Bernard Berenson Quotes

It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.

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• As a team, we have a lot of work ahead of us in FY16 and beyond, but I am confident that, working together, we will make Microsoft a leader in the mobile-first, cloud-first world.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
  • World
  • Work
  • Together

• Hollywood's got its own particular environment.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Environment
  • Hollywood
  • Got

• I hate the domestic life.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Life
  • Hate
  • Domestic

• Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Life
  • Respect
  • Short

• For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • People
  • Better
  • Short

• I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Know
  • Wisdom
  • Wealth

• Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Work
  • Speak
  • Yourself

• It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • More
  • Praise
  • Train

• Your goal as a candidate - define others before they can define you.

  

  Dana Perino
  • You
  • Goal
  • Others

• It's the weird thing Eton does - you're at school next to lords and earls and, in my case, Prince William, so you end up being used to dealing with those sorts of people.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• I don't let many things that are superficial keep me in a box.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Me
  • Things
  • Keep

• I feel there are tone singers, and there are more vocal gymnastics singers. And I think that's amazing when people can do that, but I think there's room for the tone singers. And there aren't a lot of them.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Think
  • Amazing

• I can go to any restaurant without a reservation, but while I'm there, everyone's gonna be staring.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Everyone
  • Restaurant

• Once your dream is fulfilled you face another one.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Dream
  • You
  • Face

• When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Best
  • Competition
  • Equal

• I'm really a normal person.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Person
  • Really
  • Normal

• Young Asian males are nine times as likely as white youth to belong to a gang and Hispanic youth are 19 times more likely. A disproportionate share of Hispanic young and poor are thus assimilating into a misogynistic, rebellious, youth sub-culture of drugs, gangs, crime, contempt for formal education, and hostility to police.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Culture
  • Education
  • Police

• Besides, REAL computers have a rename() system call.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Real

• Cars used to have such dashing shapes, like airplanes, back when gas was cheap, twenty-five cents a gallon.

  

  John Updike

• If Adele's seen as boring, then I'm happy to be boring as well.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Happy
  • Boring
  • Then

• I think the job of leadership is to expand what can be talked about and to get consensus on the nature of the problem, and that is most of the job. Because once you do that, once you have diagnosis, treatment options are obvious.

  

  Jim Cooper
  • Job
  • Nature
  • Leadership

• You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Work
  • Know
  • Acting

• I think we should all call ourselves feminists.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Think
  • Call
  • Feminists

• It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.

  

  Bernard Berenson
  • Job
  • Happy
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