Alfred Binet Quotes

We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism; we will try to demonstrate that it is founded on nothing.

Alfred Binet

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• If Wanda can control more than 20 per cent of the world's three most important film markets - the United States, Europe and China - then it will have an empire with great voice in the industry.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • World
  • Great
  • Important

• The financial crisis that began in the summer of 2007 was an extraordinarily complex event with multiple causes.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Financial
  • Summer
  • Causes

• The relationship with a producer and an artist is really special. It's got to be love and respect, amazing mutual respect for each other, because that's what makes a good record.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Good
  • Respect
  • Relationship

• Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Men
  • Business
  • High

• A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

  

  Ernest Hemingway

• It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Free
  • Conscience
  • Believes

• I guess the disc jockey thought I was trying to sing or something so ... they had fun with it. But the reality was that it was something, there was a concept behind it.

  

  William Shatner
  • Trying
  • Fun
  • Reality

• Most of my guitars have been instruments that look cool. I'm not picky. I never think, 'Oh, this neck isn't made of ebony,' or, 'These strings don't feel correct.' It doesn't matter too much.

  

  James Hetfield Metallica
  • Instruments
  • Guitars
  • Feel Correct

• You are not Dostoevsky,' said the woman... 'You never can tell...' he answered. 'Dostoevsky is dead,' the woman said, a bit uncertainly. 'I protest!' he said with heat, 'Dostoevsky is immortal!

  

  Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Woman
  • Protest
  • Answered

• When I gave signs of protest she nearly reminded me of the money she was giving me. She stopped in time, but not so that I didn't understand: it was like when someone is about to hit you and then doesn't.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Understand
  • Hit
  • Protest

• I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Music
  • America
  • Protest

• My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.

  

  Harry Mathews
  • Poetry
  • Project

• We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism; we will try to demonstrate that it is founded on nothing.

  

  Alfred Binet
  • Protest
  • Pessimism
  • Founded