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

• It's very advantageous to be sensitive with your work - and, yet, being sensitive, in reality, when criticized, it can annihilate you. It can destroy you. And with the internet there sometimes is a lot of harm, which I find must be very difficult for youngsters coming on - it can be very harsh; the criticism. And, sometimes, it can be a little cruel - which makes it hard for young performers coming on.

  

  Michael Crawford
  • Sometimes
  • Difficult
  • Criticism

• Too much pessimism has led too many men into making serious mistakes. And perhaps part of our pessimism comes because we are too close to ourselves to see in proper perspective.

  

  Richard L. Evans
  • Men
  • Serious
  • Mistake

• I don't quite have the luxury of cherry-picking - I have to see what comes my way. But I have always been picky.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Always
  • See
  • Luxury

• London waited, waited in patience, orderly, content to stare steadfastly at nothing, deriving no satisfaction for their weakness but the sense of being as near as it was humanly possible to be to the scene of a tragedy.

  

  Edgar Wallace
  • Patience
  • Tragedy
  • Satisfaction

• 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