Michel Onfray Quotes

I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read wildly, and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.

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• It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Today
  • Education

• Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been, as a rule, bold, aggressive, and self-confident. They dared to step out from the crowd and act in an original way. They were not afraid to be generals.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • World
  • Great
  • Step

• I'm always happy and most at home on the stage. I love film and television, but I love live performance... your immediacy with the audience, it makes all the difference in the world.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • World
  • Live
  • Love

• Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.

  

  Jack Welch
  • World
  • Job
  • True

• I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • World
  • Play
  • Language

• What I say now is that the way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon. People pat me on the head, and I go to myself, oh, and aren't they going to be surprised.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • People
  • World
  • Myself

• Some of the best art in the world is collaborative, a mix of voices that are stronger together than separate. Take the Beatles, for example. Or every great movie ever made. We like to say they're the director's vision, but really, they're huge collaborations between directors, writers, actors, even producers.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • World
  • Great
  • Art

• The cause of suffering is that the unbounded Self is overshadowed by the world.

  

  Patanjali
  • World
  • Suffering
  • Self

• Two of my sons are themselves filmmakers, and we can't afford them nor they us. They work in the real world and earn money and are pretty good at it.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • World
  • Good
  • Work

• What I am very, very moved and struck by is that so many people in the world are often living a life that they hadn't planned for themselves. And they wake up one day and say, 'Hang on. Who am I? Is this really me? Is this what I really wanted?' And also, 'Can I change it? Have I got the courage to change it?'

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Not enough people in this world are happy.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • People
  • World
  • Happy

• We cannot escape the prospect of nuclear war unless we all commit to stopping the spread of nuclear weapons and pursuing a world without them.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • War

• Trump uses the phrase 'America First,' only dimly aware that he is repeating a phrase from the interwar years and indifferent to its historic resonances. But he compulsively echoes that period - another time when leaders described the world in apocalyptic terms.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • Time
  • World
  • America

• Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.

  

  Liberty Hyde Bailey
  • World
  • Knowledge

• In the harshness of the world of technology - in which feelings do not count anymore - the hope for a saving love grows, a love which would be given freely and generously.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • World
  • Hope
  • Technology

• I played college soccer before I was hurt, and just to be able to jump back into something that you could be so competitive at or you can achieve, to get to the Paralympics, that's the first really big achievement that you can have. It's the second biggest sporting event in the world. To be a part of it and to get a medal for that, it's unreal.

  

  Mark Zupan
  • World
  • College
  • Hurt

• At the end of the day, you have smart marks all over the world thinking that they know the outcome of a match.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Smart

• Be careful, then, and be gentle about death. For it is hard to die, it is difficult to go through the door, even when it opens.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Death
  • Die
  • Door

• It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Hope
  • Wish
  • Claimed

• I think about winning the Olympic gold medal a couple of times every day. Oh, it would be so nice to take one of those home.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Winning
  • Everyday
  • Medal

• I couldn't believe, I felt as if, like I said, I was going to drap deed y'knaw't a mean?

  

  Charlie Flynn
  • Drap

• I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read wildly, and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.

  

  Michel Onfray
  • World
  • Ideas
  • Philosophy