Edward Bernays Quotes

Men people are rarely aware of the real reasons which motivate their actions.

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• I've always dreamed of having a large family.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Family
  • Always
  • Large Family

• I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.

  

  Barbara Fialho
  • Up
  • Eyes
  • Water

• Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Great
  • Small

• We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Better
  • Mental Illness

• I just really like Houston despite its craziness. There is a sense of energy and a kind of excitement, 'We're going places and God knows what'll happen next.' It's very interesting. It's very exciting.

  

  Gail Collins
  • God
  • Interesting
  • Energy

• I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Poetry

• I never believe in going to America with my show reel and knocking on every agent's door. I couldn't even do it. I'm way too insecure and too proud.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Believe
  • America
  • Proud

• 'That guy was a homo - as sure as you're alive.' - Robertson, describing a caller during his appearance on the Larry King Show (Windows Media Video)

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Guy
  • King

• History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • History
  • Chaos

• Luxury, that baneful poison, has unstrung and enfeebled her sons.

  

  Abigail Adams

• Instead of asking 'what do I want from life?', a more powerful question is, 'what does life want from me?'

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Question
  • Powerful

• There is something in Poetry beyond Prose-reason; there are Mysteries in it not to be explained, but admired.

  

  Edward Young
  • Poetry

• In the constitution of that rational animal I see no virtue which is opposed to justice, but I see a virtue which is opposed to love of pleasure, and that is temperance.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Justice
  • Animal

• All dese governments and dis this and that, these people that say they're here to help, why them say you cannot smoke the herb? Herb... herb is a plant, you know? And when me check it, me can't find no reason. All them say is, 'it make you rebel'. Against what?

  

  Bob Marley
  • People
  • Why
  • Help

• He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

  

  Chanakya
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • May

• Being in L.A. has definitely given me the opportunity to experience how my music sounds in real life because I can drive around and listen to the mixes, which I couldn't do in New York. I get to feel how a song works in combination with a sunset and a drive through the mountains.

  

  Dave Sitek Jane's Addiction
  • Life
  • Music
  • Real

• If someone gives you an opportunity, you better maximize it so that he wants to give you the next one.

  

  Adena Friedman
  • Opportunity

• Fear, greed and hope have destroyed more portfolio value than any recession or depression we have ever been through.

  

  James O'Shaughnessy
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • Value

• If I suddenly disappear from the music world, you might see Hikaru Utada working as a helper at some inn in Atami.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • World
  • Music

• In a marketplace where it's so easy to produce products, where your competitors can essentially match you on the product itself, you need to have something else. You need to have an added value, and that added value is the identity, the idea behind your brand.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Value
  • Identity
  • Brand

• For if God be on our side, what matter maketh it who be against us, be they bishops, cardinals, popes, or whatsoever names they will?

  

  William Tyndale
  • Matter
  • Pope
  • Bishops

• Men people are rarely aware of the real reasons which motivate their actions.

  

  Edward Bernays
  • Men
  • Actions
  • Reasons