Noel John Whittaker Quotes

A problem is an opportunity to learn.

Noel John Whittaker

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• Due to my hectic work schedule, I hardly have enough sleep, and my skin tends to look dull. Facial masks are my savior, as it helps to brighten and hydrate my skin.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Work
  • Sleep
  • Look

• A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.

  

  Q-Tip
  • People
  • Good
  • Art

• You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Remember

• I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.

  

  Larry Wall
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Risk
  • Laugh
  • Looking

• I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Men
  • Laugh
  • Hardest

• We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

  

  C. Day Lewis
  • Write
  • Understand
  • Order

• The thing that grounds you, and the thing that really gives you a sense of wholeness, is your family, friends and your community. Those are the things that can mirror back to you what you're experiencing, and can affirm to you that the stories you are telling are true.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • Family
  • Friends
  • True

• It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside world. But we have practised within our own boundaries something that amounts to race imperialism.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • World
  • Long
  • Imperialism

• In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Nations
  • Many
  • Belonging

• I'm a big believer that your life is basically a sum of all the choices you make. The better your choices, the better opportunity to lead a happy life.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Opportunity

• Chan Marshall has one of the most haunting, wrenching voices of any current singer, male or female.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Most
  • Singer
  • Voices

• All our symbols have the same purpose; words are merely the symbols we use most commonly. The function of words in human thought is to stand for things which are not present to the senses, and allow the mind to manipulate them-things, concepts, ideas, everything that does not have a physical reality in front of us now.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Mind
  • Reality
  • Words

• Warhol was questioning the capitalist society.

  

  James Rosenquist
  • Society

• Even just a few spices or ethnic condiments that you can keep in your pantry can turn your mundane dishes into a culinary masterpiece.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson

• I was raised Christian; I was raised in the South where everybody's raised Christian, but at this point, I'm 41 years old, and I've been an atheist, at this point, a little more than half my life.

  

  Jason Aaron
  • Life
  • Christian
  • Atheist

• I didn't get into the music business because somebody made me take piano lessons, you know. I got into music because I was a natural writer and had a lot of curiosity about sound.

  

  Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • Music
  • Business
  • Curiosity

• I consider myself more of a writer than I do a director.

  

  Lena Waithe

• Our children need to see and hear about more black role models in many fields so they can make better choices.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Children
  • Choices
  • Role Models

• My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • People
  • Mother
  • Education

• I think Alone in the Dark was too much an action creature movie than a horror creature movie.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Movie
  • Action
  • Alone

• As she sat in the low-backed carThe man at the turn-pike barNever asked for the tollBut just rubbed his auld pollAnd looked after the low-backed car.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • She
  • Car

• A problem is an opportunity to learn.

  

  Noel John Whittaker
  • Opportunity
  • Problem
  • Learn