William Benton Clulow Quotes

If solitude deprives of the benefit of advice, it also excludes from the mischief of flattery. But the absence of others' applause is generally supplied by the flattery of one's own breast.

William Benton Clulow

• Solitude
• Benefits
• Flattery
• Mischief
• Applause

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• I'm very proud of my records, but my most natural creative tendencies have been in live performing. There's a beautiful element to recording and making records, but I've always felt a little shy with it.

  

  Langhorne Slim
  • Live
  • Beautiful
  • Proud

• I love what I do.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Love
  • I Love

• My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Hand

• But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Respect
  • Talk
  • Accept

• Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Reality
  • Vision
  • Leadership

• 'Never confuse sitting on your side with being on your side.'

  

  Ian Paisley

• Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Happy

• Gassoon, for all his lore, subscribed to a common fallacy: he assumed that all those whom he encountered appraised him in the same terms as he did himself.

  

  Jack Vance

• The Mandelbrot set covers a small space yet carries a large number of different implications. Is it a fitting epitaph? Absolutely.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Different
  • Small
  • Space

• I love being around people that are smarter than me, that think faster than me. So even if you're a dork, and you wear stupid clothes, and you make a fool of yourself, and everyone makes fun of you, and you're just an idiot-I don't care about the context. I don't care. If you're genius and I recognize it, I kind of dig that.

  

  Courtney Love
  • People
  • Fun
  • Stupid

• I don't have money. Monsanto has money.

  

  Joel Salatin
  • Money

• People ask why there are so few female artists who succeed. It's because women are not ready to sacrifice as much as men. Women want a man, they want a family, they want to have children, they want to be loved, and to be an artist. And they can't; it's impossible.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

  

  Don Marquis

• I grew up in the suburbs outside of Newcastle, and there were blank walls, and there was a lot of space to imagine - the fields and the motorways - so I used to sit and talk to myself as different people.

  

  Andrea Riseborough
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I try my best, but at the same time, I try not to let being out with someone affect my everyday life. Like, if I want to go out and grab a smoothie with a friend who's a male, I'm not gonna let the paparazzi stop me from doing that and living my life and just being a normal person.

  

  Kendall Jenner
  • Life
  • Time
  • Stop

• I don't know anybody who's any good who isn't nuts.

  

  Martin Landau
  • Good

• I think I've claimed the right to be any version of me that I want to be.

  

  Dierks Bentley

• A fully developed psychology will not exist until reincarnation is accepted as a fact.

  

  Jane Roberts
  • Psychology

• The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It's intoxicating.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Music
  • Always
  • Crowd

• I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.

  

  Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Life
  • Important

• The audience has spoken. They want stories. They’re dying for them. They’re rooting for us to give the right thing. And they will talk about it, binge on it, carry it with them on the bus and to the hairdresser, force it on their friends, tweet, blog, Facebook, make fan pages, silly GIFs, and god knows what else about it..

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • God
  • Friends
  • Giving

• I just have a hunch that Stalin is not that kind of man. Harry Hopkins says he's not and that he doesn't want anything except security for his own country, and I think that if I give him everything I possibly can and ask nothing from him in return, noblesse oblige, he won't try to annex anything and will work with me for a world of democracy and peace.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • World
  • Work
  • Country

• If solitude deprives of the benefit of advice, it also excludes from the mischief of flattery. But the absence of others' applause is generally supplied by the flattery of one's own breast.

  

  William Benton Clulow
  • Solitude
  • Benefits
  • Flattery