Alexander Nehamas Quotes

In contrast to the values of morality, which depend on and encourage our similarities to each other, values like friendship or beauty depend on and encourage our differences. Ultimately, friendship is essential to our fashioning ourselves in ways that don't simply repeat the fashions of our surroundings: it is a mechanism of individuality.

Alexander Nehamas

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• Values
• Individuality
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• Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.

  

  Igor Luksic
  • People
  • Said
  • Same

• I try to avoid saying 'fantastic' too often and 'obviously' is a dangerous word for all broadcasters.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Try
  • Word
  • Saying

• What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Up
  • Now
  • Bigger

• In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • You
  • Everything
  • Without

• The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.

  

  Adam Dell
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • True
  • Know
  • Brand

• I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Children
  • Light

• You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.

  

  Daisy Ashford
  • Idea
  • Wind
  • My Own

• The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Present
  • Influence
  • More

• For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Done
  • White
  • Election

• In the '90s, I wouldn't have been a supermodel.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Been
  • Supermodel

• One of the strengths of Adani is that, because we are controlling mines, ships, ports and logistics, we are the cheapest solution provider for end users.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • End
  • Solution
  • Ships

• Big stories need human stakes.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Human
  • Need
  • Big

• I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Work
  • Diet
  • Now And Then

• It's time for male leaders to not only ask for binders of qualified women, but to re-write the definition of 'qualified.' The best man for the job, may in fact, be a woman, whose biography is not traditional, but is rich with experiences and skills that are not necessarily learned either in school or on the job.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Time
  • Women
  • School

• I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Think
  • Stop
  • Play

• The gargantuan promiscuity of the Seventies gay male world was a pagan phenomenon, unequaled in scale since the Roman empire.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • World
  • Gay

• I had never really understood what an adventure life could be, if you followed your heart and did what you really wanted to do, which is what we must all do in the end.

  

  Sara Sheridan
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Adventure

• The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make to them; a man may live long, yet get little from life. Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will - Montaigne, Essays

  

  Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • Life
  • Men
  • Long

• The only thing I don't doubt is my doubt.

  

  Spalding Gray
  • Doubt

• I was put on a pony as a kid at some birthday party when you're all led around.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Party
  • Kid
  • Birthday

• I was left alone there in the company of the orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do not know you, preserved a silence which their individuality as living things made all the more striking, and warmed themselves in the heat of a glowing coal fire.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Fire
  • Silence
  • Individuality

• In contrast to the values of morality, which depend on and encourage our similarities to each other, values like friendship or beauty depend on and encourage our differences. Ultimately, friendship is essential to our fashioning ourselves in ways that don't simply repeat the fashions of our surroundings: it is a mechanism of individuality.

  

  Alexander Nehamas
  • Friendship
  • Values
  • Individuality