William James Quotes

We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander's eyes the success or failure of our conduct.

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• I've had laser eye surgery and I don't wear glasses any more, so people just go, 'You're not Damien Hirst.' I don't get recognized on the street.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Eye
  • Glasses

• Google's founders have had a good eye for imagining what technologies will be significant in the near future. No one asked Google to develop self-driving cars, but it helped them with street views for Google Maps.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Good
  • Future
  • Eye

• As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Eye
  • Should
  • Contemporary

• It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Me
  • Internet
  • Dangerous

• I've been in the public eye now for about 15 or 16 years, and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there. But I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Never
  • Eye
  • Fame

• Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Eye
  • Friendship
  • Texas

• Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Me
  • Eye
  • Human

• I use the 'Too Faced Chocolate Bar Eye Shadow' Palette every day. I've tried a bunch of stuff, but this is my favorite. For eyebrows, I use the 'Anastasia Beverly Hills Dipbrow' Pomade in Dark Brown, and for mascara, I don't use anything else but 'Urban Decay Perversion' Mascara.

  

  Yuna
  • Day
  • Dark
  • Eye

• Being in the public eye, there will always be negatives. Those dark aspects will always be there and, so too, those things that will try and tear you down, but I have made the choice not to engage with them. I'm not going to let them affect me or destroy me.

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • Dark
  • Eye
  • Choice

• You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Eye
  • Actor
  • Look

• I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research university.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Teaching
  • Research
  • Tenure

• Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
  • Guy
  • Respect

• If you have your eye set on somebody, don't beat around the bush.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • You
  • Eye
  • Beat

• You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision.

  

  Veronica Lake
  • Vision
  • Eye
  • Talent

• Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Brain
  • Eye
  • Everything

• I've never been a big fan of making telepathy to the audience. That would be too much a wink in the eye. That would make people around me fools, right?

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Me
  • Eye

• I'm not an easy customer. My attention to detail could probably drive you mad. My eye still always goes toward the single flaw.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Attention
  • Single
  • Eye

• If the first bite is with the eye and the second with the nose, some people will never take that third, actual bite if the food in question smells too fishy, fermented or cheesy.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • Food
  • Question

• In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Knowledge
  • Education
  • Eyes

• Behind the corpse in the reservoir, behind the ghost on the links, Behind the lady who dances and the man who madly drinks, Under the look of fatigue, the attack of migraine and the sigh There is always another story, there is more than meets the eye.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Men
  • Eye
  • Looks

• There are sexual things that I do that aren’t for a man. I feel empowered sometimes by being sexy and being comfortable enough to be sexy on camera — a lot of woman [sic] struggle with that. But, there are some days that I don’t want anyone to see me. I’m just a regular girl. Some days, I’m super-strong; some days, I’m super-insecure. But, I don’t really identify with any particular label. I just speak my truth, and if people like it, they like it, and if they bash it, they bash it.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
  • Men
  • Truth

• You want to try to keep your sleep and meal patterns attached to the time zone that you're in. It's important so you don't feel disoriented. If we take a red-eye and land in Singapore at 8 A.M., we're not going to bed. Force yourself to stay awake, have breakfast, power through the day.

  

  Harley Pasternak
  • Sleep
  • Meal patterns

• Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Family
  • Reality
  • Difference

• We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander's eyes the success or failure of our conduct.

  

  William James
  • Eye
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