Benjamin Smith Quotes

As human beings, we have developed a specific number of emotional reactions that are triggered by conditions or situations.

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• I'm never comfortable being in front of the camera, but I've learned how to deal with it.

  

  Alex Wolff

• We hear a great deal of lamentation these days about writers having all taken themselves to the colleges and universities where they live decorously instead of going out and getting firsthand information about life. The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot. The writer's business is to contemplate experience, not to be merged in it.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Life
  • Great
  • Live

• I don't feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you've got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don't buy too much.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Feels
  • Clothes
  • Comfortable

• I haven't told anyone this before, but when I was a teenager... I actually thought I was turning into a boy, and I didn't really care. It didn't bother me at all.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Care
  • Teenager
  • Boys

• If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Study
  • Differences
  • Schoolmen

• In order to please others, we loose our hold on our life's purpose.

  

  Epictetus
  • Loose
  • In Order
  • Life's Purpose

• The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Impression
  • Consequence
  • Deceived

• I read Twitter all the time, even though I rarely tweet.

  

  will.i.am
  • Tweet

• I don't think there's any way we can save the polar bears.

  

  Will Steger
  • Thinking
  • Way
  • Sea

• If we never had any storms, we couldn't appreciate the sunshine.

  

  Dale Evans
  • Never
  • Appreciate
  • Sunshine

• And I'm sorry for us The dinosaurs roam the earth The sky turns green.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Earth
  • Green
  • Sorry

• I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • City
  • Desire
  • Chicago

• Dear me! We Tooks and Brandybucks, we can't live long on the heights.' 'No,' said Merry. 'I can't. Not yet, at any rate. But at least, Pippin, we can now see them, and honour them. It is best to love first what you are fitted to love, I suppose: you must start somewhere and have some roots, and the soil of the Shire is deep. Still there are things deeper and higher; and not a gaffer could tend his garden in what he calls peace but for them, whether he knows about them or not.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Peace
  • Best
  • Garden

• In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Break
  • Human Beings
  • Presence

• Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase! Yet we keep a repugnance to rheumatism and other painful effects when presented in our personal experience.

  

  George Eliot
  • Experience
  • Language
  • Distance

• As soon as one knows one is going to die, childhood is over.... So one can be grown up at seven. Then, I believe most human beings forget what they have understood, recover another sort of childhood that can last all their lives. It is not a true childhood but a kind of forgetting. Desires and anxieties are there, preventing you from having access to the essential truth.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • Truth
  • Childhood
  • Human Beings

• Сertainly there are people for whom anti-depression medication has allowed them to use difficulty to wake up, and I don't deny that at all, but as usual with us human beings, we've overdone it. We are self-medicating ourselves away from the great awakening moments, and losing our coping skills and losing wake-up calls.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Skills
  • Human Beings
  • Wake Up

• As human beings, we have developed a specific number of emotional reactions that are triggered by conditions or situations.

  

  Benjamin Smith
  • Human Beings
  • Triggered
  • Emotional Reactions