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
  • Yourself
  • Speak

• 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

• 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

• A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange.... Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

  

  Aristotle
  • Society
  • State
  • Noble

• There are no standards for computer programmers and no group to certify them.

  

  Dave Parnas

• Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Music
  • Heaven
  • Reached

• I was a happy person before marriage. I'm definitely happier after marriage.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Happy
  • Marriage
  • Person

• I was brought up in the countryside in Ireland and would go bonkers if I couldn't escape the city. I like to wake and hear birds tweeting, not the low drone of traffic.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • Up
  • City

• Funk is the absence of any and everything you can think of, but the very essence of all that is. And saying that, I'm saying funk is anything that we create in our minds that we want to do, what we want to be, but we don't have the resources.

  

  Bootsy Collins

• 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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