loved
  • Very

• Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Trust
  • Strange
  • Grow

• My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Life
  • Father
  • Man

• These were the Sophists, and their interest was in teaching the use of argumentative skills of the sort previous philosophers had exhibited, but as a means of attaining worldly success, for instance in politics. Unfortunately, they gained a reputation for being rather cynical and unscrupulous in their argumentative standards: any old argument would do as long as it persuaded one’s listener, even if it was totally fallacious; what mattered was winning the debate, not arriving at the truth, and the line between logic and rhetoric was thus blurred.

  

  Edward Feser
  • Truth
  • Politics
  • Interest

• I was looking for something to love, for I was in love with loving, and I hated security and a smooth way, free from snares.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Free
  • Way
  • Security

• It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and the desire to gain the benefits that come from cheating - on our taxes or on the football field.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • People
  • Good
  • Desire

• There are all sorts of ways a leader can foster interactive teaching and learning if he starts thinking, Where do I socially architect myself?

  

  Noel Tichy
  • Thinking
  • Learning
  • Leader

• The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Way
  • Wood
  • Cut