Boris Sidis Quotes

Not purpose but chance is at the heart of mental life.

Boris Sidis

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• Chance
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• Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • People
  • Time
  • Language

• I want to play interesting women.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Women
  • Want
  • Interesting

• The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Great
  • Business
  • Lesson

• Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Experience
  • Road
  • Acceptance

• It's the 21st century. It's untenable to suggest that women had no significance and no interest and that just because they didn't vote they had no relevance to the course of our history.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Women
  • History
  • Vote

• We have seen the damage already caused to the music industry and we have to continue to make the public and government bodies globally aware of the damage that will happen if DVD piracy is not brought under control.

  

  Callum McDougall
  • Music
  • Control
  • Government

• Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • Opportunity
  • Leadership

• When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.

  

  Ice T
  • Business
  • Start
  • Fruit

• Never worry about bad press: All that matters is if they spell your name right.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Bad
  • Worry
  • Name

• There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Long
  • Beautiful

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

  

  Dana Perino
  • You
  • Goal
  • Others

• I'm a huge fan of Flying Lotus. I like The XX's stuff.

  

  Flume
  • Like
  • Flying
  • Fan

• I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Kids
  • Man
  • Film

• I don't find touring very creative. There's not much time to yourself with your instruments.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Time
  • Yourself
  • Creative

• I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Music
  • Piano
  • Got

• Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.

  

  Felix Mendelssohn
  • Music
  • God
  • Country

• My father is from Bosnia, and my mother is from Croatia, but I was born in Sweden.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Born

• It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Personal
  • Aesthetic
  • My Own

• The heart of the gameplay is still about choice and consequence, which is what I've been doing since the '80s.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Heart
  • Doing
  • Choice

• Once you realize there is a Higher Power, you know you're not alone, that you have a purpose on the planet. You control your destiny instead of letting the day lead you where it may. You seize it, take it and lead it.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • May
  • Power
  • Control

• Before the eyes can see, they must be incapable of tears. Before the ear can hear, it must have lost its sensitiveness. Before the voice can speak in the presence of the Masters, it must have lost the power to wound. Before the soul can stand in the presence of the Masters, its feet must be washed in the blood of the heart.

  

  Mabel Collins
  • Heart
  • Power
  • Soul

• Of all literary exercitations, whether designed for the use or entertainment of the world, there are none of so much importance, or so immediately our concern, as those which let us into the knowledge of our own nature. Others may exercise the understanding or amuse the imagination; but these only can improve the heart and form the human mind to wisdom.

  

  William Warburton
  • Heart
  • Understanding
  • Imagination

• I hear from all different people, not just people like me, or lesbians. It be straight people, it be grown men, it be grown women, people that have been sick or depressed that say, 'Oh, you made me want to go do what I want to do for myself and chase my dreams.' That's my purpose.

  

  Young M.A
  • People
  • Different
  • Purpose

• Not purpose but chance is at the heart of mental life.

  

  Boris Sidis
  • Heart
  • Purpose
  • Chance