Abdullah ibn Mubarak Quotes

I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge.

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• I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Learning
  • Challenge
  • Luck

• It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • You
  • Taken
  • Care

• My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.

  

  B. B. King
  • Good
  • Trying
  • She

• China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.

  

  Gary Locke
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Trying
  • Think
  • Actor

• I don't think that technology is going to allow for greater subjugation of people. I think it's gonna give them more freedom.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Technology

• A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Grandpa on. But novelists, damn us, still need true natures - so we can give them to our protagonists. And so readers can vaguely predict how they'll behave when we trap them in 'situations' that they can't IM their way out of.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • True
  • Happy
  • Nature

• Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person's thoughts.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Purpose
  • Enjoy
  • Pleasure

• You actually can’t understand American history without understanding slavery.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • American
  • History
  • Understanding

• And I sing and sing of awful thingsThe pleasure that my sadness brings.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes

• I get more choices of things, projects, which is a blessing and a curse. I can only do one at a time. Sometimes you don't know which way to go.

  

  Benicio Del Toro
  • Time
  • Choices

• People are hurting out there, perhaps they are ready to start a conversation about whether an AR-15 belongs in the hands of a citizen, whether a citizen should be able 6,000 rounds on the internet.

  

  Brian Williams
  • People

• One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it doesn't matter what the belief systems of your parents might have been: If you perform the same experiment that someone else did, at a different time and place, you'll get the same result.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Time
  • Different
  • Parents

• There are so many times that, as a woman in the music industry, you're asked questions no male musician would ever be asked.

  

  Corin Tucker
  • Music

• To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Problem
  • Sides
  • Solution

• I think God surrounds us, in all different manifestations of the energy.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • God
  • Different
  • Thinking

• For the company of the great is good company as Shakespeare understood it, as Plutarch understood it. The past remains the source from which example and precept can still be drawn.

  

  C. V. Wedgwood
  • Good
  • Great
  • Past

• If this was the last day of your life, would you spend it the way you're spending today?

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Today
  • Spend

• Stop competing on price; compete on value. Deliver total consumer solutions, rather than just your piece of the solution.

  

  Faith Popcorn
  • Stop
  • Value
  • Pieces

• The best talk is artless, the talk of people trying to reassure or comfort themselves, women in the sun, grouped around baby carriages, talking about their weeks in the hospital or the way meat has gone up, or men in saloons, talking to combat the loneliness everyone feels.

  

  Joseph Mitchell
  • Feels
  • Talking
  • Loneliness

• Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.

  

  E. B. White
  • Grandma

• The first book I bought with my own money as a teenager was Martin Amis's 'Money.' You know that thing when you read a book and you think, 'I'm going to have to read every word ever written by this man.'

  

  John Niven
  • Money
  • Book
  • Teenager

• To young people born under the weird planet of the SAT, intelligence was equated with agility, with raw acuity. It produced a certain sort of person of which I was a typical specimen: the mental contortionist, able to rise to almost every challenge placed before him, except the challenge of real self-knowledge.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Real
  • Knowledge

• I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge.

  

  Abdullah ibn Mubarak
  • Knowledge
  • Learning
  • Manners