Abraham Myerson Quotes

The prime result of the growth of intelligence and of experience is to make one, as it were, objective toward oneself, to view one's own thoughts, beliefs and emotions with some humor and skepticism.

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• I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Employ
  • Nobel

• I've never looked at my Facebook page or my website, because I'm fundamentally an amateur.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Because
  • Page
  • Website

• I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • Never
  • Working
  • Class

• Would I describe myself as new Labour? I'm Labour, organised Labour. I think labels have a limited use and that's where you really get into boy stuff sometimes, just sticking on labels.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Sometimes

• My journey has been that of a character actor.

  

  Harry Carey, Jr.
  • Character
  • Journey
  • Actor

• If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• I understand that a lot of girls feel encouraged by what I have been able to do, but I've never felt like I'm a role model. I'm not concerned with building a great legacy or anything because I'll be dead so it won't matter.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Great
  • Model
  • Building

• I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Day
  • Teacher
  • Tree

• My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• I don't know, I like to go on really different types of dates. Going someplace new or some new part of the city, something that's not your average thing. Something where you just go have an adventure together.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Different
  • Together
  • City

• I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Trust

• Before I had a record deal, I was living in New York and playing anywhere I could, from somebody's house to an open mic to coffeeshops.

  

  Langhorne Slim
  • House
  • New York
  • Living

• In most cases, my visits to the West are for promotion of human values and religious harmony.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Religious
  • Values
  • Harmony

• To be honest, I owned one suit before I filmed 'Mad Men' - the one suit that you have to have as an adult. Outside of that, I never really felt comfortable in a suit.

  

  Aaron Staton
  • Men
  • Never
  • Mad

• Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Time
  • Broken
  • Places

• I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Life
  • Paris
  • Bitter

• I don't read as much as people may expect. In fact, sometimes I feel that I should probably read more, but then I do believe that one of the big problems of our times is that there's too much reading and not enough thinking.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Writing
  • Things
  • Photography

• I love the Ronettes, the 'do-run-run-run' pop stuff. I love the lyrics, having 'blue, blue blue' being repetitive.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Being
  • Stuff
  • Lyrics

• I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • World
  • Work
  • Believe

• Measure your growth in grace by your sensitiveness to sin.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Growth
  • Sin
  • Grace

• Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they are specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as everybody else, and their unusually high intelligence only makes their prejudices all the more dangerous.

  

  Hans Eysenck
  • Dangerous
  • Intelligence
  • Scientists

• The prime result of the growth of intelligence and of experience is to make one, as it were, objective toward oneself, to view one's own thoughts, beliefs and emotions with some humor and skepticism.

  

  Abraham Myerson
  • Growth
  • Intelligence
  • Result