Cary Grant Quotes

Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.

Cary Grant

• Recognition
• Snobbery
• Failings

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• Even the best scientists are often insecure and feel the need for recognition.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Best
  • Need
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• The power of celebrity backing has been crucial. I would say that 90 percent of our brand recognition comes from celebrities wearing my pieces.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • Power
  • Celebrity
  • Brand

• The new, though engaging at times, may often start as offensive to us. The latter is often proof of the worth of this, while in the long run it will receive more recognition, than some, of what we liked so much in the beginning.

  

  Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
  • Long
  • May
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• Many people who gain recognition and fame shape their lives by overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, only to be catapulted into new social realities over which they have less control and manage badly. Indeed, the annals of the famous and infamous are strewn with individuals who were both architects and victims of their life courses.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • People
  • Life
  • Control

• No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error.

  

  Alexander Lowen
  • Learning
  • Recognition
  • Error

• There’s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.

  

  Dorothy Salisbury Davis
  • Snobbery

• The starting point is the recognition that throughout history, religion has been a cause of bloodshed, and it remains so today. Because religion has contributed to the world's problems, it must develop specific and practical ways to help solve those problems.

  

  John C. Danforth
  • Today
  • Problem
  • Helping

• All thought begins with the recognition that something is out of place.

  

  Plato
  • Place
  • Recognition
  • Begins

• Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger, or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment, which may become injurious for the individual and for the community.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Desire
  • Better
  • Individual

• The beginning of philosophy is the recognition of the conflict between opinions.

  

  Epictetus
  • Philosophy
  • Opinions
  • Recognition

• If our free society is to endure, those who govern must recognize human dignity and accept the enforcement of constitutional limitations on their power conceived by the Framers . . . . Such recognition will not come from a technical understanding of the organs of government, or the new forms of wealth they administer. It requires something different, something deeper-a personal confrontation with the wellsprings of our society.

  

  William J. Brennan, Jr.
  • Different
  • Understanding
  • Dignity

• The goal ever recedes from us. The greater the progress the greater the recognition of our unworthiness. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Goal
  • Victory
  • Satisfaction

• Every man, however obscure, however far removed from the general recognition, is one of a group of men impressible for good, and impressible for evil, and it is in the nature of things that he cannot really improve himself without in some degree improving other men.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Evil
  • Recognition
  • Improving

• The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Failings
  • Corrects
  • Best Fortune

• Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Mood
  • Recognition
  • Toleration

• I feel there should have been some recognition of the Spice Girls at this year's 25th anniversary. We flew the flag for Britain around the globe in the 1990s and we achieved a hell of a lot.

  

  Mel C Spice Girls
  • Recognition
  • Britain
  • Spice Girls

• The recognition of sin is the beginning of salvation.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Sin
  • Salvation
  • Recognition

• 'Daydream' brought us to the top of the heap of the indie-college market and recognition by all of our peers; 'Daydream' kind of capped off everything we set out to do when we started as a band, in terms of, like, wow, wouldn't it be great to make a record that a lot of people liked and listened to?

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Band
  • Recognition
  • Started

• Conscious auto-suggestion, made with confidence, faith, and perseverance realizes itself automatically, in all matters within reason.

  

  Emile Coue
  • Faith
  • Reason
  • Confidence

• It's impossible to tell you what I'm going to do except to say that I expect to make the best movie ever made.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Made
  • Impossible

• To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature.

  

  Plutarch
  • Human Nature
  • Commit
  • Conduct

• Much of the message that I try to put across to students is that they have to figure out what they really like to do and find a way to do that as an adult for their jobs. A lot of people have jobs they don't like, and it makes for very unhappy people. So I tell them if you like to write, or run around, or dig in the dirt, then find a job that will allow you to do that, and you'll be happy.

  

  Kadir Nelson
  • People
  • Writing
  • Trying

• Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.

  

  Cary Grant
  • Recognition
  • Snobbery
  • Failings